Spice Cake No. 2

Ingredients

• 1 cup of butter
• 2 cups of raisins
• 1% cups of sugar
• 1 cup of sour milk
• 2 tsps. of cinnamon
• 1 tsp. of cloves
• % tsp. of nutmeg
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups of flour
• 1 tsp. of soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter with sugar and yolks of eggs, then add soda dissolved in sour milk, raisins, cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg and flour, and lastly the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth.

2. 2

   Butter a pan, put in the batter and bake for 1 hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of German cooking and baking (1922) by Lina Wachtelborn Meier, page 143. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE No. 2. 1 cup of butter 2 cups of raisins 1% cups of sugar 2 tsps. of cinnamon 1 cup of sour milk 1 tsp. of cloves 1 tsp. of soda % tsp. of nutmeg 3 eggs 2 cups of flour

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