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Full recipe steps and ingredient amounts for chocolate raisin cake is found in the recipe card at the bottom of this post. Bring to a boil, water, brown sugar, raisins, butter and cocoa. Let simmer for 5 minutes and then remove from heat and let cool. In a different bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices.
Boil raisins in 2 cups of water for 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Add vegetable oil and cold water to the raisins. Mix sugar, flour, spices, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
DEPRESSION BOILED RAISIN CAKE. Put first 10 ingredients in a 4-quart pan and boil for 4 minutes. Cool for 2 hours. Optional: Boil raisins in 1 1/2 cups water; when water cools, add 1/2 cup rum to the cooking water. After raisins have soaked for 2 hours, stir in the remaining ingredients.
This Boiled Cake is also known as “ Boiled Raisin Cake ” — “boiled” referring to the step of boiling raisins with sugar and spices to make a syrup for use in the recipe. After the Stock Market Crash of 1929, families struggled to stretch their budgets and to “make do” with ingredients they could afford or grow.
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