Grams Poor Mans Cake Eggless Milkless Food

GRANDMA'S POOR MAN'S CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350° and spray two 9 x 5 baking pans or a 13 x 9 baking dish with non stick spray. Set aside.

GRAM'S POOR MAN'S CAKE (EGGLESS & MILKLESS)

Steps:

• Bring to a boil the fruit, nuts, extract, salt, sugar, shortening and coffee.
• Continue to cook until raisins swell and liquid becomes syrupy; cool completely.
• Stir together the flour, baking soda and baking powder.
• Add to fruit mixture and combine thoroughly.
• Pour into a greased 10-inch tube pan and bake at 325° about an hour (if heavy with fruit). Check with tester to be sure cake is done.
• Remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
• At this point I soak a clean piece of cheesecloth in liquor; brandy, rum, even wine.
• Wrap the cake with the cloth and in foil--store in COLD place--check often, resoak as needed.
• There are no exact measurements for the fruit in this recipe--the original recipe stated "fruits, nuts & peels-whatever you have on hand".
• This was done because it was wartime and things for fancy baking were not always available.

EGGLESS,BUTTERLESS,MILKLESS CAKE

Steps:

• Place all in a saucepan and boil for 5 minutes.
• Cool.
• Add 2 teaspoons soda,dissolved in 1 tablespoons lukewarm water.
• Add flour.
• Bake 1 1/2 hours in loaf pan at 350*.

EGGLESS, MILKLESS, BUTTERLESS SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Stir together flour, cornstarch, baking soda, spices and salt.
• Cream sugar, oil, lemon juice and vanilla.
• Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, a little at a time, alternating with up to 1 cup of water.
• Mix briskly with fork until thoroughly blended.
• Pour into lightly greased and floured 8 or 9 inch square pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Let cool in pan.

GRANDMA'S EGGLESS, BUTTERLESS, MILKLESS CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together.
• Combine all the wet ingredients together in another bowl.
• Pour the liquid ingredients all at once into the dry ingredients, and beat until smooth.
• Pour batter into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 20-25 minutes. Let cool in pan. When cool sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

OLD SOG (AN EGGLESS, MILKLESS RAISIN CAKE)

Steps:

• Put water and raisins into a saucepan, bring to a boil, and turn off the heat. Allow to sit for 10 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Add butter or margarine to saucepan, and let the mixture sit until it reaches room temperature.
• Stir in the rest of the ingredients.
• Pour into an 8" by 8" pan or an 8" cake pan.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes in a 350 degree oven (until a toothpick comes out clean).
• Serve warm or cool.

EGGLESS MILKLESS BUTTERLESS CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 8 or 9 inch square cake pan.
• In a saucepan over medium high heat combine; the sugar, shortening, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, salt, raisins, and water bring to a boil and continue boiling for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda together. Add the flour mixture to the cooled raisin mixture. Stir until just combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 minutes.

GRANDMA'S DEPRESSION CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Combine sugar, water, vegetable oil, raisins, and spices in a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Take pan off heat and let cool for 10 minutes.
• Dissolve baking soda and salt in 2 teaspoons of water and add to raisin mixture (it will foam).
• Blend in the flour and baking powder. Mix well.
• Pour the batter into a greased 9 inch square pan and bake for 55 minutes, or until a toothpick unserted in the center comes out clean.
• Let cake cool for about 10 minutes before serving.