Cooking
Another 'oldie': from the August 1969 Gourmet, White Mountain Cake.
This one came from one my favorite sections, the 'You Asked For It' column.
The cake, apparently, came a bakery in Philadelphia, which had gone out of business.
Interesting cake base. Butter and powdered sugar, creamed. Add lemon juice and vanilla, then alternate between dry (flour, cornstarch, baking powder, mace---I used nutmeg instead---, and salt) and wet (milk and Sherry). Pour into eight-inch cake pans, and bake till golden.
Frost with an Italian meringue: powdered sugar and water, brought to boil, which is then beat into stiff egg whites (this part takes forever...).
(Rustic, isn't it?)
Very light cake, with the Sherry coming through. Matt liked it, and it's a nice change from all the chocolate, over-the-top cakes I'm usually drawn to.
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Cooking
Blowing the dust off...
Another 'oldie': from the August 1969 Gourmet, White Mountain Cake.
This one came from one my favorite sections, the 'You Asked For It' column.
The cake, apparently, came a bakery in Philadelphia, which had gone out of business.
Interesting cake base. Butter and powdered sugar, creamed. Add lemon juice and vanilla, then alternate between dry (flour, cornstarch, baking powder, mace---I used nutmeg instead---, and salt) and wet (milk and Sherry). Pour into eight-inch cake pans, and bake till golden.
Frost with an Italian meringue: powdered sugar and water, brought to boil, which is then beat into stiff egg whites (this part takes forever...).
(Rustic, isn't it?)
Very light cake, with the Sherry coming through. Matt liked it, and it's a nice change from all the chocolate, over-the-top cakes I'm usually drawn to.
- Guinness Stout Chocolate Cake Recipe
Blackout! Sometimes deep, rich, chocolate cakes go by that name, but in this case it was the real thing. Heading down the street with my precious ingredients I noticed the traffic lights weren't working and when I got home, I realized that wasn't...
- Plum Good Cake Recipe
The great thing about becoming an experienced cook is that you can be more creative with recipes. By that I mean you can experiment. Once you know a recipe well you can make changes as you like; but even if you don't know a recipe well, with experience...
- Wartime Wednesdays: Angel Cake
Standard Method of Mixing Cakes Without Fat Cakes without fat depend for leavening largely upon the air beaten into the eggs. The whites and yolks of the eggs may or may not be separated, depending upon the kind of cake. If using the whole egg, beat...
- Retro Breakfast: Gingerbread
Another another recipe from this book, a nice, old-fashioned, Gingerbread cake. Flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, ginger and salt mixed together, with a bit of shortening cut in till crumbly. Set some aside, and to the rest mix in egg, molasses,...
- Ontbijtkoek, Or Dutch Breakfast Cake
Another breakfast treat for Matt, ONTBIJTKOEK, from Perfect Cakes. Didn't take much to sell this cake to Matt...cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, brown sugar and crystallized ginger! Some of his favorite things... Also included, of course...flour,...