Spice Cake Recipe

Posted by Grandma Jeanne on December 2, 2005

This old recipe for spice cake is from a notebook my Grandma Ida (born in 1906) kept of her favorite recipes. This spice cake recipe is the first in the notebook, so she must have really enjoyed it! There are no instructions, just the ingredients and baking time. Recipes written this way were common back then – people knew how to make a cake! This old recipe is probably from the 1930s or 1940s.

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup raisins
1 cup sour milk
1 teaspoon soda dissolved in milk
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Mace to taste
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon molasses

Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 30 minutes.