Rebeccas Pound Cake!

[norgeway]

I decided to do some baking today, This looked good so I made it, First get out your yellow 1956 Kenmore mixer, that the husband suggested I use, because the Sunbeam bowls were in the dishwasher from a earlier project today, then turn the oven of your 1961 GE to 325....then..

 

[norgeway]

First!

Cream well 2 1/2 sticks of butter with 3 cups sugar...For those of you not familiar with American packaging one stick of butter = 1/2 cup.

 

[norgeway]

Then add..

7 eggs, one at a time, beat on high speed until very light and fluffy

 

[norgeway]

sift...

3 cups sifted flour with pinch of salt,..I used cake flour, since it is much finer I used a little more, about 1/2 cup.

 

[norgeway]

My!

Nice modern Sift Chine sifter!

 

[norgeway]

Add

Flour alternately with 1 cup unwhipped whipping cream.

 

[norgeway]

then...

Add 1 Tablespoon Watkins vanilla.

 

[norgeway]

Mix.

Well, but dont overbeat.

 

[norgeway]

Grease and flour..

A large tube pan.

 

[norgeway]

gently...

Push batter into pan.Place in oven, 325 for 1 1/2 hours....Finished pic to follow!

 

[norgeway]

Oh Yeah...

Set Presto timer, it just times 1 hour, so that is a good time to check progress, sometimes it dosent take quite as long.

 

[norgeway]

Here is the recipe...

2 1/2 sticks butter
7 large eggs
3 cups sugar 3 cups sifted flour
1/2 pint heavy cream
pinch salt
vanilla....I use 1 Tbsp.

 

[norgeway]

Well???

That wasnt very clear, but the recipe comes from Eudora Garrisons cook book, she was the food editor for the Charlotte Observer newspaper for many years.

 

[tlee618]

Hans I can only imagine how wonderful that taste!!!  Hope you post a picture of it out of the oven and pan.  Where do you get Watkins products?   I will try this sometime for sure.    Thanks for sharing.    Terry

 

[mixfinder]

Yummy

Kenmore was the top rated stand mixer for several years from the 55 - 58.  They are quiet, extremely powerful and the beaters are impossible to find.  One of my Grandmas had a yellow Kenmore and I have a pink and green one.  I love the way the motor drops RPMs as you change speeds and then picks up again at the new setting.  In a post on the vacuum club you showed a Kenmore and Birtman side by side and the beater collars were at different heights.  They sound the same way when changing speeds so it must be a design that was used in governoring the motor.  The cake sounds so good and anything with 44% butter fat has got to be good.  I get rave reviews from everyone who knows you that the only thing better than your cooking is your generous heart and faithful friendship.  I am fascinated with the depth of your collection and crane my eyes to see the dark corners of every shelf and closet when you post pictures.

 

[kevin313]

Hans- any cake with 2 and a half sticks of butter gets my vote! I don't know what I like better: the cake recipe or that lovely Kenmore mixer!

 

[franksdad]

I don't know of anyone

who loves a good pound cake more than me!  Rebecca's pound cake sounds good too!  I'm gonna make one, probably next weekend, as my wife and I are going out of town to a wedding this weekend.

 

And, BTW, I showed you mine (Miss Lucy's Coconut Cake recipe)... you promised to show me yours (Miss Lucy's Coconut Cake recipe - from the Charlotte Observer).  So I'm still waiting! 

Thanks,

Jim

 

[norgeway]

Finished Product!

Well it came out nice, and it DOES taste good, believe I will use this recipe from now on.

 

[norgeway]

Here it is!

Out of the pan, behind it is a Brown sugar black walnut cake with caramel icing I made for Donalds Dad since it is fathers day.

 

[tlee618]

Oh my Hans, that looks fantastic.  I see a pound cake in my near future!!  Thanks for sharing.

 

Terry

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks, Hans--I gained a pound just reading the thread. Does the minute timer on your range not work?

 

[foraloysius]

Wonderful poundcake Hans! And I love the last picture with the vintage Tupperware! I have a question about the baking pan. What are the three "thingies" for that rise above the rim of the pan? I've seen them before, I even have an American baking pan with it, but never understood the purpose of them.

 

[mattl]

They are there you you can flip an Angle food or Chiffon cake over to cool.  Both need to cool inverted, though I put mine on an old glass coke bottle to cool.  My mother had a very large funnel she used to put here cakes on, inverted of course, but my dad used it in the garage for oil so that was the end of that.

 

[mixfinder]

Funnel in Your Future

I tell myself everytime I bake a cake I am buying a funnel.  My bottle of choice is hot sauce because it has a thin neck.

 

[foraloysius]

I never saw this overhere in Europe. So how does this work? You get the cake out of the baking pan and put the baking pan over the cake?

 

[norgeway]

No..

A angel food cake has no shortening in the recipe, likewise you dont grease the pan, when you take it out of the oven, you simply turn it up on the projections and let it cool, it sticks enough that it will not fall out, this way it does not fall , then when cool, you loosen it with a thin knife and out it comes, this pan is a Wear Ever from the 50s.

 

[foraloysius]

Oh I see! Thanks for explaining. I will have to try that sometime with my Angel Food cake pan.

 

[joelippard]

Hans I have a pan just like that one that was my Grandmother's.  I can't wait to try out the cake in it

 

[bajaespuma]

I love Black Walnuts!!!!!

Could I be piggy and ask for the Brown Sugar Black Walnut Cake recipe?

 

[tomturbomatic]

My mother would hold up the pan with two pot holders while my brother or I positioned three inverted custard cups to hold the cake higher. Coca Cola was not part of her growing up years so she did not use a bottle to hold the cake. That would have been beneath her anyway. Her pan had a removable bottom/tube section. Getting the cake out was like surgery.

Keeping an angel food cake pan free from contamination by grease was a fetish to bakers. A separate dish cloth from the drawer was used to wash it with detergent, never soap, lest a film remain. It was rinsed with scalding hot water to remove any trace of grease that might have contaminated the pan then dried with a clean dish towel fresh out of the drawer.