A recipe in the writing of T W Moores (her father) in an envelope inscribed in the writing of M L Harris …. The use of “cups” suggests it came by post from Canada, but the date is before emigration. [BJH]

 

Scripture Cake

Take

        4½ cups of I Kings 4,22

        2 cups of Judges 5,25 (last clause)

        2 cups of Jeremiah 6,20 (2nd item)

        2 cups of I Samuel 30,12 (2nd item)

        2 cups of Nahum 3,12

        1 cup of Numbers 17,8

        1½ cups of Judges 4,19 (last clause)

        2 table spoons full of Amos 4,5

        2 table spoons full of I Samuel 14,25

        Season to taste from II Chronicles 9,9

        Pinch of Leviticus 2,13

 

Follow Solomon’s prescription for making good boys in Proverbs 23,14 and you will have a good cake.  

 

Southall Dec 5th 1900

 

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