Whiskey Cake

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• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1/4 tsp soda
• 1 lb seedless raisins
• 2 cups chopped pecans (walnuts will do, but pecans are better)
• 1/4 cup bourbon
• 1/4 cup milk

Cream the butter with the sugar and add the beaten eggs. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg, and add it to the butter mixture. Then add the milk. Now put the soda into the molasses and mix it up and add that. Then add the raisins, nuts and whiskey. Pour it into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 300 degrees for 2 hours.

NOTE: Whiskey Cake keeps practically forever, wrapped in aluminum foil. in your refrigerator. It gets better and better, too, if you buck it up once in a while by stabbing it with an icepick and injecting a little whiskey with an eyedropper.