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Recipe: Heirloom Spice Cake (with nuts and raisins, Farm Journal, 1970's)

Desserts - Cakes
HEIRLOOM SPICE CAKE

2 cups sifted unbleached flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 cup butter or regular margarine
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 cup sour milk
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins
Sifted confectioners sugar (for dusting top)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Sift the flour, baking soda, salt and spices together and set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy using an electric mixer set at medium speed. Beat in the egg.

Add the dry ingredients alternately with the sour milk, beating well after each addition, using an electric mixer set at low speed.

Stir in the walnuts and raisins. Pour the batter into prepared baking pan.

Bake in the oven at 350 degree F for 40 minutes or until the cake tests done. Sprinkle with sifted confectioners sugar.

*To sour milk, place 1 tablespoon of vinegar in a measuring cup and add enough milk to make 1 cup.

Makes 1 (13x9-inch) cake
Source: The Farm Journal's Complete Home Baking Book, 1979
MsgID: 0110128
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