Raisin Cake
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare pound cake batter according to your preferred recipe.
Fold in 2 pounds of raisins and 1 tablespoon of mixed spices.
Bake according to pound cake instructions.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Raisins
- Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness to the cake.
- Mixed spices
- Add warm aroma that flavors the cake throughout.
- Pound cake batter
- Forms the cake's structure and crumb as it bakes.
The step that matters
Fold in the raisins and spices evenly. Raisins are heavy and can sink to the bottom of a thick batter, leaving the cake dense and fruit-heavy in one layer. Folding gently keeps the batter airy and distributes the fruit and spices through the whole cake.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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