Free Recipe Hurdy Gurdy Cake
Recipe Type: C Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 12
Ingredients for Hurdy Gurdy Cake Recipe
Prunes; dried and cooked
Apricots; dried
1/2 c Raisins
1/2 c Pecan halves
1/2 c Any fruit juice
1/3 c Honey
3 tb Butter
1 ts Ground ginger
3/4 c Shortening
1 c Sugar or half honey and half
-sugar
1/2 c Molasses
1 ts Ginger
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ds Allspice
2 Eggs
2-1/2 c Flour
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Soda
1/2 c Boiling water
Hurdy Gurdy Cake Preparation
On the bottom of a well buttered skillet or pan, (I use cast iron) arrange: prunes, apricots, raisins and pecans. Heat the fruit juice, honey, butter and ginger together to make a nice thick syrup and pour over the fruits in the skillet. To prepare the batter: cream the shortening and sugar together. Add a small amount of the measured flour to the butter sugar mixture. Beat the molasses and spices into this. Beat the eggs until they are light and foamy and add to this mixture. Sift the flour, salt and soda together. Stir the dry ingredients into the other mixture and quickly beat the boiling water into it. Pour the batter over the fruit in the pan and bake in a slow oven, 300