Mother's dark cake
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Crisco |
| 2 | cups | Sugar |
| 1 | Box raisins(dark) | |
| 2 | teaspoons | Cinnamon |
| ½ | teaspoon | Cloves |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 4 | cups | Boiling water |
Directions
On top of stove, put all ingredients in pan and bring to a rolling boil, with no cover Remove from stove and add 4 tsps of fresh baking soda(it will fizz up) Cover now, and let it cool completely....... Remove cover and add 4 cups of flour, to the mixture, and mix it well Pour into 2 well greased and floured, loaf pans Bake at 350* for 1 hour cake is done when toothpick comes out clean
This is a very unusual and moist cake and needs no frosting....
Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by "Frank McGann" <uconnfan@...> on Sep 21, 1997