Grams Poor Mans Cake Eggless Milkless Recipes

Steps:

• Bring to a boil the fruit, nuts, extract, salt, sugar, shortening and coffee.
• Continue to cook until raisins swell and liquid becomes syrupy; cool completely.
• Stir together the flour, baking soda and baking powder.
• Add to fruit mixture and combine thoroughly.
• Pour into a greased 10-inch tube pan and bake at 325° about an hour (if heavy with fruit). Check with tester to be sure cake is done.
• Remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
• At this point I soak a clean piece of cheesecloth in liquor; brandy, rum, even wine.
• Wrap the cake with the cloth and in foil--store in COLD place--check often, resoak as needed.
• There are no exact measurements for the fruit in this recipe--the original recipe stated "fruits, nuts & peels-whatever you have on hand".
• This was done because it was wartime and things for fancy baking were not always available.

Steps:

• Stir together flour, cornstarch, baking soda, spices and salt.
• Cream sugar, oil, lemon juice and vanilla.
• Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, a little at a time, alternating with up to 1 cup of water.
• Mix briskly with fork until thoroughly blended.
• Pour into lightly greased and floured 8 or 9 inch square pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Let cool in pan.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 8 or 9 inch square cake pan.
• In a saucepan over medium high heat combine; the sugar, shortening, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, salt, raisins, and water bring to a boil and continue boiling for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda together. Add the flour mixture to the cooled raisin mixture. Stir until just combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 minutes.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together.
• Combine all the wet ingredients together in another bowl.
• Pour the liquid ingredients all at once into the dry ingredients, and beat until smooth.
• Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 20-25 minutes. Let cool in pan. When cool sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• Put water and raisins into a saucepan, bring to a boil, and turn off the heat. Allow to sit for 10 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Add butter or margarine to saucepan, and let the mixture sit until it reaches room temperature.
• Stir in the rest of the ingredients.
• Pour into an 8" by 8" pan or an 8" cake pan.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes in a 350 degree oven (until a toothpick comes out clean).
• Serve warm or cool.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350.
• Grease and flour 10 inch tube pan.
• In med.
• mixing bowl; combine flour, sugar, cocoa and mix well.
• In small bowl with wire whisk gradually beat water with mayonnaise until evenly combined; stir in vanilla.
• Then pour this mixture into dry ingredients and mix well.
• Spoon into prepared pans.
• Bake 45- 50 minutes or until center springs back.
• Cool cake for 10 minutes.
• Then remove from pan and cool completely on baking rack.
• When cool place on cake plate and dust with powdered sugar.

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepan, combine first seven ingredients. Bring to a boil. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool to room temperature. , In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add the raisin mixture. Pour into a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan., Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve with Hard Sauce (also found in Recipe Finder) if desired.