Today's Recipe: Back despite lack of demand
In keeping with our as-yet unsuccessful "Reader Participation" campaign, Bloygevalt is bringing back the not-so-popular Today's Recipe feature. We feel that if readers don't care to show they care by contributing their thoughts and observations to a forum specially designated for engaged, informed discourse - thereby creating a dynamic sense of community in which we all prosper - then at least they can get some culinary information that could be useful (assuming they get off their asses and do some work). Now you're finally getting something for nothing, so please don't grace me with your complaints. In this case, you're getting a prized Bruser* family recipe, straight from the old country by way of Saskatchewan.
My Great-Grandma Ann's Orange Cake
1 cup sugar
1 heaping tbsp. butter, softened
1 egg
1 orange, seedless
1/2 C sultanas (those yellow raisins)
1 C sour cream
2 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 350℉.
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg.
Cut orange into small sections (leave peel on) and chop with sultanas in a food processor until a chunky paste is formed.
Add orange mixture to egg and sugar and mix.
Dissolve baking soda in sour cream, add to mixture and stir well.
Sift flour, baking powder, spices together in a medium mixing bowl.
Add dry mix to wet mix in small amounts, stirring well.
Turn batter into a greased loaf or square pan (double the recipe for bundt cake), evening out the top with a spatula.
Bake until cake is firm and knife comes out clean. Cool in pan and turn out onto a plate.
This cake is extra delicious with cream-cheese frosting. (Mix 1 C cream cheese with 2 C powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough milk to form a smooth consistency. Refrigerate until ready to use.)
I made chocolate cream-cheese frosting, and it was extra extra delicious - especially on the cake.
*My maternal grandmother's family, the Brusers are distinguished in many ways - not least in that we're (allegedly) the only family with this terrible name in all of North America. Translated from German slang, Bruser means "person who laughs too loudly." If you meet a Bruser while walking down the street, shoot him (chances are he's related to me).
My Great-Grandma Ann's Orange Cake
1 cup sugar
1 heaping tbsp. butter, softened
1 egg
1 orange, seedless
1/2 C sultanas (those yellow raisins)
1 C sour cream
2 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 350℉.
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg.
Cut orange into small sections (leave peel on) and chop with sultanas in a food processor until a chunky paste is formed.
Add orange mixture to egg and sugar and mix.
Dissolve baking soda in sour cream, add to mixture and stir well.
Sift flour, baking powder, spices together in a medium mixing bowl.
Add dry mix to wet mix in small amounts, stirring well.
Turn batter into a greased loaf or square pan (double the recipe for bundt cake), evening out the top with a spatula.
Bake until cake is firm and knife comes out clean. Cool in pan and turn out onto a plate.
This cake is extra delicious with cream-cheese frosting. (Mix 1 C cream cheese with 2 C powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough milk to form a smooth consistency. Refrigerate until ready to use.)
I made chocolate cream-cheese frosting, and it was extra extra delicious - especially on the cake.
*My maternal grandmother's family, the Brusers are distinguished in many ways - not least in that we're (allegedly) the only family with this terrible name in all of North America. Translated from German slang, Bruser means "person who laughs too loudly." If you meet a Bruser while walking down the street, shoot him (chances are he's related to me).
posted at 2:10 PM
5 Comments:
EGIT - you know 'I don't bake' either. That's the beauty of my great-grandma Ann's cake - it's easy. I made this cake Saturday to use up the orange from the charoset. I didn't even put on an apron. The other nice thing about the cake is that it's not just delicious, it's good for you. I used succanat and low-fat sour cream, which did not lower the delicious factor.
There's still half left, but you'll have to come over and fight me for it.
Like, me, my thumbs are small but surprisingly agile and bendy.
Blue Fuck You
One 32 OZ cup
Fill 3/4 with Blue Kool Aid
Fill half of remaining cup with sour mash whiskey
add one shot gasoline
add two hits blotter lsd
add one dahs of tabasco
why don't we foot wrestle for it instead? (sorry EGIT)
FYI- I have small but agile and bendy toes, too. However, as I'm a total pushover and board-certified softy, I will make a special "Idiot's orange cake" for that certain "stupid" someone who's so eager to get his three remaining paws on a slice. No digits need be sacrificed, and I'm sure you can find a way to make him share, Karma.
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