Great Grandma’s Sausage Cake

Ingredients

Cake

• 1/2 pound sausage, uncooked
• 2 cups packed brown sugar
• 2 cups raisins
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup chopped dates, fruit or nuts
• 2 cups flour
• Butter sauce, rum sauce or confectioner’s sugar, for the top

Butter Sauce

• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 pound butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Steps

1. This cake is best made the day before and mixed by hand.
2. Mix the uncooked sausage with the brown sugar. Cover and let stand 1 to 3 hours, or overnight in the refrigerator.
3. Boil the raisins in the water. Add the sausage mixture and the remaining ingredients and mix.
4. Pour into a greased and floured 9×9-inch pan and bake at 350° for 35 minutes.
5. Top with hot butter sauce, rum sauce or confectioner’s sugar.
6. Butter Sauce: the card’s directions for the sauce are cut off (see Notes).

Notes

Printed “Home for the Holidays” recipe card; directions written in our own words. “Great Grandma’s” is part of the printed title (not one of our family).

The bottom of the card is cut off in the scan: the rest of the Butter Sauce (any more ingredients and its directions) and the Rum Sauce recipe the card mentions aren’t visible. The left edge is also slightly clipped, but the cake directions are all readable.

Caramel Corn is printed on the other side of the same card, so both sides are attached here.

Photo: stock photo found online.

Rosie Lee’s original recipe cards

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