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Ingredients: 1 c. Judges 5:25 ( last clause: butter or margarine)
1 3/4 c. Jeremiah 6:20 (sugar)
1/4 c. Proverbs 24:13 (honey)
6 Job 39:14 (eggs)
1st Kings 10:2 (spices: 1 1/2 t. ground cinnamon 1/2 t. ground cloves, 1 t. ground allspice, 1 t. ground nutmeg)
3 t. Amos 4:5 (baking powder plus 1 t. baking soda)
1 t. Leviticus 2:13 (salt)
3 3/4 c. 1st Kings 4:22 (unsifted all -purpose flour)
1 c. Genesis 24:11 (water; the magazine folks substituted 1 c. cold buttermilk)
2 c. 1st Samuel 30:12 (second clause: raisins)
2 c. Revelation 6:13 (cut up dried figs)
1 c. Numbers 17:8 (chopped almonds)
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Directions: |
Directions:1. Preheat oven to 300º F. Heavily grease and flour a 10-inch tube or bundt pan or two 9X5X3 -inch loaf pans.
2. In large bowl, with electric mixer at medium speed, beat butter until smooth. At low speed, add sugar gradually;beat in well. Clean beaters. Blend in honey at low speed.
3. Add eggs one at a time, beating at medium-high speed after each addition.
4. On large sheet of waxed paper combine cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg,baking powder, baking soda, salt and 3 1/4 c. flour.
5. Add blended dry ingredients to batter alternately with buttermilk. Toss reserved 1/2 c. flour with raisins, figs and almonds. Gently fold fruit and nuts into batter.
6. Pour batter into pan. Cut through batter with knife to distribute evenly. Bake for 1 1/12 hours, or until a cake tester poked into center comes out clean. Let cool in pan 30 minutes, ten turn out on rack to cool completely. |
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Notes: I found this recipe in a magazine years ago.Above the recipe it says: This week Food Editor Marilyn Hansen bakes a lightly spiced, fruit-laden Scripture Cake. She explains its origin: "President Madison's wife, Dolley was a very fine ( and secretive) cook, with deep religious convictions. She wrote this recipe so her imitators would have to read the Bible to bake the cake."
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