Recipe - Mothers Dark Cake

1 cup Crisco
2 cup Sugar
1 Box raisins(dark)
2 teaspoon Cinnamon
One half teaspoon Cloves
One fourth teaspoon Salt
4 cup Boiling water

On top of stove, put all ingredients in pan and bring to a rolling boil,
with no cover Remove from stove and add 4 tsps of fresh baking soda(it will
fizz up) Cover now, and let it cool completely....... Remove cover and add
4 cups of flour, to the mixture, and mix it well Pour into 2 well greased
and floured, loaf pans Bake at 350* for 1 hour cake is done when toothpick
comes out clean

This is a very unusual and moist cake and needs no frosting....

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by "Frank McGann"
uconnfan@fast.net on Sep 21, 1997