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Cake walk
Baked goodies cany on Christmas traditions
By Albert Schmid
Food Critic
Ever wondered how fruitcake be
came a holiday tradition? It seems
that if there’s one thing you can count
on during the holiday season, it’s that
you’ll always get stuck with
a fruitcake you’re not
going to eat.
A former room
mate and I have ,
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the same fruit- m
cake back and m
forth for the H
last five years. «
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scheduled to get W
it this year.) %
I’m sure some
people like fruit
cake, but I am not ”
one of them. It is said
that the longer you age a
fruitcake, the better the flavor be
comes. I don’t know about anyone
else, but I would have a real problem
cracking in to a 12-year-old fruit
cake. Still, I can’t help but wonder
who thought up the whole idea and
why.
As it turns out, the fruitcake is a
British contribution to the culinary
arts. The earliest fruitcake recipe I
could find was called a “Good Holi
day Cake” in Mrs. Beeton’s Book of
Household Management. It was the
creme de la creme of British Cookery
in its day—1861.
And there’s evidence that fruit
cake may have come in to the culinary
picture even earlier than 1861.
Every family seems to have its
traditional holiday cake, such as po
tato cake, fresh apple cake, rum cake
and yes, the fruitcake.
Potato cake
My family’s favorite was my grand
mother Nancy’s Potato Cake. It has a
unique flavor worth trying, but like
fruitcake, it’s not for everyone.
The ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter or margarine
3 cups flour
3/4 cup port wine
4 eggs (separated and both beaten)
1 cup cold mashed potatoes
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon allspice
1 16-ounce box raisins
4 tablespoons cocoa
2 cups chopped pecans
The directions:
Pre-heat the oven to 250 degrees.
Place a pan of water on the bottom
rack of the oven to keep the cake
moist. While cooking don’t let the
water cook dry.
To start the cake, cream the
sugar and the butter. Add
the port wine, egg yolks,
Hk and mashed potatoes.
■L Mix until totally in
corporated. Add all
i the dry ingredients
| and mix well.
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w peat with the other
f half until the egg
4 white is well-in
corporated.
Place the mixture
■P^ in a well-greased
bundt pan and bake the
cake for 90 minutes to two
hours, lo test, put a tootnpicK in to
the center. If the toothpick has a little
stickiness to it, the cake is just right.
Don’t wait until the toothpick comes
out dry.
Fresh apple cake
The fresh apple cake is also a really
nice alternative to the traditional fruit
cake. If you like spicecake you will
really like this cake. This is an adap
tation of a cake recipes given to me by
my third grade teacher, Sue Holmsley,
in San Antonio, Texas.
The ingredients:
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 apples, cored, peeled, and sliced
1 cup chopped pecans
The directions:
Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Mix the eggs, oil, and vanilla until
well-beaten. Add all of the dry ingre
dients and mix well. Add the apples
and pecans, and stir in, by hand, until
well-incorporated. Pour intoa greased
bundt pan and bake for about an hour
or until you can poke the cake with a
toothpick and have it emerge clean.
Rum cake
If you like the brandy flavor of
fruitcake, but not the fruit, a Rum
Cake might be right down your alley.
This is a fun cake to make as well as
eat.
Cake ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 and 1/2 half cups butter or mar
garine
3 eggs
1/2 cup dark rum (80 proof)
3 and 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Glaze ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark rum (80 proof)
The directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
For the cake, cream the butter and
sugar. Add the eggs one at a time
until totally incorporated, then add
the rum. Mix until you have an even
batter. Add the dry ingredients, and
mix well. Then add the nuts and mix.
Pour the mixture into a greased bundt
pan. Bake for 45 minute to an hour or
until you can finish the toothpick test
with dry results. For the glaze, melt
the butter in a pan. Add the water and
the sugar and boil for five minutes,
making sure to stir the whole time.
Remove the mixture from the heat
and add the rum. Pour the sauce over
the cake a little at a time, allowing it
to soak in.
White fruitcake
Don’t like the traditional dark
fruitcake? Try this one.
The ingredients:
4 cups flour
1 and 1/3 cup pecans
1 and 1/3 cups white raisins
1 and 1/3 cups candied cherries
1 cup shredded coconut
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
5 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup brandy
The directions:
Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Mix the pecans and the fruit into
the flour. Add the baking soda and
mix. Cream the butter and the sugar
together. Add the eggs one at a time
until all are used. Then add the va
nilla and the brandy, and mix until
incorporated. Add the dry mixture to
the wet mixture and blend. Pour
evenly into one greased bundt pan or
two greased bread pans. Bake for
about an hour.
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Christmas by the numbers
1. Number of singing Santa
telegrams delivered by Tune
a-gram last holiday season:
10.
2. Cost of giving a young
ster a “Gaucho,” a life-size
child’s off-road vehicle, ca
pable of driving 5 miles per
hour, with real working lights,
moving pistons and a re
chargeable 12-volt battery:
$379.99.
4. Quarts of eggnog ex
pected to be sold over the holi
days at Goodrich Dairy, 1126
South St.: 50.
5. Quarts of eggnog ex
pected to be consumed by lo
cal band Plastik Trumpet over
the holidays: 25.
7. Strings of burgundy-col
ored garland the Target Store
on 48th Street will sell this
Christmas: 100.
9. Women who have bought
red velvet Santa bikinis, with
white fur trim and a matching
hat, at Boog’s Rock ‘N Roll
Boutique: 6.
10. Price of an unopened
“Mannheim Steamroller Christ
mas” vinyl album at the Good
will: 69 cents.
11. Price of an unopened
Mannneim steamroller onnsi
mas” compact disc at Camelot
Records in Gateway Mall:
$13.96.
12. Fruitcakes made every
3 days at Super Saver, 2662
Cornhusker Highway: 50.
15. People fed by the
People’s City Mission last
Christmas: 809.
16. Decorations expected to
be donated to the KFRX Low
Budget Christmas Display by
Dec. 25:1000.
Information gathered by staff reporter
Patrick Hambrecht