American Southern

Sugar Drop Cake

Name: Sugar Drop Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 1 lb sugar; 6 each eggs; 1 cups butter; 1 do. sour cream; 0.5 lb raisins; 0.5 lb citron; 0.5 lb currants; 1 lb flour; 2 tsp cream tartar; one do. soda; 2 tsp cloves; 1 each nutmeg; 2 tsp mace; 2 do. cinnamon

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 14. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

20 minPrep Time

35 minCook Time

12Servings

mediumDifficulty

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2 tsp cloves

1 each nutmeg

2 tsp mace

2 do. cinnamon

Instructions

1
Chop raisins and citron fine
2
Rub the fruit in four ounces more flour
3
Beat the eggs separately
4
Stir the fruit in last
5
Butter sheets of paper, lay in a dripping-pan
6
Bake moderately
7
Ice while warm