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WW2 War Cake
WW2 War Cake Ingredients: sugars, brown water, bottled, generic raisins, seeded oil, olive, salad or cooking spices, cinnamon, ground spices, cloves, ground wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched salt, table leav...
WW2 War Cake
Ingredients:
sugars, brown
water, bottled, generic
raisins, seeded
oil, olive, salad or cooking
spices, cinnamon, ground
spices, cloves, ground
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
salt, table
leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
leavening agents, baking soda
nuts, walnuts, english
Directions:
Place the brown sugar, water, raisins.
oil, cinnamon, and cloves in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a boil.
Cook gently for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat and let cool until the mixture is comfortably warm to your finger.
While the mixture is cooling, preheat t he oven to 350F.
Grease and flour an 8x4-inch baking pan.
Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
Add them to the cooled sugar mixture, beating until no drifts of flour are visible and the batter is smooth.
Stir in the walnuts.
Spread evenly in the baking pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a broomstraw inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto a rack to cool completely.
Notes: For a good glaze, even if it is a 90's addition, save back a bit of the hot spiced water.
Mix with confectioner's sugar, a drop of vanilla, and a pinch salt.
Glaze the cake while hot.
Ingredients:
sugars, brown
water, bottled, generic
raisins, seeded
oil, olive, salad or cooking
spices, cinnamon, ground
spices, cloves, ground
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
salt, table
leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
leavening agents, baking soda
nuts, walnuts, english
Directions:
Place the brown sugar, water, raisins.
oil, cinnamon, and cloves in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a boil.
Cook gently for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat and let cool until the mixture is comfortably warm to your finger.
While the mixture is cooling, preheat t he oven to 350F.
Grease and flour an 8x4-inch baking pan.
Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
Add them to the cooled sugar mixture, beating until no drifts of flour are visible and the batter is smooth.
Stir in the walnuts.
Spread evenly in the baking pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a broomstraw inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto a rack to cool completely.
Notes: For a good glaze, even if it is a 90's addition, save back a bit of the hot spiced water.
Mix with confectioner's sugar, a drop of vanilla, and a pinch salt.
Glaze the cake while hot.