Scripture Cake Ii

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (1 kings 4, 22)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder (galatians 5, 9)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (leviticus 2, 13)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon clove (1 kings 10, 2)
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 cup butter, softened (judges 5, 25)
• 2 cups firmly packed brown sugar (jeremiah 6, 20)
• 2 tablespoons honey (exodus 16, 31)
• 6 eggs (luke 11, 12)
• 1 (8 ounce) package chopped pitted dates (deuteronomy 34, 3)
• 2 cups raisins (1 samuel 30, 12)
• 1 cup walnuts or 1 cup pecans, chopped (song of solomon 6, 11)
• 1 cup milk (judges 5, 25)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325f.
• 2 grease and flour a tube pan.
• 3 sift dry ingredients onto waxed paper.
• 4 beat butter, sugar, honey and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• 5 sprinkle 1/4 cup of sifted flour mixture over fruit and nuts.
• 6 add remaining flour mixture alternately with milk to butter mixture, beating until smooth after each addition: stir in fruits and nuts and spoon into prepared tube pan.
• 7 bake in oven 90 minutes or until top springs back when lightly pressed.
• 8 remove from oven and invert pan on wire rack for 20 minutes.
• 9 loosen around edges of tube with knife.
• 10 turn out on rack; cool completely.
• 11 wrap in foil or plastic.
• 12 for peak flavor, serve the next day.