Boiling Water Cake
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Put Crisco and sugar into a basin and pour boiling water over them.
Let stand till cold, then add the well-beaten egg.
Sift in flour, salt, baking powder, and nutmeg.
Add citron peel, raisins, and lemon extract, and mix well.
Turn into a greased and floured small square tin and bake in a moderate oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for half an hour.
Cool and cover with boiled frosting.
Original recipe, verbatim
Boiling Water Cake
1 cupful boiling water 1 cupful sultana raisins
1 cupful sugar 2K cupfuls flour
}4 cupful Crisco }i teaspoonful salt
1 egg 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
j4 cupful chopped candied yi teaspoonful grated nutmeg
citron peel ^ teaspoonful lemon extract
Put Crisco and sugar into basin, pour boiling water over them;
let stand till cold, then add egg well beaten, sift in flour,
salt, baking powder, and nutmeg, add peel, raisins, and lemon
extract, and mix well. Turn into greased and floured small
square tin and bake in moderate oven half hour. Cool and
cover with boiled frosting.
Sufficient for one small cake.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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