Grandmas Touch Boiled Raisin Cake Recipes

Steps:

• In a saucepan add raisins and water.
• Boil 15 minute.
• Drain keeping liquid.
• There should be 1 cup left over.
• If not add enough water to make 1 cup.
• Cool.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with water.
• starting and ending with dry ingredients.
• Add vanilla and stir in raisins.
• Pour into greased 9"x11" or 9"x13" pan.
• Bake 350 for 30-35 minute.
• Icing:.
• Brown butter and brown sugar.
• Add water.
• Beat in icing sugar until spreading constituency.
• Ice with above recipe or dimple icing.

Steps:

• Mix sugar, butter, water, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in pot and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes and then cool.
• Mix flour and baking soda and add to cool raisin mixture.
• Spread into greased and floured 9" square. Bake at 350 F for about 25 minutes. The top of the cake will bounce back when lightly tapped. Be careful, over cooking will dry it out.
• Dust with icing sugar or frost with "Poor Man's Frosting" or forget it. It is great just on it's own.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 10 x 10 inch baking pan.
• In a large saucepan boil the raising with the water for 10 minutes. Add the butter or margarine and let cool.
• In the same pan add the flour, soda, salt, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and chopped nuts (optional), mix well and pour batter into a lightly greased 10x10 inch baking pan
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes. Serves 8 to 12.

Steps:

• 1. Grind salt pork(all fat) Pour boiling water over and let stand till lukewarm. Stir in sugar, molasses, egg, soda and spices. Add flour and raisins. Mix well. Pour in well greased tube or deep loaf pans. Bake in 300^ oven for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or till tested done. --- Easy Method: Reduce water to 1 cup For the salt pork -substitute 1 cup shortening 1 teas. salt 9 oz. condensed mincemeat and prepare with remaining ingredients above Follow according to directions above for baking.

Steps:

• Boil the sugar, raisins, and water for about a minute until the raisins begin to plump. Set aside to cool.
• When cool, drain raisins, reserving raisin water. Add oil, spices, and vanilla to raisin water. Mix baking soda with flour and add slowly to the raisin water mixture. Fold in raisins.
• Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes, until tester comes out clean.
• Frosting: beat together cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar. This makes probably more frosting than than most people like on a 9 x 13 cake, but I say pile it on.

Steps:

• 1. Boil sugar, shortening, water, raisins and spices for 5 minutes; remove from heat and let cool completely.
• 2. Mix dry ingredients together; add to cooled mixture stirring by hand.
• 3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Pour cake mixture into a large greased and floured loaf pan or 3 smaller aluminum loaf pans and place walnut halves across the top of cake(s). Bake for 1 hour, stick a toothpick in center of cake, if it comes out wet bake for an additional 10 minutes. Cool; pour brandy over the top of the cake and cover with aluminum foil. Let sit in a dark place for at least 3 months for the raisins to ferment.
• 4. For Vanilla Sauce: Bring milk and 1/2 cup sugar to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
• 5. Beat yolks and 2 Tbsp sugar together until light and lemon-colored.
• 6. Remove pan from heat and pour milk over eggs, stirring vigorously. Pour milk mixture into pan and heat, without boiling, until thickened.
• 7. Remove from heat; add vanill and butter and stir.
• 8. NOTE: This cake will keep for quite awhile. If it should become hard around the edges, just make the vanilla sauce and pour over it.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Combine sugar, water, vegetable oil, raisins, and spices in a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Take pan off heat and let cool for 10 minutes.
• Dissolve baking soda and salt in 2 teaspoons of water and add to raisin mixture (it will foam).
• Blend in the flour and baking powder. Mix well.
• Pour the batter into a greased 9 inch square pan and bake for 55 minutes, or until a toothpick unserted in the center comes out clean.
• Let cake cool for about 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Place sugar, raisins, water, shortening, cinnamon, and cloves in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Boil for 5 minutes and remove from heat.
• Immediately add flour, baking soda, salt and stir in.
• Pour into a 8"x8" pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Prep time includes the boiling.

Steps:

• Boil raisins in 2 cups of water for 15 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Add vegetable oil and cold water to the raisins.
• Mix sugar, flour, spices, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
• Add the raisin mixture, and stir till just mixed.
• Pour into a greased and floured 9 x 13 inch baking pan, and bake for one hour in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven. It is done if a toothpick comes out clean.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Bring water to boil in small pot, add raisans and boil 5 minutes. Cool. Do not drain water - it will be used in recipe.
• Cream shortening and sugar.
• Add eggs and beat well.
• Add cooled raisans with any left over water, and vanilla.
• Stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and allspice to wet ingredients.
• Drop by teaspoon onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. This mixture is not meant to be really dry.
• Bake 10 minutes.