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CANADA WAR CAKE (without Butter, Eggs, or Milk)

A historical recipe from Better Meals for Less Money, by Marietta McPherson Greenough (1917).

A historical recipe

Better Meals for Less Money, by Marietta McPherson Greenough (1917). Project Gutenberg eBook #34509.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From Better Meals for Less Money, by Marietta McPherson Greenough (1917). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #34509 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34509). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

Canada. Associated with Canada by a demonym leading its title: CANADA (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour Mix sugar

Method

  1. 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 cup shortening 1/2 teaspoon mace 1 cup boiling water 1/4 teaspoon clove 2 cups seeded raisins 1 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups flour Mix sugar, shortening, water, raisins, and salt;
  2. boil five minutes;
  3. cool, and add spices, soda, and flour sifted together;
  4. beat well;
  5. pour into a greased, paper-lined bread pan, and bake in a slow oven one hour.