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Volume 63 1897 and Good Housekeeping. Volume 3 1895 Christian Work.
In a medium bowl combine flour baking soda salt and cinnamon.
Recipe for scripture cake. Directions Step 1 Blend butter sugar spices and salt. Beat egg yolks and add. Sift in baking powder and flour then add water and.
Step 2 Put fruit and nuts through food processor and flour. For the Scripture Cake. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Cream the butter sugar and honey together in a large bowl. Mix in the 5 egg yolks reserving the egg whites. Sift 2 ½ cups of flour reserving ½ cup with the salt baking powder and spices in.
Be the first to review this recipe. This version comes from the 1970 publication of Herb Cottage Cookbook Washington Cathedral. It is old enough that the scripture is noted with roman numerals chapter number verse number instead of todays chapterverse which I have converted it to.
Scripture Cake turned up in lots of them. The idea is all the ingredients are found in verses of the Bible. Some of the recipes like the version from The Parish Cookbook of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Astoria Queens dont list the actual ingredients.
They give the chapter and verse and you have to look up what theyre referring to. No one is quite sure where the cake comes from. Hushpuppy Nation has found an early version in the Atlanta Constitution from 1897 but it probably existed long before that.
So how does it work. The recipe calls for things like four and a half cups of I Kings IV22 and two cups of I Samuel XXX12 Each of those passages will have a reference to an ingredient. For instance two cups of Nahum III12.
In separate bowl combine ingredients listed in PART 3 plus the 14 cup of PART that was set aside. Gently fold this into batter. Fill loaf pans about 34 full and bake for about 35 - 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Let cool on rack for 15 minutes and remove from pans. Grease 12-cup nonstick Bundt pan with the 1 tablespoon butter. Sprinkle raw sugar into pan turning pan to coat.
In large mixer bowl beat the 1 cup butter and granulated sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy. In a medium bowl combine flour baking soda salt and cinnamon. Kids would you like to try baking this cake.
CLICK HERE for the recipe for Scripture Cake. Look up all the ingredients using the scripture references in the story. Try to find the answers in the Bible first.
A King James Version Bible works best. Then check the ingredients to see if you are right. Once you have written down the ingredients go to this link to see if you got the right answers.
Answers appear at the bottom of the page. Then you can bake your Scripture Cake. 1 cup Judges 525 last clause butter 1 cup Jeremiah 620 sugar 1 tablespoon I Samuel 1425 honey 3 Jeremiah 1711 eggs 1 cup I Samuel 3012 second food raisins.
Scripture Cake recipes regularly appeared in such Victorian publications as Household News. Volume 3 1895 Christian Work. Volume 63 1897 and Good Housekeeping.
This recipe also common in the 1800s comes from Lincoln Cathedral Cookery Book published in aid of the Cathedral Fabric Fund in 1980. The recipe was sent. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolks one at a time. Sift together cake flour salt baking soda or powder cinnamon and spices.