Boiled Raisin Cake
Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten card
From Virgiline handcastle.
Ingredients
- 1C raisins
- 1C water
- 1C W sugar
- ½ C shorten
- ½ t cinnamon - nutmeg - cloves vanilla
- 1C water for boiling raisins and a separate 1 C boiling water on the soda line
- 2 C flour not sifted
Directions
- Boil 1C raisins in 1C water 20 mins
- 1 Round t soda in 1C boiling water
- Then add raisins - just soft dough
Timing: 20 mins; just soft dough
Temperature: Boil raisins; boiling water
Equipment: saucepan or boiling pot, heat card, mixing vessel and utensil
As written
Boiled Raisin Cake [Virgiline or Virgilime] handcastle Boil 1 C Raisins in 1 C water 20 mins 1 C W sugar 1/2 C shorten 1/2 t cinnamon - nutmeg - cloves Vanilla 1 Round t soda in 1 C boiling Water 2 C flour not sifted Then add Raisins - quite soft dough
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