Eastern Scripture Cake Recipe - Cooking Index
Scripture | ||
1 cup | 237ml | Judges 5:25 |
1 3/4 cups | 414ml | Jeremiah 6:20 |
1/4 cup | 59ml | Proverbs 24:13 |
Job 39:14 | ||
First Kings 10:2 | ||
Amos 4:5 | ||
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Leviticus 2:13 |
3 3/4 cups | 888ml | First Samuel 30:12 1st phrase |
1 cup | 237ml | First Samuel 30:12 2nd phrase |
1 cup | 237ml | Numbers 17:8 |
1 cup | 237ml | Genesis 24:11 |
Cake | ||
1 cup | 198g / 7oz | Butter |
1 3/4 cups | 346g / 12oz | Sugar |
1/4 cup | 59ml | Honey |
Eggs | ||
2 teaspoons | 10ml | Ground cinnamon |
1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Ground cloves |
1 1/2 teaspoons | 7.5ml | Ground allspice |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Ground nutmeg |
3 teaspoons | 15ml | Baking powder |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Baking soda |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Salt |
3 3/4 cups | 234g / 8.3oz | Unsifted flour |
1 cup | 146g / 5.1oz | Dried figs - chopped |
2 cups | 320g / 11oz | Raisins |
1 cup | 146g / 5.1oz | Dates - chopped |
1 cup | 237ml | Water |
Preheat oven to 300F and generously grease and flour a 10" tube pan.
With an electric mixer, beat butter until light and ten slowly add sugar and cream together until light colored. Add honey. Beat in eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.
Mix together dry ingredients. Take out 1/2 cup of mixture and toss with raisins, figs and nuts. Add remainder of dry ingredients to egg-butter-sugar mixture, alternately with water.
By hand, fold nuts and fruit into batter. Pour into pan.
Bake for about 1 1/2 hours or until cake is firm to touch on top. Let cool in pan for 1/2 hour and then turn onto a cooling rack. Let is cool completely before cutting.
Source:
GRIT -- 06/01/97
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