B6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5,1981
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Cakes promote
the holiday spirit
Christmas is the perfect tune to
bake a cake and give it to a friend
or a needy family. Cakes are
perfect gifts that show love
because they take tune and effort
to create, and y6t they are
relatively inexpensive to make.
Most cooks enjoy trying new
cake recipes because few people do
not enjoy eating cake. Therefore, a
hostess seldom goes wrong when
serving it for dessert.
Featured at right is the Easy
Hobday Fruited Coffee Cake. This
cake calls for plenty of ingredients,
yet is considered by most to be
easy to make. Thus the name. Try
it and other cake recipes listed
below.
EASY HOLIDAY
FRUITED COFFEE CAKE
1/3 c. milk
1/2 c. sugar
11. salt
1/2 c. margarine
1/2 c. warm water
2 pkg. dry yeast
2 eggs, beaten
31/2 to 4 c. unsifted flour
1 c. chopped walnuts
Ic. candied fruit
1/2 c. snipped pitted dates
1/2 c. quartered candied cherries
11. ground cinnamon
It. ground ginger
11. grated orange peel
1/21. ground nutmeg
powdered sugar glaze
Scald milk, stir in sugar, salt and
margarine. Cool to lukewarm.
Measure warm water into large
warm bowl. Sprinkle in active dry
yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in
lukewarm milk mixture, eggs and
2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir
m enough additional flour to make
Cook's
Question
QUESTION I would appreciate any kind of recipes that take
coconut oil with parafin.
ANSWER Mrs. Ervin Fassett, who earlierhad requested
recipes for coconut macaroons, can now find a recipe at the end
of the Home on the Range section. Other answers came from
Mrs. William Livingston and Mrs. R. Boyd,
December
Cakes promote friendship
Cookies for Christmas
Popcorn favorites
Beverages for the holidays
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January
Making vegetables exciting
Easy chicken dinners
a stiff batter. Cover bowl; let rise
in warm place, free from draft,
until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/2
hours.
Meanwhile, thoroughly combine
walnuts, candied fruits and peels,
dates, cherries, cinnamon, ginger,
orange peel and nutmeg.
Stir batter down. Mix in nut and
fruit mixture. Spoon evenly into
greased and floured 12-cup Bundt
pan. Cover; let rise until slightly
more than doubled m bulk, about 1
hour and 15 minutes.
Bake at 375 degrees about 30
minutes, or until done. Remove
from pan and cool on wire rack.
Frost with powdered sugar glaze
when cooled.
CARROTCAKE
3 c. grated carrots
4 eggs
11/4 c honey
11/4 c. oil
2 c. whole wheat flour
1 c. unbleached white flour
21. baking powder
11. salt
2t. baking soda
21. cinnamon
1 c. raisins
1 c. chopped walnuts
Sift dry ingredients. Combine
carrots, eggs and honey. Add oil,
and dry ingredients, stirring until
moist and well-mixed. Stir in
raisins and nuts. Pour into greased
floured pan. Bake at 325 degrees
for 40-50 minutes. Cool one hour
before frosting.
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Mrs. R. Zimmerman, Lebanon
Recipe Topics
Christmas time wouldn’t be - same temporary way tut kneading. .
without special homebaked treats such as this recipe allows you to save time and energy for
classic Holiday Fruited Coffee Cake. But this other activities during the holidays,
old-fashioned yeast bread is made the con-
2 c. sugar
2 c. pumpkin
11/2 c. vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 c. flour
11. salt
21. soda
2t. baking powder
21. cinnamon
1/2 c. nuts
11/2 c. coconut
Sift the flour, salt, soda, baking
powder, and cinnamon. Then put
everything m the mixing bowl in
order given. Mix well. Put in a
greased 13x9x2 pan. Bake at 350
degrees for 45 minutes.
Mr*. Wes Stauffer
Ephrata
CHOCOLATE CHIP CAKE
1/2 c. butter
1 c. com syrup
2 eggs
1/2 c. milk
4 oz. chocolate chips
11. vanilla
21. grated orange rind
21/2 c. flour
1/21. salt
21/21. baking powder
Cream shortening and add corn
syrup. Blend eggs. Beat well. Add
sifted dry ingredients alternately
with milk and flavoring. Beat well.
Fold m chips. Pour into greased
layer pans. Bake at 350 degrees for
25 to 30 minutes.
Barbara Rut sell, Pine Bush
WHITE AS SNOW CAKE
21/2 c. sifted cake flour
41/21. baking powder
11/2 c. sugar
11. salt
Ic. milk
1/2 c. shortening
4 egg whites
It. vanilla
Sift all dry ingredients into
mixing bowl. Add shortening, soft,
but not melted and 2/3 of the milk.
Beat until batter is well blended
and glossy, 150 strokes by hand.
Add remaining milk, egg whites,
and flavoring. Beat until smooth.
PUMPKIN CAKE
F. Martin, Lititz
about 150 strokes. Pour into two
greased and floured layer cake
pans or one 9x9 inch square cake
pan. Nuts may be added. Bake at
350 degrees for 30 minutes or until
finished.
Laura Risder, Stevens
CHOCOLATE CAKE
2 eggs, beaten
2 c. sugar
Ic. black coffee
Ic.milk
1/2 c. oil
21. baking soda
11. baking powder
1/21. salt
ft. vanilla
2 c. all-purpose flour
3/4 c. cocoa
Beat eggs and sugar until
smooth. Add oil, coffee and milk,
then add flour, baking powder and
soda, salt, cocoa and vanilla.
Bake in 350 degree oven for 35
minutes.
Mrs. Luke Wise, Lebanon
DATE CAKE
2 c. sugar
1 c. oleo or butter
2 eggs
2t. vanilla
3 c. sifted cake flour
IT. baking soda
2 c. boiling water
2 c. chopped dates
2 c. chopped nuts
Pour boiling water over dates
and stir in baking soda. Set aside.
Cream sugar and shortening. Add
eggs. Beat well. Add flour alter
nately with date mixture. Add
nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for one
hour. Use an angel cake pan or
Bundt cake pan to bake it in.
Mrs. Robert Moore, Hopewell, N. J.
VERY MOIST
FUDGE CAKE
1/3 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
1/21. vanilla
2 sq. unsweetened chocolate OR 6
T. cocoa and 2 T. fat
I egg
Sift together:
11/4 c. flour
1/21. soda
1/21. salt
3/4 c. water
1/2 c. semisweet choc, chips
Cream sugar and shortening till
light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla
and cooled chocolate. Add egg and
beat well. Add dry ingredients
alternately to cream mixture with
3/4 c. water beating after each
addition.
Spread in baking dish. Sprinkle
with chocolate chips and bake at
350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool m
pan.
Nancy Lort, Delta
APPLE CAKE
lc. white sugar
1 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 c. shortening
lc. cold water
21. salt
21. soda
21. vanilla
3 c. flour
4 c. finely chopped apples
Shred apples, sprinkle with a
little sugar. Let stand. Mix others
and fold in apples. Sprinkle 1 T.
brown sugar and cinnamon on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.
Tastes great with whipped
cream or ice cream.
J. Sarver, MiUerstown
BALTIMORE
PEACH CAKE
legg
Ic. sugar
Ic.nulk
IT. butter
11/21. baking powder
21/2 c. flour
Mix first 5 items together. Beat
well. Add silted flour. Beat. Divide
batter into two 9x9 cake pans. Slice
peaches and place over the batter
close together. Then sprinkle all
cinnamon and add 10-15
smalPpieces of butter over the top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Wilmale Thomas, Carlisle
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