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Old-Fashioned Red Velvet Cake
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Red Velvet Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 beaten eggs
- 2 oz. red food coloring
- 3 tbsp. Nestle’s Quick cocoa
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour, sifted 3 times
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp. baking soda dissolved in 1 tbsp. vinegar
Preparation
Cream shortening and sugar; add beaten eggs. Make paste of coloring and cocoa. Add to creamed mixture. Add salt, vanilla and flour alternately with… Continue reading
Chocolate-Date Cake With Pecan Sauce
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Ingredients
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 cup dates, chopped
- 1 cup shortening, butter or margarine
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 2 tbsp. cocoa
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 6-oz. pkg. chocolate bits
- 1 cup chopped nuts (opt.)
Preparation
Dissolve baking soda in boiling water; pour over dates and cool. Cream shortening with sugar and eggs until fluffy. Sift together flour, cocoa and salt. Add alternately with date… Continue reading
Portuguese Cake
Making Portuguese Cake
(Focaccia alla Portoghese)
Cake Ingredients
- Sweet almonds, five ounces.
- Granulated sugar, five ounces.
- Potato meal, one and a half ounce.
- Three eggs.
- One big orange or two small.
Preparation
First mix the yolks of the eggs with the sugar, then add the flour, then the almonds skinned and chopped fine, then the orange juice (through a colander) then a taste of orange peel. Finally add to the mixture the whites of the eggs well beaten. Put in… Continue reading
Farina Cake
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Farina Cake Recipe
Pasticcini di semolino
- Farina, six and a half ounces.
- Sugar, three and a half ounces.
- Pine-seeds, two ounces.
- Butter, a small piece.
- Milk, one quart.
- Four eggs.
- A pinch of salt.
- Taste of lemon peel.
Preparation
- Cook the farina in the milk and when it begins to thicken pour the pine-seeds, previously chopped fine and pounded with the sugar, then the butter and the rest,
- When the mixture has completely cooled, put… Continue reading
Louisiana Chocolate Cake
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Louisiana Chocolate Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 3/4 cup boiling water
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation
Sift flour, cocoa and baking soda together. Cream sugar and shortening. Add unbeaten eggs to creamed mixture. Then add dry ingredients, alternately with the buttermilk. Add boiling water and then vanilla. Mix well; pour into a prepared 9 x… Continue reading
Cake Madeleine (Pasta Maddalena)
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How to Make Cake Madeleine
(Pasta Maddalena)
Ingredients
- Sugar, four and a half ounces,
- Flour, three ounces,
- Butter, one ounce,
- Egg-yolks, four,
- Whites of eggs, three,
- A pinch of bi-carbonate of soda,
- A taste of lemon peel.
Preparation
First mix and stir the yolks with the sugar and when they have become whitish, add the flour and stir for fifteen minutes more. Mix with the butter, melting or softening it fine if it is hard and finally… Continue reading
Coconut Cake Supreme
Ingredients
2 3/4 cups sifted cake flour
4 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup butter or shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 egg whites, at room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. almond extract
1 cup milk or coconut milk
Preparation
Measure and sift flour, baking powder and salt three times. Cream shortening well; add 1 cup sugar and blend well. Beat egg whites until fluffy; gradually add remaining sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Add flavorings… Continue reading
Quince Cake
Quince Fruit
Quinces are a fruit related to both apples and pear. Delightful in dessert recipes (delectable when cooked, not raw).
Here is a Quince Cake Recipe
Cotognata
The ingredients
- six pounds of quinces
- four pounds of granulated sugar.
Preparation
- Place quinces in a pot and cover with water on the stove. Heat water and boil until the quinces begin to crack. Remove them, then skin and scrape them to gather all the pulp.
- Rub pulp through a sieve. Place… Continue reading
Ribbon Brownies
Ribbon Brownie Recipe
Brownies are everyone’s favorite. Frequently, they are one of the first recipes a beginning baker tries. Many of us remember helping our mom bake brownies as a child. Here is a delicious twist on an old favorite.
Ribbon Brownie Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 3 eggs, well beaten
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup crushed pineapple, drained
- 2… Continue reading
Mantua Tart
(aka Torta Mantovana)
- Flour, six ounces.
- Sugar, six ounces.
- Butter, five ounces.
- Sweet almonds and pine-seeds, two ounces.
- One whole egg.
- Four egg-yolks.
- A taste of lemon peel.
First work well with a ladle the eggs with the sugar, then pour the flour little by little, still stirring, and finally the butter, previously melted in a double steamer (bain-marie). Put the mixture in a pie-dish greased with butter and sprinkled with flour or bread crumbs ground. On top put the… Continue reading
