Edith Roosevelt's Clove Cake
Recipe: #25620
February 09, 2017
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Tube/Bundt, Baby Shower, Brunch, Christmas, Easter, Potluck Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Flour, Spices, Kosher Dairy, more
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Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (262.6 g)
- Calories 705.3
- Total Fat - 21.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 11.5 g
- Cholesterol - 265.8 mg
- Sodium - 406 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 120.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.9 g
- Sugars - 78.9 g
- Protein - 14 g
- Calcium - 143.2 mg
- Iron - 3.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, beating well.
Step 2
Add molasses and soda , milk, and flour that has been sifted together with the spices.
Step 3
Beat well.
Step 4
Add raisins.(soaked in a cup of boiling water and
Step 5
1 tablespoon brandy to get plump,not in origanal recipe but they did that back in the day)
Step 6
Bake in greased 8-inch tube pan at 350 F for 45-55 minutes.
FOR THE TOPPING
Step 7
Brush the top with a little butter, and garnish with overlapping slices of crystallized ginger.
Tips
No special items needed.