Merry Christmas (with recipe):

A merry Christmas to all who celebrate - and a festive Kwanzaa, and belated happy Hanukkah, Islamic New Year, winter Solstice, Diwali, or whatever you celebrate! Posting in haste - must clean, pack, and get up home! But I decided to share grandma's raisin cake recipe, as written down by my mom. In our family for three generations now, and too good not to share! Grandma's fruitcake recipe is similar, but calls for nuts, mixed peel, cherries, liquor (sherry, generally) and a dozen eggs - otherwise, triples all the ingredients. The recipe follows: ( Read more... )