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Dora’s Spice Cake

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Here’s a mysterious handwritten recipe from the Red Plastic Box collection. I think it’s for a spice cake. What do you think?

handwritten recipe for spice cake from dora

Honestly, I don’t know how long to bake this, or in which pan to bake. I’m not even sure if it the title is Spice Leake or Spike Bake!

But I love that it’s from Dora, and that it’s considered fine!

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Spice Cake

Ingredients

  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup sour milk
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon cloves
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Cream butter and sugar and add beaten eggs. 

  2. Sift all dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk.

Recipe Notes

I save part of the egg whites for icing and use part lard for the shortening. Dora.

(This is fine. )

 

Butter Icing

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The recipe for Butter Icing came from the Red Plastic Box Recipe Collection. This makes enough to top one cake.

Butter Icing

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Butter Icing

Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 cups confectioner's sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. Cream butter until soft.
  2. Add sugar gradually.
  3. When mixture begins to get stiff, add milk drop by drop.
  4. Add vanilla.

Recipe Notes

Spread makes enough to top one cake.

Angel Food Cake No. 779

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Here is an angel food cake recipe from the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company. It was found in the Red Plastic Box Collection.

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Angel Food Cake No. 779

Ingredients

  • 1 cup cake flour sifted
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar sifted
  • 1 1/4 cup egg whites about 10
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon crea m of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

  1. Sift flour with 1/2 cup sugar. 3 times.
  2. Beat egg whites until foamy.
  3. Add salt, cream of tartar, and extract. Beat until egg whites stand in peaks when beater is lifted.
  4. Gradually fold 1 cup sifted sugar into beaten egg whites, using about 2 tablespoons at a time.
  5. Carefully fold in flour and sugar mixtures, sifting a small amount at a time over mixture.
  6. Pour batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan.
  7. Cut with knife or spatula through batter, making a complete circle through mixture.
  8. Bake in a preheated oven at 325 about 1 hour.
  9. Remove cake from oven. Invert it and allow it to stand inverted about 1 our. Remove cake from pan.

Recipe Notes

  • Use a 10-inch tube cake pan.
  • No. 779 (This is on the flip side of Strawberry Refrigerator Cake)
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Prune Cake

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This recipe is from Cross Country Cookery Cookbook. The recipe came from Grace Estes, Como, Miss and Viola Davis, Como, Mississippi.

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Prune Cake

Course Dessert

Ingredients

  • 1 cup wesson oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cup sugar
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon soda
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 cup prunes cooked and cut up
  • 2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoon cloves
  • 2 teaspoon alspice
  • 2 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cup flour
  • 1 cup nuts chopped

Instructions

  1. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. 
  2. Pour into 10" greased stem pan. Bake @ 325-350 for 60-75 minutes.

Butterless Milkless Eggless Cake

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This recipe was found in the Red Plastic Box Collection. No pan size is given so I did a little sleuthing…which means I googled to see if there was a similar recipe online.

This is almost double the ingredients of the recipe found at All Recipes which calls for an 8 or 9-inch square cake pan and bakes for 20 minutes.

Given that this is almost double the ingredients and baking time, I’m going to guess this would work in a 9×13 pan.

Butterless Milkless Eggless Cake

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Butterless Milkless Eggless Cake

Course Dessert

Ingredients

  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 heaping tablespoons shortening
  • 1 pound raisins
  • 1 heaping tespoon soda
  • 1 heaping teaspoon salt
  • 1 level teaspoon cloves
  • 1 level teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 level teaspoon nutmeg
  • 3 cups flour
  • Nuts

Instructions

  1. Boil sugar, water, shortening, raisins, and water 25 minutes. When cool, add remaining ingredients.

  2. Bake 375 for 35 to 45 minutes.