Mahogany Cake
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Cakes
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Desserts
Ingredients: 1 1/2
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Sugar 1
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Butter or butter substitute 1
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Baking soda 1/2
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Cocoa 1/4
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Salt 3
Eggs 1
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Sour milk 2
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Cake flour 1/2
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Chopped raisins 1/2
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Chopped nuts
Directions:
Cream sugar and butter. Add egg yolks. Beat thoroughly. Sift flour,
measure, and sift with baking soda and salt. Combine sifted dry
ingredients and 1/2 cup sour milk with first mixture. Combine 1/2 cup sour
milk with cocoa and heat over hot water until cocoa is melted. Cool. Add to
cake batter. Add raisins, which have been dredged in 2 tablespoons of the
flour, and nuts. Mix thoroughly. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour
into well-oiled layer cake pans. Bake in moderate oven (375 F) about 25
minutes. Ice with mahogany icing. Mrs. R.B. Bumgartner, Adona, AR.
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