COFFEE CAKE RECIPES
Treat Yourself with a Delicious Piece of Coffee Cake

Here are some coffee cake recipes that I have extracted from old books. If you have more coffee-cake recipes to share, please do in the form below.

This is how they made and ate coffee cake back then. They are certainly interesting from a nostalgic point of view. Are they still relevant? Do we still appreciate these recipes? You judge.

COFFEE CAKE - 1

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup strong coffee
• 4 cups of flour
• 1 egg
• 1 pound raisins
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 2 teaspoons cream tartar
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• 1 nutmeg

COFFEE CAKE - 2

• Cream 1/4 cup of butter with 1 cup of sugar.
• Add 1 egg beaten
• 1/2 cup milk
• A pinch of salt
• 1 & 1/2 cupfuls of sifted flour
• 1 teaspoonful of baking powder.
• Spread in pan and sprinkle with seeded and cleaned raisins or currants
• A little shredded citron
• Dot with butter and sift over sugar and cinnamon.
• Bake 1/2 hour and serve hot.

From: Rural Cook Book, "Some Old Recipes and Many New Ones—Being the Collected Wisdom of a Legion of Home Cooks", Published by THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK, 1907

COFFEE CAKE RECIPE — NO EGGS.

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 Orleans molasses
• 1 cup cold coffee,
• 1 teaspoonful soda in the molasses, 1/2 teaspoonful in the coffee
• 1 nutmeg
• 2 tablespoonfuls ground cinnamon
• 1 of cloves
• 1 cup seeded raisins
• 1 of English currants
• 1/4 pound citron
• Flour to make a stiff batter

From: Mrs. B. B. Barney, The Home Cook Book, 1976

COFFEE FRUIT CAKE

This requires neither eggs nor milk.

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 &1/2 cups sugar
• 1 & 1/2 cups cold strong coffee
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
• 1 teaspoonful cloves
• 1/2 teaspoonful nutmeg
• Flour for thick batter, adding 1 level teaspoonful baking powder
• For frosting without eggs, use 1 cupful of granulated sugar, 5 tablespoonfuls of milk; boil 4 or 5 minutes till it threads from the spoon
• Flavor as desired
• Add chocolate or not
• Stir till right thickness for spreading

This is fine-grained, white (if chocolate is not used) and delicious.

From: Rural Cook Book, "Some Old Recipes and Many New Ones—Being the Collected Wisdom of a Legion of Home Cooks", Published by THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK, 1907

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