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Old Fashioned Pork Cake

Here's how you make Old Fashioned Pork Cake
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  • Servings: 24
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 3h
  • The following recipe serves 24 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 pint brewed coffee (boiling)
  • 1 pound salt pork (minus the rind, finely chopped)
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 3 large eggs (lightly beaten)
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 pound raisins (chopped)
  • 1 pound raisins (whole)
  • 2 pounds currants
  • 1/2 pound citron (chopped)
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 5 cups pastry flour
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Heat your oven to 325° Fahrenheit.

  • Step 2: Chop the salt pork; discarding the rind.

  • Step 3: In a large bowl, pour 1 pint of boiling coffee over the chopped salt pork. Let it cool.

  • Step 4: Next, in another bowl, pour in the molasses. Add the baking soda, whipping it in. Add this mixture to the large bowl.

  • Step 5: Add in the test of the ingredients, mixing it all together.

  • Step 6: Bake this in three bread pans for 3 hours. Check it during cooking to make sure it is not burning.


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