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by Janet Forest
(Cumberland House, Saskatchewan ,Canada)

When I was a little girl growing up every Christmas my grandma would make her best ever cake, but this is no ordinary cake. Grandma would prepare her dry ingredients and her wet ones to add together. When she was done she would stuff her mix into a fabric something like a soft canvas. She would boil this onto a big huge pot for about four hours. When her cake was done, we eat this tasty cake after our christmas meal and it was so delicious. I am sorry I cannot share how she prepared and what she put into her mix, all i remember it was a traditional cake in a fabric and boiled with love. This is an old cree traditional cake.