Boiled raisin bread
1 loaf
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | cup | Raisins |
| 1½ | cup | Water |
| ¼ | cup | Butter or margarine |
| ¾ | cup | Lightly packed brown sugar |
| 1 | Egg, well beaten | |
| 1½ | cup | Flour |
| ½ | cup | Raisin water |
| 1 | teaspoon | Soda |
| 1 | teaspoon | Nutmeg |
| 1 | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| ½ | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| ½ | cup | Chopped walnuts, optional |
Directions
Directions Simmer raisins in water for 20 minutes. Drain raisins and save ½ cup of raisin water.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream butter, sugar and egg together. Dissolve soda in the ½ cup of raisin water. Aift ½ cup of the flour over the raisins. Measure and sift remaining dry ingredients together and add alternately with raisin water to the butter sugar mixture. Add floured raisins, vanilla and nuts last. Turn batter into greased 4 x 8 loaf pan and bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes or until done.