Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cake. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Red Cake


 Recipe for Red Cake:

Cream
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups cugar
2 eggs

Add
2 oz red food coloring (that seems like a lot)
1 tsp cocoa - mix well

Add 2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda

Bake at 360 degrees

Found in "Cooking With the Pennsylvania Dutch" edited by A. Monroe Aurand. Published by The Aurand Press, 1946.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Orange Sponge Cake


Recipe for orange sponge cake:

Beat whites of three eggs stiff.
Add 3 yolks, one at a time, beating constantly.
Add - gradually - one cup of sugar, grated rind of one orange and one-third cup of orange juice.
Fold in one cup flour, sifted with one teaspoon baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Turn into buttered shallow pan, and bake in a moderate over - 25 or 20 minutes.

Found in "St. Nicholas' Travels" by Hertha Pauli. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1945.

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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Mocha Cake Filling

Recipe for Mocha Cake Filling:

Cream 2 tablespoons of butter with 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 teas vanilla
3 teas cocoa and sufficient strong coffee to make the mixture of spreading consistency. Beat until smooth and glossy.

Found in "The Every-Day Cook Book" by Mrs. E. Neil. Published by Donohue and Co., no date.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

White Cake


Recipe for white cake:

1/2 c. butter or margerine
1 c. sugar
1 egg well beaten
1/2 ts salt
1 c. milk
1 c flour
4 ts powder (bkg)
1 1/2 c. huckleberries
flavoring

Cream fat and sugar
Add egg
Mix and sift dry ingredients, reserving 1/4 c. flour to dredge berries. Add alternately with milk
Fold in dredged berries

Bake in shallow pan 350 degrees 30 or 45 mins

Found in "Barnaby Rudge" by Charles Dickens. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1875.


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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Poppy Seed Cake



Recipe for Poppy Seed Cake -

1 box instant vanilla pudding
1 box yellow cake mix
4 eggs
1 tea nutmeg
3/4 c oil
3/4 c sherry
Handful poppy seed

Beat 5 min
Bake 350 degrees 45 min


Found in "Louisa May Alcott: Dreamer and Worker" by Belle Moses. Published by D. Appleton, 1909.


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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Texas Sheet Cake and Frosting



Recipe for "Texas Sheet Cake + Frosting"

2 c sugar
2 c flour

In small pan mix:

2 stick Oleo
4 T cocoa
1 c H20

Bring to a rapid boil and pour over sugar and flour mixture

1/2 cup buttermilk
2 beaten eggs
1/2 tsp
1 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla

350 degrees 25 minutes

(Frosting)

Bring to boil
1/2 c butter
3 1/2 T cocoa
1/3 c milk

1 box P sugar (I think it should be confectioner's sugar)
1 tsp vanilla

Add sugar, beat in mixer
add vanilla
beat til creamy, add nuts

Pour over hot cake


Found in "The House of Cobwebs" by Mary Reisner. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1944.



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Monday, January 21, 2013

Applesauce Cake

Applesauce Cake (1 egg)

1 3/4 c cake flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinn.
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 c shortening
1 c sugar
1 egg, well beaten
2 c chopped nuts
2 c chopped raisins
3/4 c strained hot applesauce, unsweetened

Sift flour, add b. powder, soda, salt and spices and sift three times, Cream butter, add sugar.

Mix thoroughly. Add egg, raisins, nuts, beat well.

Add flour mixture, alternately with apple...(sauce)... a small amount at a time.

Bake into a greased (pan loaf) 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 in a med. oven 350 degrees 1 hour or until done.


Found in "Pillsbury Kitchens Family Cookbook" published by Pillsbury, 1979.



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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Fluffy Gold Cake



Recipe for "Gold Fluffy Cake" -

Sift together into bowl:


  • 2 cups sifted soft as silk
  • 1 1/3 cups sugar
  • 3 tsp double action B. powder
  • 1 tsp salt


Add:


  • 1/3 cup high grade shortening
  • 2/3 cup milk
  • 1/2 tsp lemon ext.
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla


Medium Speed 2 min

Add:


  • 1/2 to 2/3 cup unbeatened eggs (2 large)
  • 1/4 tsp red food coloring of desired


Beat 2 more min

Temp: 350 degress

(Page two seems to be from a different recipe) 
If neccessary, add a little water to make 1 1/2 cups juice

Bring juice to boiling, stir in 1 cup sigar, 3 tbsp cornstarch

Cook and pour over berries in pie shell. Chill about two hours. Remove from refridgerator about 20 minutes befor service and decorate with whipped cream.

Found in "Foxfire 2" edited by Eliot Wigginton. Published by Anchor Press, 1973.


Monday, June 25, 2012

Busy Day Cake


A rather confusing and incomplete recipe for "Busy Day Cake" -

Sift 3 cups Swans Down cake flour, 4 teaspoons Calumet baking powder, 1/4 t. salt, 2 cups sugar three times.

10 t. melted butter a little cool
4 eggs fill cup with milk then add 1 cup more milk
1 t. vanilla

Put all together abd beat three minutes, bake in 3 layers 25 minutes


Found in "Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking, Volume 10" published by BHaG, 1973.


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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Jewish Apple Cake: Update - Someone made it



Jewish Apple Cake

4 lge. Apples
5 tbspn. Sugar
3 tspn. Cinnamon
-------- let stand

3 cup Flour
3 tspn. Baking Powder
1/2 tspn. Salt
-------- sift together

4 eggs
2 1/2 tspn Vanilla
1 cup Oil
1/4 cup Orange Juice
2 1/2 cups sugar

1. Peal & slice Apples add Sugar & Cinnamon.

2. Make batter, add dry siften ingredients. Mix well with wooden spoon.

3. Grease Tube Pan. Arrange batter and apples in layers, ending with batter.

4. Bake for 1 3/4 hr. until knife comes out clean. 350° oven.

Note: Cake tastes better after 2 days.


Found in "Japan and The Far East Conference" by Henry W. Taft. Published by Macmillan, 1921.


 Update: Jenny was awesome enough to try out this recipe.

Here are the results.


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Saturday, October 17, 2009

White Cake

White Cake (Dorothy Gifford's)

2 1/2 cups flour
1 2/3 cup sugar
Salt
3 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/4 cup milk
2/3 cup shortening
Vanilla
3 eggs

Bake 350° - 25-30 min.


Found in "The Perfect Mile" by Neal Bascomb. Published by Mariner Books, 2005.





Saturday, October 10, 2009

Christmas Cake


Ingredients: 1 cup of water 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup of sugar 1 cup brown sugar lemon juice 4 large eggs nuts 1 bottle Jose Quervo(sp) 2 cups of dried fruit

Directions: Sample the Quervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Quervo again. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the Quervo is still OK. Try another cup... just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the frigging fruit off the floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the Quervo to check for tonsiticity. Next, sift the two cups of salt, or something. Whos giveshz a shit. Check the Jose Quervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefing. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Jose Quervo and hug the cat.

Cherry Mistmas!


Found in "Remember Me" by Laura Hendrie. Published by Henry Holt, 1999.

ED: I think I forgot to add "FWD: FWD: FWD: LOL: FWD:" to the title.