I Tried a 120-Year-Old Cake Recipe with No Instructions

Discover a forgotten gem from a 1905 community cookbook! In this episode of The Old Cookbook Show, we're making a Canadian Coffee Cake—a rich, spiced cake packed with molasses, raisins, candied peel, and a surprising touch of coffee. Despite the name, this isn't your typical coffee cake! Join us as we decode this historic recipe, improvise with missing instructions, and bake a dense, fruit-filled cake that's perfect with tea. Whether you're a vintage recipe enthusiast, a fan of historical baking, or just love learning about culinary curiosities, this one's for you!



COFFEE CAKE.
Use one cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of molasses, one-half cupful of butter, one cupful of strong coffee, one egg, or yolks of two, one heaping teaspoonful of soda in flour, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves, two pounds of raisins, one-fourth of a pound of cit-ron. Soften the butter, beat with the sugar, add the eggs, spices, molasses and coffee, then the flour, and lastly the fruit dredged with flour.
MRS. H. O. PAYNE.




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