Grandmother’s Cake

Grandmother's Cake

1 egg
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sour milk (you use vinegar to make your own)
1 teaspoon soda (that's baking soda)
1/2 cup fruit, raisins, dates, currants, etc.
Allspice and cinnamon to taste
Flour to make a medium batter

Cream butter and sugar together. Add egg, beat thoroughly. Add soda to sour milk and alternate with flour. Add spice and fruit last. Bake in a loaf tin at 375 degrees F 40 minutes.

Mrs. Jay McClure
A Vermont Cook book by Vermont Cooks, 1958

You can watch a YouTube video on how to make sour milk: https://youtu.be/IE12MYPt6lg?si=-BZVZh4FDOwUBbNE