English Tea Cake
Ingredients
1 C. butter, softened
1 C. sugar
2 eggs
2 scant C. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Tbsp. cherry juice
12 maraschino cherries
1/2 C. white raisins or currants
Cooking Instructions
Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Grease and flour a small tube pan. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, beating thoroughly. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Gradually add to butter mixture. Add vanilla and cherry juice. Fold in cherries and raisins. Bake 1 1/4 hours.
"I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God.'" (Exodus 16:
