The kitchen is a wreck....BUT A Christmas Cake///

[norgeway]

My Grandmothers Japanese Fruit Cake..

This is a real time eater, but once a year its worth it.

Cream together

1 cup Crisco

2 cups sugar,

Beat in thoroughly, one at a time, 4 eggs,

Sift together

3 cups sifted all purpose flour

1 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

Stir dry ingredients into wet alternately with

1 cup buttermilk

1 tsp vanilla

Have ready 3 -9 inch pans well greased and floured.."I line with wax paperm then grease and flour..

Into 1 pan put 1/3 of the batter,

Then mix into remaining batter

2/3 cup chopped pecans

2/3 cup chopped raisins

3/4 tsp each..Cinnamon, Allspice and Mace

1/2 tsp cloves

Divide in 2 remaining pans , bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes, turn out on wire racks and cool completely.

 

Filling

In a heavy saucepan,mix together,

2/3 cup sugar

1/4 tsp salt

4 TBSP cornstarch

3/4 cup Pineapple syrup from 20 oz can crushed pineapple.

Cook over low to med heat until boils, boil 1 minute, STIRRING CONSTANTLY..

Remove from heat, Blend in

1 Tbsp butter

2 Tbsp grated orange rind

1/4 cup fresh orange juice

2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice

Cool//

Stir in

1 1/2 cups cocoanut

Drained pineapple from 20 oz can

1/2 cup chopped pecans

Put this between layers, Frost with 7 minute frosting and garnish with cocoanut..

7 min frosting

In double boiler over boiling water, combine

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup white Karo

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 cup cream of tartar

2 egg whites

2 tbsp. water

Beat with portable mixer over heat for 7 minutes or until holds peak, spread on cake.

 

This is a really involved recipe, and my kitchen is wrecked, but once a year its nice to fix something I remember as a child always being on our table at Christmas.

 

 

 

[norgeway]

Oh Yeah....

Put the plain layer in the middle of the 2 dark layers......Forgot that, when you cut it its really pretty...

 

[hydralique]

That kitchen . . .

Reminds me of my grandmother's kitchen when she would bake cakes and pies!

 

[norgeway]

I also made..

Sugar cookies, Lemon Sour Bars,and ginger snaps...Im just about to get the kitchen cleaned up!!!!!The old Frigidaire really got a workout today!

 

[appnut]

It's beautiful Hans.  Looks like Southern Living was there to photo the result to be published in their annual cook book. 

 

[mrb627]

OMG

Slice that baby so we can get a look at her innards!

Malcolm

 

[gansky1]

Lemon bars, fruit cake and ginger snaps. Sounds like a Southern Christmas feast. A messy kitchen is the sign of good food coming out of it, I'm sure you had it tidy and clean before bed

Merrry Christmas to you and Donald!

 

[jetcone]

That looks yummy

 But why is it called Japanese fruit cake , I wonder?

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

I remember that from when we lived in Georgia. The Natives had to have their Japanese Fruit Cake at Christmas. I was never able to find a good explanation for the name, but I wonder if, since it did not have to be soaked in spirits to make it edible like real fruit cake, the Baptists could eat it and call it fruit cake.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

To me, nothing says Christmas like a German Chocolate cake!

 

 

-- Dave

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[gusherb]

Nothing like a completely bombed kitchen for some amazing goodies! I've tried to clean as I go along and it just can't work, whatever I'm making needs all of my attention. That cake looks absolutely delicious.

 

[norgeway]

Re Japanese Fruit Cake

The recipe came off of a Red Band Flour Bag sometime in the 40s or 50s, Grandmother made it for years at Christmas.I still make it from the same recipe,.Where the Japanese part came from ?????

 

[tomturbomatic]

All of that exotic s**t had to make eaters think of foreign lands and by the 40s, Japan was taking over the areas of SE Asia where pineapples and coconuts grew to say nothing of the spices from the orient, even if they were not from Japan. A polite term for Japanese was "orientals" so this was a way to acknowledge the other side of the world with sugar, fat, starch and foreign fruits.

 

[norgeway]

One thing is for sure....

Its a pain to make but it sure is good, and elegant looking on the plate too!

 

[joelippard]

Boy that looks good!  Grandma (Mom's side) used to churn one of these out every few Christmases.

 

[chachp]

I have never heard or seen one of these.

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I should would like to give it a try.  It looks really delicious.  Maybe after the holidays or maybe for New Years.  Too much going on at the moment.</span>

 

[dynaflow]

is that

the new Jr Sunbeam u just got?

 

[LaVidaBoem]

Norgeway>>Super Looking Cake...

Man,

I think we got the cooking on the East Coast down pat!

 

"label off a RedBand flour..." I miss some of recipes off of labels...they rotated often, and gave one a chance to accumulate lots of different items.

 

BTW, that 7 min icing is exactly the same for a Fresh Coconut Cake.

 

Now, how to you get the coconut to stick to the sides?

Do you spread the coconut on the floor and roll the cake sideways like we do here??

 

Merry Christmas, and Eat Well,

Eddy

 

[circlew]

That cake sounds like it would be very tasty!