Gram's Poor Man's Cake (Eggless & Milkless) |
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Prep Time: 120 Minutes Cook Time: 60 Minutes |
Ready In: 180 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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From an old cookbook that belonged to Gram. It had section in it called Depression Era Cooking! Ingredients:
1 cup sugar |
1 cup cold black coffee |
1/2 cup shortening |
1 pinch salt |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
2 cups flour |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (your choice) or 1 teaspoon brandy extract (your choice) or 1 teaspoon cherry extract (your choice) |
raisins or currants or pineapple or cherries or nuts or candied peel or cranberries or diced apple |
Directions:
1. Bring to a boil the fruit, nuts, extract, salt, sugar, shortening and coffee.
2. Continue to cook until raisins swell and liquid becomes syrupy; cool completely.
3. Stir together the flour, baking soda and baking powder.
4. Add to fruit mixture and combine thoroughly.
5. Pour into a greased 10-inch tube pan and bake at 325° about an hour (if heavy with fruit). Check with tester to be sure cake is done.
6. Remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
7. At this point I soak a clean piece of cheesecloth in liquor; brandy, rum, even wine.
8. Wrap the cake with the cloth and in foil-store in COLD place-check often, resoak as needed.
9. There are no exact measurements for the fruit in this recipe-the original recipe stated fruits, nuts & peels-whatever you have on hand .
10. This was done because it was wartime and things for fancy baking were not always available.
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