Recipe - Nectar Cake

Three fourths cup Sugar
One half cup Butter or butter substitute
1 Egg, well beaten
One half cup Chopped nuts
1 One half cup Raisins
One half teaspoon Vanilla
1 2/3 cup Flour
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Allspice
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 cup Hot water

Combine raisins and hot water. Boil 10 minutes, remove from fire, drain
and cool. Save Three fourths cup of water in which raisins were cooked. Cream butter
and sugar. Add egg. Sift flour, measure, and sift with baking soda, spices,
and salt. Add raisins, raisin water, flavoring, and nuts. Beat thoroughly.
Pour into welloiled layer cake pans. Bake in moderate oven (375 F) about
30 minutes. Ice with powdered sugar icing. Ann Bastias, Grass Valley, CA.

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