Inexpensive Spice Cake
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 2 cups brown sugar
- grated rind of lemon
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1 lb seeded raisins
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- dash cloves
- dash nutmeg
Instructions
- Boil raisins in 1½ cups water twenty minutes.
- Mix shortening, sugar, lemon rind, eggs and spices, add one cup flour then raisins drained but still hot. Then the other two cups flour and ½ cup of the water in which the raisins were boiled to which add 1 teaspoon bi-carbonate soda.
- Bake in gem pans in moderate oven. This makes 30 cakes which can be iced with white or chocolate icing.