Madeira-Style Spice Cake

Recipe Ingredients

1/2 cup	80g / 2.8oz	Golden raisins
2 1/2 cups	592ml	Milk - room temperature
1 1/2 cups	297g / 10oz	Butter - softened
2 tablespoons	30ml	Shortening or lard - plus
1 teaspoon	5ml	Shortening or lard
4 3.3333333333333E+14/1.0E+15 cups	270g / 9.5oz	Flour
3 cups	480g / 16oz	Light brown sugar
		(or 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
		And 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar)
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
2		Eggs
3/4 cup	177ml	Red wine
2 1/2 tablespoons	37ml	Whiskey
1 tablespoon	15ml	Molasses
		Zest of 1 large lemon
1 2/3 cups	243g / 8.6oz	Finely-chopped walnuts
2 teaspoons	10ml	Baking soda
2 teaspoons	10ml	Baking powder

Recipe Instructions

Soak raisins in milk in refrigerator several hours or overnight.

Melt together butter and shortening and set aside to cool. Place flour and brown sugar in bowl of mixer and blend on low (medium if using hand-held mixer) until completely blended and no lumps of brown sugar remain.

Add cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and mix. With mixer running, add eggs, wine, cooled butter-shortening mixture, whiskey, molasses and lemon zest. (Once there is enough liquid in bowl to keep flour from flying out, turn mixer to medium.)

Turn off mixer and pour in milk and raisin mixture, incorporate briefly by hand, turn mixer back on and beat at medium speed until well blended. This whole process should take 3 to 5 minutes.

Reserve 1/3 cup chopped walnuts for topping. Stir remaining nuts into batter. Add baking soda and baking powder and beat at medium speed just until blended.

Pour batter into greased and floured (10-inch) bundt pan, smooth top and sprinkle with remaining nuts. Bake at 350 degrees until cake tester inserted comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cool on rack several hours, preferably overnight, before removing from pan.

This recipe yields 12 to 16 servings.

Each of 16 servings: 567 calories; 345 mg sodium; 77 mg cholesterol; 28 grams fat; 72 grams carbohydrates; 7 grams protein; 0.73 gram fiber.

Source:
The Los Angeles Times, 08-04-1999

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