Best 7 Boiled Raisin Cake Recipes

BOILED RAISIN CAKE I

Steps:

• Boil raisins in 2 cups of water for 15 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Add vegetable oil and cold water to the raisins.
• Mix sugar, flour, spices, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
• Add the raisin mixture, and stir till just mixed.
• Pour into a greased and floured 9 x 13 inch baking pan, and bake for one hour in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven. It is done if a toothpick comes out clean.

GRANDMOTHER'S BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees(165 degrees C). Grease a 9 x 5 inch pan. Set aside.
• In 3 quart saucepan, boil raisins slowly water until there is 1 cup of water left and the raisins are plump. Allow mixture to cool.
• Stir in sugar and egg. Mix spices with boiling water and add to raisin mixture. Add flour, soda, vanilla and last, the melted shortening. Blend well. Pour into loaf pan.
• Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. When cool make glaze by mixing confectioners sugar, ground cinnamon, and milk. Spread on top of cooled cake.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• In saucepan. place raisins, brown sugar, hot water, shortening, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
• Bring mixture to boiling point, cover and let simmer for 6 minutes.
• Cool to lukewarm and add vanilla.
• Add soda to flour and mix.
• Combine flour and raisin mixture well.
• Bake in buttered 9X5" loaf pan in 325° oven for 1-1 1/4 hours. Cool in pan.
• This cake improves with keeping.
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• NOTE--It can be a challenge to find pastry flour. Even well-stocked supermarkets seldom carry more varieties than cake flour, all-purpose flour (9% to 12% protein), and bread flour. If you can't find pastry flour, you can mix your own by combining cake flour and all-purpose flour in a ratio somewhere between two parts cake flour to one part all-purpose and one part cake flour to one part all-purpose.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE WITH CARAMEL FROSTING

Steps:

• Boil 1/2 cup raisins for 2 mins and retain 1/2 to 3/4 cup of the water.
• Cream butter, brown sugar and eggs.
• Mix dry ingredients.
• Add raisins and 1/2 to 3/4 cup of liquid.
• plus vanilla.
• Bake in greased 13 x 9 pan at 350 for 45 minutes.
• ICING:.
• Boil sugar, butter and milk for 2 mins, stirring constantly.
• Cool 30 minutes Add icing sugar and stir til smooth.
• Ice Raisin cake.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• Gently boil coffee, raisins, currants, orange peel, sugars, nutmeg, and butter over moderate heat, uncovered, in a 3-quart heavy saucepan, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Cool mixture to room temperature, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour.
• Put a small roasting pan filled halfway with hot water on rack in lowest position in oven (to provide moisture during baking). Put remaining oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Generously butter tube pan.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl, then stir into raisin mixture until combined well. Spoon batter into tube pan and smooth top. Bake in middle of oven until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Cool cake completely in pan on a rack, about 2 1/2 hours, then turn out onto a serving plate.
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BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Boil sugar, shortening, water, raisins and spices for 5 minutes; remove from heat and let cool completely.
• 2. Mix dry ingredients together; add to cooled mixture stirring by hand.
• 3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Pour cake mixture into a large greased and floured loaf pan or 3 smaller aluminum loaf pans and place walnut halves across the top of cake(s). Bake for 1 hour, stick a toothpick in center of cake, if it comes out wet bake for an additional 10 minutes. Cool; pour brandy over the top of the cake and cover with aluminum foil. Let sit in a dark place for at least 3 months for the raisins to ferment.
• 4. For Vanilla Sauce: Bring milk and 1/2 cup sugar to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
• 5. Beat yolks and 2 Tbsp sugar together until light and lemon-colored.
• 6. Remove pan from heat and pour milk over eggs, stirring vigorously. Pour milk mixture into pan and heat, without boiling, until thickened.
• 7. Remove from heat; add vanill and butter and stir.
• 8. NOTE: This cake will keep for quite awhile. If it should become hard around the edges, just make the vanilla sauce and pour over it.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Place raisins in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to simmer, simmer for about 20 minutes. Drain raisins and reserve the water they where boiled in. Measure out two cups of the water and dissolve two teaspoons of baking soda in the water. . . This will make a very large cake. It is a very moist cake and will need no frosting.
• 2. Mix shortening and sugar then add eggs. Mix in the raisin water. Add the vanilla.
• 3. Mix the dry ingredients together and then mix in the dry ingredients.Pour into a greased 9x13 pan. Generously sprinkle granulated sugar all over the top of the cake batter. Place in a 350 degree oven and bake for 35 to 50 minutes or till toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean