Election Cake
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A historic early American dish of butter, bread dough, egg, brown sugar and sour milk. Adapted from Election Cake, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896).
Adapted from Election Cake, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's Ye Old American Recipe Book collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/ye-old-american/recipes/election-cake-3.md.
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Work butter into dough, using the hand
Add egg well beaten, sugar, milk, fruit dredged with two tablespoons flour, and flour mixed and sifted with remaining ingredients
Put into a well-buttered bread pan, cover, and let rise one and one-fourth hours
Bake one hour in a slow oven
Cover with Boiled Milk Frosting
Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)