Probably the last place you’d expect to find a cake recipe is in the Bible. That is just where to look for the ingredients of this cake. You’ll enjoy hunting up the references and the mixing is simple. It is a most delicious fruit cake and the recipe is from an old English cook book:
Ingredients:
# 1 - 1/2 pound of Judges 5: verse 25 (last clause)
# 2 - 1/2 pound of Jeremiah 6:20 (Sweet Cane)
# 3 - 1 tablespoon of I Samuel 14:25
# 4 - 3 of Jeremiah 17:11
# 5 - 1/2 pound of I Samuel 30:12
# 6 - 1/2 pound of Nahum 3:12 (chopped)
# 7 - 1/4 cup of Numbers 17:8 (blanched and chopped)
# 8 - 4 cups of I Kings 4:22
# 9 - Season to taste with 11 Chronicles 9:9
#10 - A pinch of Leviticus 2:13
#11 - 1 teaspoon of Amos 4:5
#12 - 3 tablespoons of Judges 4:19
Preparation:
- Beat #1, #2 and #3 to a cream. Add #4, one at a time, still beating.
- Add #5, #6 and #7, and beat again.
- Add #8, #9, #10 and #11, having previously mixed them together, and lastly #12.
- Bake in a slow oven for 1½ hours. Slow oven is 300ºF (150ºC).
TIP: Just to start you off, here’s the 1st reference:
Judges 5:25 - “She brought forth butter in a lordly dish” -
NOTE: We did put the answers for you on the separate page, just click on the link: