30 Day Cake Part 2, Day 10
30 Day Cake Day 10
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1700’s recipe for ELECTION CAKE
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was a common custom in the US to serve election cake. So I thought I’d share one today, in honor of Election Day coming up next week!
Most of the early election cake recipes I’ve found have a few things in common…
1. They’re BIG recipes. These call for ingredients by the pound, and they’re made into loaves…quite a lot of loaves. These are recipes for large groups of people, much like the old fashioned wedding cake recipes.
2. Nearly all call for raisins, and most also call for citron. This recipe includes both.
3. Election cake seems required to be a spice cake—I have yet to read a vintage election cake receipt that doesn’t call for spices, especially nutmeg.
This particular recipe I’m sharing today is from an 1880’s cookbook, but the book lists this recipe as being over 100 years old at the time, so that would make this a recipe from the 1780’s or earlier.
SHOW NOTES:
Here’s a link to the digitized text where you can read the recipe yourself:
((This is a different edition of the same cookbook, which went by the slightly different title: Buckeye cookery :
with hints on practical housekeeping. The recipe is the same, and is also found on the same page (70), and even includes the same typo as my edition.))
OVEN TEMP: 375 is what I would use for this one. This is a hotter oven than we’ve seen in the last couple of recipes.
When we read instructions to heat the oven as for baking bread, that’s about 375, or a little higher. Generally, from the vintage cookbooks I’ve worked from, I’ve found that bread was cooked at slightly lower temperatures that what we commonly use now with our perfectly even heat and commercial yeast.
UNITS OF MEASURE:
Welcome to the “Gill”! If you haven’t cooked from vintage books before, this one may be new to you. In American cooking, in the 1700 and 1800’s, this would have been 1/4 pint. You can use a half cup measure, or (perhaps more accurately) 4 ounces, per gill called for in the recipe.
YEAST:
For potato yeast, I like this recipe from Lydia Child’s The American Frugal Housewife, published in 1832. This is her receipt:
“Potatoes make very good yeast. Mash three large potatoes fine; pour a pint of boiling water over them; when almost cold, stir in two spoonfuls of flour, two of molasses, and a cup of good yeast. This yeast should be used while new.”
(For the starter yeast, you can use a sourdough starter like my recipe here:
OR, if you just want to MAKE the cake already, I’d suggest whipping up that potato starter with a packet of commercial yeast in place of the “cup of good yeast”. Let it really get going, and then make some Election Cake!
WHEW! What did I miss? Let me know if you have questions!
Does this recipe sound as delicious to you as it does to me? I think I have to make this one!
Fruit Cake | Last Minute Christmas Baking - Alcohol Free Recipe
Fruit Cake Recipe | Last Minute Christmas Baking
Fruitcake – Alcohol-Free, a kid-friendly cake that you can have the same day you bake it. Tastes just like the authentic fruitcake (maybe even better!). This cake is moist and stays moist for days, in fact, its flavor keeps getting better with time.
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Ingredients:
1.5 cups cup All purpose flour
1 cup (125 g) Softened Butter
3 Whole Eggs
Dried fruits (cranberries, golden raisins, dark raisins, cherries, berries etc) - 1,1/2 cup
Chopped Almonds
Chopped Pistachios
Chopped Cashews
Lemon zest
Orange Zest
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 cup (150g) Brown Sugar
Pinch of Nutmeg Powder
Pinch of Cinnamon Powder
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The World's Easiest Fruit Cake
I've always had the urge to make a fruit cake during the Holidays, but the ones I've had in the past prevented me from doing so. Time after time, I would go to a Christmas party, try a piece of fruit cake, and walk away in disappointment. It was always moist, possessed a wonderful texture, but I hated the taste not to mention the ingredients.
The cake was more often than not made from some recipe that somebody thought they had to follow. The old concept that wonderful Ole Aunt Betsy made it, so it has to be the best. In reality, nothing could be farther from the truth. We all loved Ole Aunt Betsy, so don't get me wrong about that.
Having said that, I went to work and conjured up my own fruit cake recipe. Made with a combination of my favourite nuts and fruits, some cake mix, and the rest of the required baking elements, it came out just as I wanted it. I have to say, I'm now hooked on fruit cake.
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Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Preparing the nut mixture
2:44 Preparing the cake batter
4:10 Combing the mixtures
4:56 Preparing the baking pans
5:16 The baking process
5:27 The outcome
7:11 Conclusion
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