Jeremiah Scripture Cake with Burnt Jeremiah Syrup is a recipe shared by a long-time blogging friend. It was popular in the late 1800’s as a way to teach young girls baking skills and encourage them to memorize Bible verses. To determine the ingredients needed to make the cake you will have to look up Bible verses. .
Or maybe your bible knowledge is so outstanding, you can figure it out from memory. But if you are like me, you will need a little help. Get a bible, use cell phone app or click Bible Gateway and do a quick search. Or, you can scroll to the bottom of this post for the answers, but that wouldn’t be any fun 😉
See if you can determine the ingredients from the Bible Verses.
INGREDIENT LIST FROM SCRIPTURE
For the cake:
- 3/4 cup Judges 5:25
- 1 1/2 cup Jeremiah 6:20
- 5 Isaiah 10:14
- 3 cups sifted Leviticus 24:5
- 1/2 teaspoons 2 Kings 2:20
- 3 teaspoons Amos 4:5
- 1 teaspoon Exodus 30:23
- 2 Chronicles 9:9
- 1/2 cup Judges 4:19
- 3/4 chopped Genesis 43:11
- 3/4 cup finely chopped Jeremiah 24:5
- 3/4 cup 2 Samuel 16:1
- Whole Genesis 43:11 for garnish (almonds)
Jeremiah Scripture Cake with Burnt Jeremiah Syrup
I decided to try this recipe after searching and finding many variations
How did you do?
INGREDIENTS:
For the cake:
- 3/4 cup butter (Judges 5:25)
- 1 1/2 cup sugar (Jeremiah 6:20)
- 5 eggs, separated (Isaiah 10:14 )
- 3 cups sifted flour (Leviticus 24:5)
- 1/2 teaspoons salt (2 Kings 2:20)
- 3 teaspoons baking powder (Amos 4:5)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (Exodus 30:23)
- 1/4 teaspoon each 2 nutmeg, ginger, allspice (Chronicles 9:9 spices)
- 1/2 cup milk (Judges 4:19)
- 3/4 chopped nuts (Genesis 43:11)
- 3/4 cup finely chopped figs (Jeremiah 24:5)
- 3/4 cup raisins (2 Samuel 16:1)
- Whole almonds for garnish (Genesis 43:11)
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Grease a 10-inch tube pan or coat with non-stick spray. Dust lightly with flour.
- In a 4-quart mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and spices.
- Mix flour mixture into butter and egg mixture, alternating with milk, until flour is just blended in.
- Beat egg whites until stiff; fold into batter.
- Fold in chopped nuts, figs and raisins.
- Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
- Bake until a cake tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about an hour and ten minutes.
- Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool. After fifteen minutes, turn cake out from pan onto wire rack to cool completely.
- Drizzle with Burnt Jeremiah Syrup.
Burnt Jeremiah Syrup:
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 1/2 cups sugar (Jeremiah 6:20)
- 1/2 cup water (Genesis 24:45)
- 1/4 cup butter (Genesis 18:8)
DIRECTIONS:
- In a 2-quart saucepan over low heat, melt sugar, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. After sugar melts, continue cooking, stirring continuously, until it is a deep golden brown.
- Add water and cook, stirring frequently, until smooth.
- Remove from the heat, add butter and stir till until it melts; allow to cool.
Drizzle burnt Jeremiah syrup over cooled scripture cake and garnish with whole almonds.
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This is a really great idea. I teach Torah at a Jewish day school and love innovative ideas like this to get the kids involved with the text. My only concern, however, is that the instructions might be unclear and might yield a very strange cake. It might be a matter of using a particular translation. The very first ingredient, according to the original text in Hebrew– would be EITHER water, milk, or cheese. Even my English translation doesn't say "butter." Also, how do you get baking powder from the verse in Amos??
Again, really neat idea! God bless!
That cake recipe is great.
Will be fun to do with out high school girls group at church.
Love your blog, and meeting so many nice Christian ladies out here in blogland.
Blessings,
Barbara jean
How ever clever! That certainly won’t go out of style.
Great idea! Thanks.
I think I’m going to try this with my girls I teach at church on Wednesday evenings. Well, at least the recipe part! Let us know how it comes out and I’ll make the cake with them during our sleepover this summer…not enough time during our one hour meeting! Thanks for sharing!
Mrs.H,
What a neat cake!
How wonderful to be incorporating scripture while making the cake!! Thanks soooo much for sharing the recipe.
Many Blessings in Christ,
Miss Jen
P.S. I look forward to hearing how it tasted! 😉
Mmmmmm! Looks Heavenly! Can’t wait to hear the reviews! :~}