Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• One cup of sugar
• One cup of butter
• One cup of molasses
• One egg
• One cup of coffee
• One teaspoonful of soda
• Four cups of flour
• One pound of raisins 
• One tablespoonful of cloves
• One tablespoonful of cinnamon
• One tablespoonful of nutmeg

Directions

1. Mix together one cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of molasses, and one egg
2. Add one cup of warm coffee to the mixture
3. Add one teaspoonful of soda, four cups of flour, and one pound of raisins or currants
4. Add one tablespoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg

Source — "Creole Cookery Book"

Prepared by Alexis Byars

Louisiana Anthropology

June 11, 2018