Recipe - Frosted Jam Cake

1 cup Butter, Softened
2 cup Sugar
4 lg Eggs
2 cup Jam (Blackberry Is
Recommended)
3 cup Unbleached Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
2 teaspoon Ground Allspice
2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1 cup Buttermilk
1 cup Seedless Raisins
2/3 cup Chopped Nuts

This recipe comes from the Silver Leaf 1815 Inn in Lyles, Tenn.

Preheat the oven to 350 degree F., then grease and flour 3 9inch cake
pans.

Cream the butter and sugar until light then beat in the eggs and jam,
blending well. Sift the dry ingredients together and then add the dry
ingredients, alternating with the buttermilk, to the creamed mixture,
blending well after each addition. Stir in the raisins and nuts. Pour the
batter evenly into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or
until the cake tests done, in the preheated oven. Cool for 5 minutes on
wire racks and turn out of the cake pans to cool to room temperature. When
cool, spread with the warm frosting,

From The Food Fare Section Rocky Mountain News September 3, 1986