Raisin Cake

 

Ingredients

 1/2 pound flour sifted

3/5 pound sugar

pinch of salt

1 teaspoon baking pwder

1/4 pound butter

1/4 pound raisins

2 eggs

1 Tablespoon rum or bourbon

1/2 tea cup milk

Process

 1. Soak the raisins in the liquor for one hour. 

2. Sift dry ingredients. 

3. Separate eggs. 

4. Mix yolks with sugar. 

5. Beat the whites. 

6. Drain raisins and mix with flour, reserving the alcohol, add soft butter. 

7. Mix milk with the liquor, mixing lightly, and add the sugar and eggs, mixing well. 

8. Add the egg whites, folding them in. (Cue Moira and David). 

9. Butter a cake pan and bake mixture for 3 hours at 350 degrees.

Raisin Sauce

 Makes 2 cups

Ingredients

 1/2 cup brown sugar

1&1/2 teaspoons dry mustard

1&1/2 Tablespoons flour

1/2 cup seedless raisins

1/4 cup vinegar

1&3/4 cups water

Process

1. Combine dry ingredients in top of a double boiler and add vinegar and water. 

2. Cook 20 minutes over boiling water.