Election Cake
A dish made with butter and bread dough.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggs
Ingredients
US
Metric
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup bread dough
- 1 egg
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sour milk
- ⅔ cup raisins seeded, and cut in pieces
- 8 finely chopped figs
- 1¼ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon clove
- ¼ teaspoon mace
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon salt
Make it lactose-friendly
- ½ cup butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
- ½ cup sour milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk
Steps
- Work the butter into the bread dough with your hand.
- Beat the egg well, then add it to the dough along with the brown sugar and sour milk.
- Dredge the raisins and chopped figs with 2 tablespoons of the flour.
- Sift the remaining flour with the soda, cinnamon, clove, mace, nutmeg, and salt.
- Add the dredged fruit and the sifted flour mixture to the dough and mix well.
- Put the batter into a well-buttered bread pan, cover, and let rise for 1¼ hours.
- Bake for 1 hour in a slow oven.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
| Calories | 436 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 5.4 g |
| Fat | 8.8 g |
| Carbs | 91.7 g |
| Fiber | 10.0 g |
| Sodium | 257 mg |
Source
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States