Autumn Raisin Cake

Raisin Cake is one among those recipes that has been around around for the explanation that wooden cook dinner range of pioneer days.  One of my girl chums got this raisin cake recipe from her mother, who learned it from her mother who learned it from her mother and so on. It in actuality is from the olden’ days – and the autumn olden’ days at that – with spices of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. None of the substances require refrigeration and factual about a easy kitchen utensils are required. Can you picture it?  A girl named Myrtle brings her illustrious raisin cake to the native town sq. dance in October 1856. I have confidence about it used to be all handed by the discontinue of the night!

This cake no longer absolute best has history, but astonishing sort. The appropriate change I made to the recipe used to be substituting out one of the vital white flour for total wheat in favor of a heartier texture. You indubitably can recede as is! Either end result’s a delicious and moist “bar-love” cake with a itsy-bitsy crunch on top. It has turn out to be our unusual favorite and the particular segment? It takes less than 10 minutes to combine up and absolute best 30 to bake. Those pioneer females had fairly about a other chores to opt up accomplished!

Mates, I introduce to you the timeless autumn raisin cake. Advance on in to my kitchen!

The substances are easy. You in all likelihood dangle all of them on hand and as I acknowledged before, none of them require refrigeration. Flour, sugar, shortening, baking soda, spices and needless to voice, raisins. Ah, the raisin. It appears to be either you love the savory dinky dried grape or you don’t, but this cake takes the raisin to a total unusual level. You in actuality boil the raisins tender to map out every their coloration and sort. I don’t adore oatmeal raisin cookies, but I LOVE this raisin cake!

Attach 1 cup of raisins in a pot and pour in 1 cup of water. Easy! Let it boil for 5 minutes. Mighty of the water will seemingly be soaked up by the raisins.

Whereas you is inclined to be waiting, opt up your dry bowl ready. Stride together 3 cups flour (I get to make use of 2 cups white and 1 cup total wheat), 1 Tbsp baking soda and 1 tsp every of ground cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. While you is inclined to be going to grate your luxuriate in nutmeg, it is doubtless you’ll perchance absolute best need 1/2 tsp.

When the 5 minutes is up, turn the warmth off and mix in 1/2 cup shortening and  1 1/2 cups sugar till the shortening is melted and the sugar is dissolved.

Now the fun segment! Devour a effectively within the heart of your flour combination and pour within the unusual raisins. Lope it all together.

The cake batter will seemingly be very thick, so now we ought to add 1/4 cup water and while you is inclined to be at it, 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

Shuffle forward – sort it! This might occasionally teach nothing but excitement for what’s to shut aid. Spread it into your favorite huge casserole dish and bake it at 350 degrees for 25-Half-hour.

When accomplished, a toothpick will seemingly be orderly when inserted and the tip of the cake will seemingly be a crunchy golden brown. This cake is delicious hot, so if you happen to made it excited about yourself, get a fork!

If nonetheless, you’ve made it for a special ideal friend and even your native sq. dance? I mutter you’ll ought to stack them in neat squares on a shapely dinky platter…but trust me, no person will watch if there’s one missing 🙂 This cake also freezes wonderfully. Plan baked squares in freezer containers and relish frozen or thawed.

Now it is doubtless you’ll perchance glimpse why this autumn raisin cake recipe survived the 1800’s and has since been preferred for a protracted time. It’s suave, it’s easy, and it’s delicious.

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