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Ingredients
| seedless raisins (packed): 2 cups |
| light brown sugar (packed): 1 cup |
| water: 1 cup (hot) |
| multipurpose shortening: 1/2 cup |
| salt: 1 tsp |
| ground cinnamon: 1/2 tsp |
| whole nutmeg: 1/2 tsp |
| whole cloves: 1/4 tsp |
| vanilla extract: 1 tsp |
| pastry flour: 2 cups |
| baking soda: 1 tsp |
Boiled Raisin Cake
Credit: Food.com
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Prep Time
10 min -
Cook Time
60 min -
Servings
10 serving(s)
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- In saucepan. place raisins, brown sugar, hot water, shortening, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
- Bring mixture to boiling point, cover and let simmer for 6 minutes.
- Cool to lukewarm and add vanilla.
- Add soda to flour and mix.
- Combine flour and raisin mixture well.
- Bake in buttered 9X5" loaf pan in 325° oven for 1-1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan.
- This cake improves with keeping.
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- NOTE--It can be a challenge to find pastry flour. Even well-stocked supermarkets seldom carry more varieties than cake flour, all-purpose flour (9% to 12% protein), and bread flour. If you can't find pastry flour, you can mix your own by combining cake flour and all-purpose flour in a ratio somewhere between two parts cake flour to one part all-purpose and one part cake flour to one part all-purpose.