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Bible Cake Full Recipe
Bible Cake is a most delicious fruit cake and the recipe is from an old English cook book.
Ingredients:
1/2 pound butter
1/2 pound sugar
1 tablespoon honey
3 eggs
1/2 pound raisins
1/2 pound figs (chopped)
1/4 cup almonds (blanched and chopped)
4 cups flour
Season to taste with spice
A pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of baking powder
3 tablespoons of milk
Directions:
1. Beat butter, sugar and honey to a cream. Add eggs, one at a time, still beating.
2. Add raisins, figs and almonds, and beat again.
3. Add flour, spice, salt and baking powder, having previously mixed them together, and lastly milk.
4. Bake in a slow oven for 1½ hours. Slow oven is 300ºF (150ºC).
Note: If you don't like figs, use 4 oz. glace cheries instead.
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