Coffee Cake.
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Take: Flour, 2½ lbs.; brown sugar, 9 oz.; butter, 14 oz.; molasses, 1 pt.; cold strong coffee, 1 pt.; stoned raisins, cut in two, 2½ lbs.; citron, 1 lb.; mace, cinnamon, and ginger, 2 teaspoonfuls each; cloves and allspice, 1 teaspoonful each; soda, dissolved in a little of the coffee, 2 even teaspoonfuls.
Rub the sugar and butter together, add the molasses, coffee and flour alternately, leaving a pint of flour in which to rub the fruit, then the soda, and lastly the fruit. Bake slowly about an hour.
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