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I'm not fond of raisins, and I was wondering if you think dried
cranberries /craisins would work?
Thank you
It’s your cake, add what your family will like. Dried cranberries, pineapple or apple.
The flavor is sweet-spicy so if the contrast of the cranberries works for your pallette, it would be fine, like spiced cranberries. I add nuts when I make it is a more nutritious snack.
Can cooking oil be used instead of the shortening. Do not want to buy shortening for one recipe
The A&P grocery store had raisin cake baked in a loaf pan with a white frosting, it was my grandmother's favorite cake and very similar to this one. I found a recipe for it in the 1952 Good Housekeeping cookbook.
my Grandma had a recipe like this. It was called "Lead Cake" because when you picked it up it was heavy.
Do I need to make any changes in the amounts of certain ingredients or add anything to bake this at 5100 ft. altitude?
Yes, I remember that cake and I think I still have the recipe for it. We were poor but we didn't thik so. We always had enough of what we needed - but not always what we wanted. My sister's hand me down shoes fit her narrow feet but not my wider feet - tough.
This is a cake we have always made for the holidays. It truly is the best. I am now trying to get this working with Gluten free flour.
Agree w another reader.... my mother made this “ boiled cake”! Often at Christmas.