Scripture Cake. I found a receipe for "Scripture Cake" in a book "The Rosewood Casket" by Sharyn McCrumb. I think it was an Oprah pick. There was not enough detail in the book so I searched the web and found this.
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. Scripture Cake with burnt Jeremiah Syrup is a very old recipe once used to teach young girls bible verses while learning to bake. You can have Scripture Cake using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Scripture Cake
- It’s of sifted all-purpose flour (1 Kings 4:22).
- You need of baking powder (Galatians 5:9).
- You need of ground cinnamon.
- You need of ground nutmeg.
- You need of ground cloves.
- It’s of ground allspice (1 Kings 10:2).
- Prepare of butter, softened (Judges 5:25).
- Prepare of firmly packed brown sugar (Jeremiah 6:20).
- Prepare of honey (Exodus 16:31).
- It’s of eggs (Luke 11:12).
- You need of pitted dates, chopped (Deuteronomy 34:3).
- It’s of raisins (1 Samuel 30:12).
- It’s of walnuts, chopped (Song of Solomon 6:11).
- You need of milk (Judges 5:25).
Recipe ingredients are determined by looking up scripture. A divine dessert inspired by ingredients found in the Bible. If you know your Bible well, this will pose no problems. If you don't know it quite that well, the translation will be at the end of the recipe.
Scripture Cake instructions
- Grease a 10×4 angel cake tube pan. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Sift flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, & allspice. Set aside..
- Beat butter, sugar, honey, & eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer until light & fluffy, about 3 minutes..
- In another bowl, combie fruita & nuts. Sprinkle 1/4 cups of flour mixture over fruits & nuts. Stir until coated. Set aside..
- Add remaining flour mixture alternately with the milk to the butter mixture, beating until smooth. Stir in fruits & nuts..
- Spoon into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour & 30 minutes or until the top Springs back when lightly touched with fingertip..
- 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..
- Gluten-free option. Can use gluten-free flour, but will need to add 1 3/4 tsp xanthum gum..
- Dairy free option. Can use soy milk instead of cows milk. Or really any kind of milk you prefer..
- Egg free option. Can use an egg replacer. I have an egg powder that I just have to add water to before adding..
Learn how to make Scripture Cake. It is old enough that the scripture is noted with roman numerals chapter number, verse number instead of todays chapter:verse, which I have converted it to. Scripture Cake, a puzzle of a recipe that requires the baker to remember verses of the Bible to No one is quite sure where the cake comes from; Hushpuppy Nation has found an early version in the. I came across this cake some time ago. The recipe is written as a riddle that can be solved by finding ingredients in the. ".. .