January 09, 2007
Welcome
Hi Everybody!Well, here it is 2007 -- Can you believe it? Where does the time go?
May you have a wonderful New Year with many great things to look forward to.
What's up with the weather?
Here in Peterborough, in central Canada, we have yet to see any significant snowfall, the temperature steadfastly remains above freezing, and the lawns are still somewhat green; it was so unusual to experience a Green Christmas. We have never before experienced a warm winter like this one!
This month's newsletter features a classic Spice Cake Recipe from the Old South, plus a bonus Rural Cookie Recipe that is very easy to make. There is something about eating a slice of homemade spice cake that warms a winter's day.
Till next month, enjoy the old-fashioned recipes.
Warm regards,
Don
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Website Updates
Here are this month's updates:Cake Baking Tips
Southern cooks are famous for their delicious dessert cakes, so I went right to the source for some old-time, practical tips on cake baking.Click here to visit the Cake Baking Tips page.
Easter Dessert Recipes
In response to your requests, I am now readying several new pages of dessert recipes suitable for Easter. The new Easter pages will be added soon, so keep watching.Click here to visit the Easter Dessert Recipes page.
And More New Pages To Come
See the next edition for more new pages. Coming soon.Old Fashioned Recipe
Old South Spice Cake Recipe
Spice cake is an old-fashioned favorite, and this old Southern recipe makes one of the richest, most flavorful spice cakes you have ever tasted. Enjoy.This old-fashioned Spice Cake recipe is taken from the book "Dishes & Beverages of the Old South" by Martha McCulloch-Williams, published by McBride Nast & Company, New York, in 1913.
Spice Cake Recipe
Cream a coffee cup of butter, with two cups yellow sugar and one cup black molasses. Add to it one after the other, seven egg yolks, beating hard between. When all are in, add one tablespoonful whiskey, or brandy, one teaspoonful grated chocolate, one teaspoonful each of powdered cloves, allspice, ginger, mace, and cinnamon, a grated nutmeg, and half a saltspoonful of powdered black pepper. Add also a pinch of salt, and the barest dusting of paprika.
If whiskey is for any reason disapproved or unavailable, use strong, clear coffee instead, putting in two spoonfuls, and leaving out the chocolate.
Beat all together hard for ten minutes, then add four scant cups flour browned in the oven but not burned. Sift after browning, adding to it two teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat hard for five minutes after the flour is all in, then pour in a deep, well greased pan, lined with buttered paper. Heat oven, let it rise ten minutes with the oven door open, then close door and bake in quick heat until done through.
Rural Cookie Recipe
Here is bonus cookie recipe from Great-Grandma's day that you will have fun trying. These old-time Rural Cookies are very easy to make and taste delicious.The recipe is taken from an old, unidentified newspaper clipping.
Break an egg in a teacup, put in three tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one of sour cream, a little bit of baking soda, then fill up with sugar; mix soft; shape; bake in a quick oven.
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 past issues.
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Thought For The Day
"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first!"--Anon.
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