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Recipe Old Fashioned Spice Cake (Cake)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Preparing/Cooking:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Grease and flour two 8 inch pans.
- In a saucepan, simmer the raisins in the water on medium low heat.
- In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and shortening until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice.
- Blend these dry ingredients into the sugar mixture.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Strain the raisins.
- Discard the raisin pulp.
- Add water to the raisin juice to make 3/4 cup liquid, and add to the batter.
- Add the chopped nuts.
- Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top springs back when lightly touched.
- Cool the cake on a wire rack, and frost.
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