Imperial Cake
1½ lb. raisins, seeded and cut in pieces 1/2 cup walnut meat, broken in pieces 1/2 lb. flour 14 teaspoon soda Mix same as Pound Cake, adding raisins dredged with flour, and nuts at the last.
The book that taught America to measure. Fannie Farmer's 1896 classic replaced the pinch, the lump and the teacup of the old receipts with the level cup and the level spoon — and then filled eight hundred pages with what to do next.
1½ lb. raisins, seeded and cut in pieces 1/2 cup walnut meat, broken in pieces 1/2 lb. flour 14 teaspoon soda Mix same as Pound Cake, adding raisins dredged with flour, and nuts at the last.