This recipe cut from a magazine is simple and versatile: you
can use it to both layer and top your cake. While it sounds really good I
wonder what flavor of cake it would go best with. As a side note I compared a
couple of names mentioned in the recipe; in my house we call a “whip” a whisk,
and a “beater” a mixer.
Friday
Wednesday
Burnt Sugar Cake
I honestly had never heard of Burnt Sugar Cake before
coming across this next recipe. By snooping around the internet I found it was
very popular during the early to mid twentieth century at church and senior
functions.
As is the case with many of these recipes there are no
baking instructions, because the person who wrote them carried that info in her
head. To get burnt sugar, my research found, you melt it in a pan on the stove.
All of the recipes I read online called for white sugar, while this one uses
brown sugar. For a complete recipe try this
one.
Monday
Red Devil's Food Cake
Friday
Tea Cakes
There are different variations of tea cake seemingly all over the world. This American
version seems pretty similar to others of the country, the biggest difference being
whether to frost them or not. After reading some recipes on the web I gather
that one eats their tea cakes plain in private, and frosted for company. The
pink icing mentioned at the end of this recipe indicates these are company
cakes.
Wednesday
Spice Cake
Now this spice cake sounds delicious! Adding cinnamon,
allspice, nutmeg and cloves makes it the real deal. The reverse of the card
mentions adding raisins or nuts as an additional ingredient, which I think I
would do.
Monday
Brown Stone Cake
The oldest Brown Stone Cake recipe I found on the internet
was dated 1905, while putting the words together to form "Brownstone" Cake travels back to at least the mid 19th century on the east coast and then
beyond that to Europe. If you stop your search at New York City you would
believe the recipe was named after the rowhouses found there, but I think it is
the density and color of the cake that led to it being named in Europe after
the sandstone building material found there. When the recipe came across the
pond to America, first on the east coast, the name became associated with the
buildings made out of local sandstone, called brownstone. All of that is my
educated guess, so I would love to hear other theories.
Friday
Coffee Cake
Wednesday
Best Economy Date Cake
My best guess is the “Eco” in the title is short for
“Economy.” Sounds like a pretty decent cake and simple to throw together. Since
I don’t like dates I might substitute raisins or some other fruit.
Monday
Made-in-a-Minute Chocolate Cake
There is that creative spelling of chocolate again!
This made-in-a-minute
cake sounds good, and you could even use
this frosting to top it with. However, once you get to the
backside of the recipe you see it will take more than a minute to make it.Friday
Swans Down Silver Cake
Swans Down Cake Flour has been around since 1894, and seems
to have a superior reputation among those who like to bake cakes from scratch.
This recipe is pretty straightforward, with the lemon
frosting making for what sounds like a light, sweet cake overall. Visit the Swans Down site for
more recipes and baking tips.Wednesday
Crisp Cookies
We are finding that some of these recipes don’t have baking
instructions, which usually means the author kept it in her head. Most of the
cookie recipes so far would bake well at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
I flipped through my own recipe box and many of the ones I
hand wrote or cobbled together from various sources do not have cooking
instructions, because I already know what to do after assembling the
ingredients.Monday
Apricot Pineapple Jam
This sounds like a delicious, and simple, homemade jam. The
missing part of the instructions involves canning the jam, which must have been
assumed and so not included.
The nine jars mentioned are the glass pint sized jam and
jelly variety. Fill the prepared (boiled) jars almost to the top, screw on the
lids, and submerge in boiling water for 10 minutes. Remove, let them cool and
then press the middle of the lids. If they don’t give, the jars are sealed. Any
that have springy lids will need to be refrigerated.Friday
Apple Krisp
Fall is a great time of the year to make anything with fresh
apples. Recently we finished putting up over 30 quarts of applesauce, apple
butter and apple pie filling. We give away much of it in holiday gift baskets,
along with homemade bread with the applesauce as one of the ingredients and
homemade dry soup mixes and various other goodies. The baskets are always a big
hit with family and friends.
The only problem with this recipe, besides a lack of baking
instructions, is the absence of apples!
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