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Pinto Bean Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg beaten
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp allspice
1 cup raisins
2 cups diced raw apples
2 cups cooked pinto beans (mashed)
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 tsp vanilla extact
Directions:
Directions:
Cream sugar and butter. Add beaten egg and mashed beans, sift dry ingredients together and add to sugar mixture. Add apples, raisins, chopped nuts and vanilla. Pour into a well greased 10 inch tube pan. Bake in 375º oven for 45 minutes.
BUTTERMILK ICING
2 cups white sugar
1tsp baking soda
1 stick oleo
1 cup buttermilk
2 tbsp white syrup
Mix together thoroughly. Cook, stirring often, until soft ball forms when dropped in water. Cool and beat.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
One of my favorite cooking memories of Granny was one Christmas she had baked a cake and insisted on everyone tasting and then guess what the "secret ingredient" was. I don't think anyone guessed. She got a kick out of it, I can still hear her laugh !

 

 

 

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