Boiled Raisin Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups raisins
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup shortening
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon clove
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking soda

Preparation

In saucepan. place raisins, brown sugar, hot water, shortening, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
Bring mixture to boiling point, cover and let simmer for 6 minutes.
Cool to lukewarm and add vanilla.
Add soda to flour and mix.
Combine flour and raisin mixture well.
Bake in buttered 9X5\" loaf pan in 325\u00b0 oven for 1-1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan.
This cake improves with keeping.
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NOTE--It can be a challenge to find pastry flour. Even well-stocked supermarkets seldom carry more varieties than cake flour, all-purpose flour (9% to 12% protein), and bread flour. If you can't find pastry flour, you can mix your own by combining cake flour and all-purpose flour in a ratio somewhere between two parts cake flour to one part all-purpose and one part cake flour to one part all-purpose.