Scripture Cake
Scripture Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, scripture cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Scripture Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Scripture Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

Scripture cake is also known as "Bible Cake", "Scriptural Cake" and "Old Testament Cake" and was extremely popular in the latter part of the nineteenth century, especially in the southern Appalachians. I found a receipe for "Scripture Cake" in a book, "The Rosewood Casket", by Sharyn McCrumb. I think it was an Oprah pick.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook scripture cake using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Scripture Cake:
  1. Take 3 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour (1 Kings 4:22)
  2. Prepare 3 tsp baking powder (Galatians 5:9)
  3. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  4. Get 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cloves
  6. Make ready 1 tsp ground allspice (1 Kings 10:2)
  7. Take 1 cup butter, softened (Judges 5:25)
  8. Take 2 cups firmly packed brown sugar (Jeremiah 6:20)
  9. Make ready 2 tbsp honey (Exodus 16:31)
  10. Take 6 eggs (Luke 11:12)
  11. Prepare 8 oz pitted dates, chopped (Deuteronomy 34:3)
  12. Prepare 2 cups raisins (1 Samuel 30:12)
  13. Get 1 cup walnuts, chopped (Song of Solomon 6:11)
  14. Get 1 cup milk (Judges 5:25)

Historically, the recipe for Scripture Cake called for just that: scripture. Rather than typical ingredients, the traditional recipe included a list of Bible verses instead, requiring the baker to call on her. Drizzle over cooled scripture cake and garnish with sliced almonds. There is a bakery called Simply Fruit Cakes in the UK that sells these Scripture Cakes in beautiful tins.

Steps to make Scripture Cake:
  1. Grease a 10x4 angel cake tube pan. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
  2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, & allspice. Set aside.
  3. Beat butter, sugar, honey, & eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer until light & fluffy, about 3 minutes.
  4. In another bowl, combie fruita & nuts. Sprinkle 1/4 cups of flour mixture over fruits & nuts. Stir until coated. Set aside.
  5. Add remaining flour mixture alternately with the milk to the butter mixture, beating until smooth. Stir in fruits & nuts.
  6. Spoon into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour & 30 minutes or until the top Springs back when lightly touched with fingertip.
  7. Cool in pan on wire rack 20 minutes. Loosen around edge & tube with knife. Turn out on rack. Cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap. Cake slices best next day. But can slice same day.
  8. Gluten-free option. Can use gluten-free flour, but will need to add 1 3/4 tsp xanthum gum.
  9. Dairy free option. Can use soy milk instead of cows milk. Or really any kind of milk you prefer.
  10. Egg free option. Can use an egg replacer. I have an egg powder that I just have to add water to before adding.

Scripture Cake, (made and eaten at Christmas, Easter and Weddings) is also known variously around the Christian world as Bible Cake, Scriptural Cake or Old Testament Cake. Learn how to make Scripture Cake. A Scripture cake, also known as Bible cake or Old Testament cake, has been around for many years. It is basically a cake whose ingredients are written using scriptures from the bible. The recipe for Scripture Cake was often set up as a puzzle or exercise and its underlying goal was to Many recipes for Scripture Cake add to this list of ingredients only the words: "Follow Solomon's.

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