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!
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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