American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Cake Without Eggs

Original Recipe

Beat together one teacupful of butter and three teacupfuls of sugar, and when quite light stir in one pint of sifted flour. Add to this one pound of raisins seeded and chopped, then mixed with a cup of sifted flour one-teaspoonful of nutmeg, one teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon and lastly one pint of thick sour cream or milk in which a teaspoonful of soda is dissolved. Bake immediately in buttered tins one hour in a moderate oven.

Ingredients

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  • 1 teacupful of butter and three teacupfuls of sugar
  • 1 pint of sifted flour
  • 1 pound of raisins seeded and chopped
  • 1 teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon and lastly one pint of thick sour cream or milk in which a teaspoonful of soda is dissolved

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Beat together one teacupful of butter and three teacupfuls of sugar, and when quite light stir in one pint of sifted flour.

  2. 2

    Add to this one pound of raisins seeded and chopped, then mixed with a cup of sifted flour one-teaspoonful of nutmeg, one teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon and lastly one pint of thick sour cream or milk in which a teaspoonful of soda is dissolved.

  3. 3

    Bake immediately in buttered tins one hour in a _moderate_ oven.

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