RECIPE: Historic Clove Cake

20 years ago

Usually I lurk. But I thought this quite good and don't remember seeing anything like it. Leaves a nice clove aftertaste too.

A very old recipe, reportedly Teddy Roosevelt's

favorite.

Clove Cake

1 cup margarine

1 1/4 cups sugar

5 egga

2 cups sifted flour

1 Tbsp. cloves

1 Tbsp. cinnamon

pinch salt

1 cup buttermilk

1 Tbsp. baking soda

Preheat oven to 350. Grease 10" tube pan.

Cream margarine & sugar, beat in eggs one at a time.

Sift flour with cloves, cinnamon & salt. Beat in about

a 1/3.

Stir in 1/2 c. buttermilk. Stir in another 1/3 dry ingredients.

Stir bk. soda into remaining buttermilk and stir into batter

along with remaining dry ingredients. Pour into prepared

pan. Bake 45-50 minutes or until cake pulls away from rim

of pan. Cool 10 min. and remove from pan.

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Comments (7)

ginger_st_thomas
20 years ago
I love cloves. I bet this IS good. Glad you quit lurking, too.
Marigene
20 years ago
Oh, that sounds good...will be making it this weekend. Thanks for sharing.
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Marigene
20 years ago
I tried this cake, was light, where I thought it would be dense, but a little on the dry side; maybe I baked it a a tad longer than needed. Next time, I will take it out a little sooner. The flavor was wonderful and everyone liked it. I drizzled plain vanilla glaze over it.
ginger_st_thomas
19 years ago
I'd have put whipped cream on it. LOL
iris_gal
Original Author
19 years ago
Marigene ~~ don't know why yours seemed dryish???

A cream cheese type frosting is good too.

Ginger and whipped cream! LOL. I bet she's 110 lbs.
ginger_st_thomas
19 years ago
I WISH. . .
woodie
19 years ago
Sounds very good, Iris, I love cloves and spice cakes. Cream cheese frosting for me, please! Or maybe a scoop of vanilla ice cream. That's why I'm not 110 pounds :-)