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Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 tablespoons hardened vegetable fat
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup corn syrup
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 cup (plus 1 1/2 tablespoons) flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 tablespoons chopped citron
• 1/2 cup raisins, cut in half
• 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon clove
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

Instructions

Cream fat; add sugar gradually, syrup, egg well beaten; mix and sift dry ingredients; add alternately with milk to first mixture. Add raisins (which have been rolled in a little of the flour), mixing them through the cake thoroughly.

Bake about 30 minutes in a moderate oven (about 380° F.).

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Source

Everyday Foods in War Time (1918).