Let’s take a look at some dinner recipes, shall we? Over the next few days I’ll post a variety of dinner entree and side dish recipes. This one sounds interesting. I don’t know if I am brave enough to try it, but it does sound sort of good in that 1975 casserole sort of way. Continue reading
Before there was Bisquick and Aunt Jemima, people knew how to make pancakes and waffles from scratch. No Batter Blaster available? Use what your grandma used and rest assured it wasn’t made six or eight weeks ago. I am pretty good with pancakes Continue reading
The Apple Cake recipe sounded so good (and so easy) that I decided I’d give it a try! We cut and peeled 2 large Fuji apples, then I chopped them fine in the mini Cuisinart, yielding 4 cups.
Ingredients assembled and ready to go
The recipe is ridiculously easy once you get through the tedious process of chopping the apples. If you don’t have a food chopper or Cuisinart of some kind, this is a good excuse to go buy one.
My lovely helper
The recipe indicates this should go in a greased pan, so that’s what we did. The batter is reminiscent of a chiffon cake, which does not go into a greased pan. The result, below, is that the edges pulled away and crisped. I do wonder if I didn’t grease the pan and then hung it might it come out differently.
Crispy edges
I also forgot to put in the nuts. Oops. It didn’t make much difference in the taste though. The cake turned out moist, has a nice consistency, but is not real sweet. I have this on the authority of a bakers’ son, and I trust him.
Soo good
I might try adding 1/2 cup of brown sugar in the future, and of course, I’ll remember the nuts.
In the past we have had Apple Sauce Cake, Fresh Apple Cake, and an Applesauce Loaf from 1955. Today we have another Apple Cake, this one featuring fresh apples that have been diced. I imagine diced small would be best, maybe 1/4″ pieces. It also seems very easy and might find its way into my oven soon. I’ll be spending some weekends in the next several months in my 1860s persona, and a fresh apple cake would be the perfect treat for guests. Continue reading
Another pineapple dish, although this one for some reason sounds like it would be pretty good. With so much butter, milk and eggs, this will be a very rich dessert. It seems like the type of cake you might find at a cocktail party sliced into 1/2″ wedges. This is also another one of the recipe cards that was duplicated for some reason. Continue reading
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