Recipe from the newspaper years ago. This is a thick, solid cake so it needs to cook the entire recommended time unless your oven cooks hotter.
Ingredients: [‘shortening’, ‘sugar’, ‘flour’, ‘salt’, ‘cinnamon’, ‘nutmeg’, ‘allspice’, ‘eggs’, ‘sour milk’, ‘baking soda’, ‘blackberry jam’]
Quantity of Ingredients: [“1 cup shortening”,”2 cups sugar”,”3 cups flour”,”1/4 teaspoon salt”,”1 teaspoon cinnamon”,”1 teaspoon nutmeg”,”1/2 teaspoon allspice”,”4 eggs, seperated “,”1 cup sour milk”,”1 teaspoon baking soda”,”1 cup blackberry jam”]
Number of Servings: 1
Steps: [‘Sift all dry ingredients together.’, ‘Cream shortening and sugar.’, ‘Add egg yolks to shortening mixture and beat well.’, ‘Add flour mixture alternately with sour milk.’, ‘Add vanilla and blackberry jam.’, ‘Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.’, ‘Bake in greased tube pan at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 45 minutes.’]