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100 Year Old Jam Cake




Source of Recipe


Internet


List of Ingredients




1 1/2 cups butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 1/2 cups cake flour
2 teaspoons soda
2 teaspoons ground allspice
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
6 Tablespoons buttermilk
2 cups strawberry jam


Recipe



Cream soft butter. Add sugar slowly, beating until creamy. Add eggs (room temperature) one at a time. Beat well after each egg. Have flour mixture ready. Sift all-purpose flour and measure. Then sift again with soda and spices. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk. Mix to blend well. Mixing this cake requires about 25 to 30 minutes. Last of all fold in strawberry jam. If berries are quite large chop fine. Pour into four square 8-inch layer cake pans 2 inches deep. Brush bottom of pan lightly with salt free shortening or salad oil. Flour well. Level the batter with spatula. Drop pans several times from height of 4 inches. Bake in moderate oven (375 degrees) about 30-40 minutes or until done. Cool on cake rack 5 minutes, then turn out onto cake rack to cool completely before icing. Frost with Uncooked Caramel Icing.

The secret to the cake is aging. Make it, then let it sit a couple of days before cutting it. The clipping says that the newspaper's test kitchen let the one they made ripen for five days. Properly wrapped, it should freeze well.