1 c Butter
2 c Sugar
6 Eggs
3 c Flour
2 ts Soda
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Nutmeg
1/2 ts Cloves
1/2 ts Allspice
1 c Buttermilk
1 1/2 c Strawberry jam
-ICING INGREDIENTS-
1 1/2 c Whipping cream
2 c Sugar
3/4 c Chopped pecans
1 c Chopped dates
1/2 c Butter
1/2 cn Candied red cherries;
-chopped
CAKE: Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after
each. Combine flour, salt and spices. Dissolve soda in buttermilk. Add
flour and buttermilk alternately to cream mixture; stir in jam. Bake in 3
greased and floured layer cake pans or in a sheet cake pan at 325 for 30
minutes. Makes a large cake and freezes well. If frozen, do not ice until
thaw- ed and ready to serve. ICING: Mix all ingredients. Cook in heavy
saucepan over low heat, being careful not to scorch. Let cook until mixture
reaches spreading consistency. Cool. Spread between layers of cooled cake.
Punch small holes in top and sides of cake so icing can drizzle into cake.
MRS ELBERT JACKSON (RADA)
MARVELL, AR
From the book High Cotton Cookin’, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR 72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen’s MM Recipe Archive,
Yields
1 Servings