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Grandma Adeline's 1940's War Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup white raisins
  • 2 cups water
  • 1/2 cup lard
  • 1 3/4 cups white flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp cloves
  • Dash baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 egg

Instructions

  1. Boil raisins in water for 10 minutes. Add lard. Let melt. Sift dry ingredients together and add to raisins/lard in pan. Add egg. Pour into greased loaf pans. Bake for 45 min to 1 hour at 350 degrees.

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