The Story of Crisco

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Coffee (Mocha Cake-Sift cups flour)

a *Mocha Cake-Sift 6 cups flour with 1 teaspoon baking powder into basin, add 1 teaspoon each of powdered cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful salt, and 1 cup Crisco; rub well together, add ½ a cup golden syrup, 1 cup strong cold coffee, 2 well beaten eggs, 1 cup currants and 1 cup sultana raisins, mix well together.

Pour into Criscoed and papered tin and bake in moderate oven 2 hours.

July 16

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