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BLACKBERRY JAM CAKE

Source of Recipe

COUSIN THELMA her Mother's Nellie Richmond Hauser


Recipe Introduction

Her Mother's recipe.

List of Ingredients

1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
3 cups stifted flour
4 egg yolks, beaten
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cloves (ground)
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup black berry jam
4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
1 cup chopped nuts


Recipe

Cream thoroughly sugar, shortening,and egg yolks. Dissolve soda in buttermilk, and add alternately with dry ingredients (beginning and ending with dry ingredients). Add blackberry jam and nuts.( dredged in flour).
Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
Makes three 9 inch layers.
Bake in 350 degree oven 25 to 30 minutes, or until springy on top. and pulling away from sides. (check with tooth pick)
because ovens vary, check before time is up.

She told me she has another recipe, from someone else (Cliff Lash, Ruth Lyons' band leader) that calles for 3/4 cup of shortening. It makes a somewhat less dense cake, of course with fewer fat grams. Of course you can use canned, drained backberries, crushed (2 cups); but the seeds are bothersome to many people.