Grandmothers Boiled Raisin Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Boil raisins in 2 cups of water for 15 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Add vegetable oil and cold water to the raisins.
• Mix sugar, flour, spices, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
• Add the raisin mixture, and stir till just mixed.
• Pour into a greased and floured 9 x 13 inch baking pan, and bake for one hour in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven. It is done if a toothpick comes out clean.

Steps:

• In a saucepan add raisins and water.
• Boil 15 minute.
• Drain keeping liquid.
• There should be 1 cup left over.
• If not add enough water to make 1 cup.
• Cool.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with water.
• starting and ending with dry ingredients.
• Add vanilla and stir in raisins.
• Pour into greased 9"x11" or 9"x13" pan.
• Bake 350 for 30-35 minute.
• Icing:.
• Brown butter and brown sugar.
• Add water.
• Beat in icing sugar until spreading constituency.
• Ice with above recipe or dimple icing.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 10 x 10 inch baking pan.
• In a large saucepan boil the raising with the water for 10 minutes. Add the butter or margarine and let cool.
• In the same pan add the flour, soda, salt, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and chopped nuts (optional), mix well and pour batter into a lightly greased 10x10 inch baking pan
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes. Serves 8 to 12.

Steps:

• In saucepan. place raisins, brown sugar, hot water, shortening, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
• Bring mixture to boiling point, cover and let simmer for 6 minutes.
• Cool to lukewarm and add vanilla.
• Add soda to flour and mix.
• Combine flour and raisin mixture well.
• Bake in buttered 9X5" loaf pan in 325° oven for 1-1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan.
• This cake improves with keeping.
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• NOTE--It can be a challenge to find pastry flour. Even well-stocked supermarkets seldom carry more varieties than cake flour, all-purpose flour (9% to 12% protein), and bread flour. If you can't find pastry flour, you can mix your own by combining cake flour and all-purpose flour in a ratio somewhere between two parts cake flour to one part all-purpose and one part cake flour to one part all-purpose.

Steps:

• Boil the sugar, raisins, and water for about a minute until the raisins begin to plump. Set aside to cool.
• When cool, drain raisins, reserving raisin water. Add oil, spices, and vanilla to raisin water. Mix baking soda with flour and add slowly to the raisin water mixture. Fold in raisins.
• Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes, until tester comes out clean.
• Frosting: beat together cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar. This makes probably more frosting than than most people like on a 9 x 13 cake, but I say pile it on.

Steps:

• Mix raisins, butter, brown sugar, spices, and water in heavy saucepan.
• Place on high heat and bring to a boil.
• Lower heat and simmer for 6 minutes.
• Remove from heat and turn raisin mixture into a large bowl.
• Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine flour, salt, and baking soda and mix gently.
• Add orange juice, vanilla and dry ingredients to cooled raisin mixture and beat well.
• Turn batter into a well greased 10 ¼" x 3 5/8" x 2 5/8" loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour.
• Allow cake to cool in pan for 10 minutes.
• Remove from loaf pan and allow to cool completely on wire rack.
• Let cake ripen for at least one day before slicing.

Steps:

• Mix sugar, butter, water, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in pot and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes and then cool.
• Mix flour and baking soda and add to cool raisin mixture.
• Spread into greased and floured 9" square. Bake at 350 F for about 25 minutes. The top of the cake will bounce back when lightly tapped. Be careful, over cooking will dry it out.
• Dust with icing sugar or frost with "Poor Man's Frosting" or forget it. It is great just on it's own.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Bring water to boil in small pot, add raisans and boil 5 minutes. Cool. Do not drain water - it will be used in recipe.
• Cream shortening and sugar.
• Add eggs and beat well.
• Add cooled raisans with any left over water, and vanilla.
• Stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and allspice to wet ingredients.
• Drop by teaspoon onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. This mixture is not meant to be really dry.
• Bake 10 minutes.