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The Complete Prune Cake Recipe

Yesterday’s post recipe link had a very strange symbol when there was a fraction involved in the amount of a few ingredients.

Sorry about that.

Good thing I have several eagle eye readers to alert me. Here’s the the entire recipe.

I’m thinking the baking is 325 degrees and not 300 as recipe says but that cookbook was from 1984.

Bake until done.

(Also I’ve used a stick of butter and 1/2 c of olive oil together when I didn’t have good vegetable oil in the pantry) I omit the nuts as my kids didn’t care for them but they are in the original recipe.

Here I’ve declared n kno this recipe COMPLETE. Yikes, I don’t see the 1 tsp allspice in this recipe I’m posting today. Be sure to include it.

Still best the second day after baking. I see I wrote “Best cake you’ll ever eat.” I would say now, “that’s debatable!”

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: 1984, baking, Beaumont Inn, cake, cookbook, Harrodsburg Kentucky, photography, postaday, prune cake, recipe, stained page 5 Comments

Prune Cake- tastes better than it sounds, Promise

Prune cake recipe is from The Beaumont Inn Harrodsburg, Kentucky. I saw it in a newspaper when we lived in Fort Knox.

I’ve baked this recipe for decades. It’s a moist spice cake. Even better the second day.

Be sure you cook and mash the prunes first!

I shared the Prune Cake recipe and the person said later her cake didn’t taste or look like mine. I asked her about it – she didn’t like cooked prunes so she thought she’d improve the recipe by just cutting them up. The prune mash needs to distributed throughout the batter. Doesn’t work her way!

I omitted the warm sauce this time, cutting the calories of extra butter and sugar but it’s delicious that way. Keeps it extra moist.

Many blog viewers baked a spinach pie and reported great success. Not sure how many will be tempted to bake a prune cake. If you do, please let me know.

Dry ingredients with spices. Cooked prunes (mashed)

And buttermilk is key to success.

February 8, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, Beaumont Inn, buttermilk, cake, eggs, kitchen, Pandemic, photography, postaday, prune cake, spice 19 Comments

Split-Second Cookies Recipe

Here’s the recipe I used to bake Split-Second Cookies. They are like a shortbread filled with jam.

I creamed the butter and sugar by hand.

Added egg and vanilla.

The combined dry ingredients.

I usually fill them with raspberry and apricot Bonne Maman jam. I was fortunate to receive some delicious marmalade and jam from two different friends.

I used Eileen’s Orange Marmalade and Pam’s Blubarb in addition to the raspberry and apricot.

Eileen’s Marmalade and Pam’s Blubarb Jam

Took a plateful to a friend for her birthday

January 31, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, butter, cookies, egg, food, friends, homemade jam, kitchen, photography, postaday, split second cookies, sugar, vanilla 20 Comments

Jan 1. 1977 Three Kings’ Cake and Spring Seeds to Plant

This page is from the January 1, 1977 New York Times Magazine.

My sister sent me the photos of the clipping today as Epiphany or Three Kings Day is January 6th. This day is the traditional day families would take down their Christmas decorations when I was growing up .

One side of the magazine page is Three Kings’ Cake recipe article by Mimi Sheraton. This recipe makes two Loaves of sweet bread with yeast and lemon and orange rind, currants and mixed fruits. Almonds are hidden in the dough to be discovered by one lucky eater .

On the reverse side of the paper is an ad to order seeds for Spring planting. Park Seed is celebrating 150 years of being in the gardening business.

(This is not the same king cake of February’s Mardi Gras.)

Park Seed- 150 years in business in South Carolina

My friend Roberta sent me an email this evening with a video from the University of Pittsburgh French Nationality Room Galette Des Rois (click the name of cake to watch) see how to make another type of Kings’ Cake with Almond paste and puff pastry. The French version.

January 5, 2021 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: 1977, baking, celebration, Epiphany, food, holiday, Mimi Sheraton, Nationality Room, New York Times, Park Seed, postaday, recipe, Spring planting, Three Kings Day, University of Pittsburgh 4 Comments

Border Collie Cookie

Friends dropped off home baked cookies and this specially decorated dog cookie definitely resembled their Border Collie, Beau.

