Recipe from 1922 Meets 2017 Teen.
Big shout-out to the Pacific Grove High School Culinary One class! Students create a digital portfolio of recipes they make over the course of the year outside of class, which is a brilliant way to get them into the kitchen. This month my daughter chose a yellow cake recipe from the Good Housekeeping’s Book of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries, 1922 – with a seasonal decorative twist.
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 Tbs. cold water
- 1 cup flour (All-purpose Gluten Free flour)
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 Tbs. cornstarch
- 1 tsp. lemon extract
Unfortunately, we didn’t have lemon extract so substituted vanilla extract. Lemon extract would have been better. We’re a gluten free house by allergy, so she substituted a cup of all-purpose gluten free flour in the same proportion as the original recipe and it came out fine. Very moist. Used a butter and powder sugar frosting. Decorations were compliments of the local box store.
Her thoughts on the whole process?
It takes a long time to make a cake from scratch – but it tastes way better than the box mixes. (Based on my observation, at least half the time went into decoration.)
Huge success overall!
Convivial Supper 
WOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!! How cool is this???????????????? Can I post it on fb????
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Convivial Supper wrote:
> Convivial Supper posted: ” Big shout-out to the Pacific Grove High School > Culinary One class! Students create a digital portfolio of recipes they > make over the course of the year outside of class, which is a brilliant way > to get them into the kitchen. This month my daughter chos” >
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🙂 Of course! It came out really well!!!
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Cakes from scratch are WAY better than a box mix! If, you have the time! That cake looks amazing!
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Thank you so much! It is FANTASTIC!
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Most cookbooks in the first half of the 20th century had a sunshine cake recipe. It was a well known yellow cake that had more than 2 eggs to make it a darker yellow and a finer crumb. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
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I didn’t know that! 4 eggs did seem like a lot. And it is very yellow. I figured that’s why it called for lemon extract, too.
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