December 06, 2005
Edited Archival Version
Welcome
Hi Everybody!We are now into our winter weather here in central Ontario. We are back to wearing overcoats and winter boots and scraping the morning frost off the car windows. As I sit writing this ezine, there is a fresh, white carpet of snow covering the ground outside. It really looks as though we shall have a traditional white Christmas this year.
Last weekend, we put up our outdoor Christmas lights and installed our friendly snowman at the front door to welcome guests. Vicki finished baking her old-fashioned Christmas cakes yesterday evening, and the wonderful aroma of freshly baked fruitcakes permeated the house. It's a wonderful time of the year.
This year Vicki's brother Brian will be spending Christmas with us. He works as an administrator in the small town of Igloolik, far north in the Canadian Arctic. He is bringing two Inuit teenagers with him, and it may be the first time that they have seen a real Christmas tree. The traditional Christmas treats that Vicki has prepared will be all new to them. It will be a lot of fun.
Enjoy reading December's newsletter and thanks for visiting my website.
Sincerely,
Don
P.S.
Merry Christmas Everybody!
"It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, 'God Bless Us, Every One!'"--Charles Dickens
Website Updates
Sorry, no new pages to report this month. I was hard at work, though, catching up on some behind-the-scenes cosmetic touches to the website that really needed doing. Unfortunately, the changes are barely noticeable to the viewer. I did add a few new bits to some of the pages, however, but not enough to point out, so I will let you have the fun of finding them.Christmas Recipes
Just a reminder: There are lots of Christmas dessert recipes featured on my website, and there is still plenty of time to bake some old-time treats for your family to enjoy over the holidays. Be sure to check out all the old-fashioned recipes for Christmas cakes, fruitcakes, plumb pudding, sugar cookies and more.Click here to visit the Christmas Dessert Recipes page.
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Click here to visit My SBI! Recipe page.
Old Fashioned Recipe
White Mountain Cake Recipe
This old-fashioned recipe is taken from the book "Dr. Chase's Third, Last and Complete Receipt Book, Memorial Edition" by Dr. Alvin Wood Chase, M.D., published by F. B. Dickerson Company, Detroit and Windsor, in 1891.This celebrated dessert cake recipe makes a delicious cake you will enjoy serving on any occasion. Indeed, a white mountain cake makes any occasion special!
Granulated sugar, 3 cups; butter, 1 cup; 5 eggs; sweet milk, 1 cup; flour, 3 cups; cream of tartar, 2 teaspoonfuls; baking soda, 1 teaspoonful; salt, 1 pinch.
Directions: Beat the butter, sugar, and yolks of the eggs to a cream; mix soda in the milk and the cream of tartar in the flour; add the whites just before the flour. Bake in jelly cake tins, browning a little.
In Place of Jelly: Take the whites of 2 eggs, a little water, and the proper amount of powdered sugar to make thick for icing, beat together and with a knife spread over the top of each cake. Grate a fresh coconut and mix it with more sugar, and sprinkle it over the cakes; then lay-up, finishing the top the same.
Remarks. -- Especially applicable for use upon occasions when ice cream is to be served.
Would You Like More Cake Recipes?
Why not check out all the old-fashioned cake recipes published on my website? You are sure to find something that is delicious and appealing.Click here visit the Cake Recipes page.
More Old-Fashioned Dessert Recipes
You will find more old-fashioned recipes published in past issues of the Easy Dessert Recipes Ezine.Click here to access Old Fashioned Recipes from back issues.
Featured Resource
Classic Dessert Cookbooks
In case you are a new subscriber and missed last month's issue, I would like to take the opportunity again to thank everyone who has purchased one or more of my dessert cookbooks. I greatly appreciate it, and I am so pleased to hear that you enjoy reading them and trying the many old-time recipes.eBook sales make it possible for me to continue this website. If you have not had a chance to download your eBook yet, please do so now, and enjoy a season of classic desserts. I would really appreciate your support.
These old-time recipe cookbooks make great Christmas presents. Simply download the eBook and burn its PDF file onto a CD. I include a color CD cover within each eBook that you can print out and insert into a CD case for gift giving.
Click here to download your dessert cookbooks.
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Thought For The Day
"The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it."--Andy Rooney
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