I’d say they nailed it.

I photographed Beau December 2018.
Cookie is this Christmas.

December 28, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Baking, dogs, PhotographyTags: baking, Border Collie, Christmas cookies, cookie, dog cookie, holidays, neighborhood, Pittsburgh PA 8 Comments

Joanne Baked Her Fruitcake Cookies Today

Fruitcake Part 2

Tuesday’s post was Joanne’s Fruitcake recipe and a photo of a few ingredients. i asked people if they were fruitcake fans.

Monday night I’d texted Joanne, asked if she had a photo of her fruitcake cookies I could include in the post. She responded after I went to bed and said if I’d wait a day she bake them.

I woke up this morning, saw her response and here are her photos. Thank you, Joanne.

Joanne’s been baking this recipe since the 80’s

December 22, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, cookies, food, friendship, fruitcake, fruitcake cookies, holiday, holiday baking, kitchen, photography, postaday 10 Comments

Fruitcake Cookies Recipe by Joanne

My friend Joanne would serve these at her Christmas tea along with delicious Cappuccino Flats & Mincemeat Tarts.

FRUITCAKE- yes or no?

December 21, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, Christmas tea, cookies, food, friendship, fruitcake, fruitcake cookies, photography, postaday, recipe 5 Comments

Two Longtime Friends Cook Modern Comfort Food Guest Blog

Watercolor by Joanne -Applesauce Cake with Bourbon Raisins baked by Colleen

Joanne writes from Florida:

So …. one day last month I was on the phone catching up with my friend Colleen who lives in Nova Scotia. As we were talking about her new cookbook purchase, Ina Garten’s “Modern Comfort Food“, my doorbell rang and a package was delivered. I opened it while talking and it was a copy of the same book! What are the odds? My dear friend Ruth had sent it as a surprise. Colleen and I decided we would each pick some recipes to try out and share our results. Here are the photos of our month-long project. Fun and nice way to keep in touch. Overall we both agree that Ina Garten’s recipes are easy to prepare and almost always turn out looking exactly like her descriptions and photos.

We’re looking forward to trying out another cookbook author soon.”

Colleen cooked:

Warm Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Spaghetti Squash with Arrabbiata Sauce

Seared Salmon with Spicy Red Pepper Aioli

Applesauce Cake with Bourbon Raisins

Joanne cooked:

Brussels Sprouts Pizza Carbonara

Fresh Zucchini with Lemon and Mint

Roasted Sausages, Peppers and Onions

Tuscan Baked Apples

Colleen has been featured on the blog with quilts, cookbooks and a mug rug she made me

Joanne has been featured with Tea Bag Art and recently the zucchini as cucumber confused produce sign

November 23, 2020November 24, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Baking, Cooking and Eating, foodTags: baking, Barefoot Contessa, comfort food, cookbook, cooking, eating, friendship, kitchen, Modern Comfort Food, Pandemic Project, photography, postaday, recipes 11 Comments

Pies in NYC November 2015

I found this photo is my archives.

Artisan Apple and Pumpkin Pies at Citarella, when visiting my sister at Thanksgiving, the year Mark’s family came,too.

If you had to choose just one, which would you choose?

November 21, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Baking, food, PhotographyTags: apple pie, Citarella, dessert, family, New York City, photography, pie, pies, postaday, pumpkin pie, thanksgiving 6 Comments

Hungarian Csoroge

Aunt Linda made these Hungarian Csoroge

Can you pronounce it?
here’s a recipe

also known as Angel Wings, traditionally fried in hot lard.

there are similar fried dough recipes from: Poland (chrusciki, kruschicki) Italy (frappe or cioffe -bowtie cookies) Lithuania-(ausuki). Croatia-(Kroštule)

here’s a link to Nut Roll slideshow

Pretty plate from my friend Joanne.

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 by Ruth Categories: BakingTags: Angel wings, ausuki, baking, bow tie cookies, Chrusciki, cioffe, cookies, csoroge, frappe, fried dough cookies, Hungarian, kitchen, kruschicki), photography, Poland, postday 17 Comments

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