Raised Loaf Cake
Ingredients
- 1 pint of lukewarm milk
- 2 quarts of sifted flout
- 1/2 cupful of yeast
- 4 beaten eggs
- 1 teaspoonful of salt
- 2 teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon
- 1 pound of white sugar
- 1/2 pound of butter (1 cup, packed)
Directions
Set this batter where it will rise quickly. When perfectly light work in with the hand:
Rub butter and sugar to a cream and work into the cake and add 1 quart of sifted flour. Mix together with the hand and set where it will rise again. When of a spongy lightness put into buttered cake-pans and let them stand fifteen or twenty minutes before baking. 1 1/2 pounds of raisins added just before putting the cake in tins is an addition. Flavor with a wineglassful of rosewater.