Recipe#11343

Title: Beer Cake

From: rosskat@pipeline.com (Joan Ross) 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking 
 Subject: German beer cake 
 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:11:52 GMT 
 Message-ID: <55kpo0$igg@camel4.mindspring.com> 

1 cup crisco shortening
 2 cups lt brown sugar
 2 eggs
 3 cups flour
 1/2 tsp cinnamon
 1/2 tsp cloves
 1/2 tsp allspice
 2 tsp baking soda
 1 cup chopped nuts
 1 cup chopped dates or raisins
 2 8-oz cans cold beer
 Cream shortening sugar and add and blend in eggs. Combine dry
 ingredients and mix well into creamed ingredients. Stir in last
 the nuts, dates and cold beer and mix well.
 Place into a greased tube pan or 2 loaf pans. Bake 350 for 1 hour
 and 20 minutes or tested done. When cold, sift on powdered sugar.