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- From: jane@ames (Jane Medefesser)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Gumdrop cake
- Date: 7 Feb 86 05:20:16 GMT
- Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View CA
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE GUMDROP-CAKE D "16 Jan 86" 1986
- .RZ "GUMDROP CAKE" "Cake with gumdrops, applesauce, raisins, and coconut"
- .IH "Makes 2 large loaves"
- .IG "4 cups" "flour" "400 g"
- .IG "2" "eggs"
- .IG "1 tsp" "baking soda" "5 ml"
- .IG "1\(12 cups" "applesauce" "400 ml"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "salt" "1 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "vanilla" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "cinnamon" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 lb" "white raisins" "500 g"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "ground cloves" "1 ml"
- .IG "8 oz" "gumdrops" "250 g"
- (no black ones). Two standard bags.
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "nutmeg" "1 ml"
- .IG "12 oz" "coconut" "350 g"
- (shredded). One standard bag.
- .IG "1 cup" "butter" "250 g"
- .IG "" "walnuts,"
- to taste
- .IG "2 cups" "sugar" "400 g"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Cream together butter, sugar and eggs in one bowl.
- In another bowl, mix the
- dry ingredients together (flour, salt, soda and seasonings).
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture half at a time, alternating it
- with the applesauce.
- Pick all the black gumdrops out and eat them or throw them away.
- Add the nuts, raisins, coconut, and remaining gumdrops; blend well.
- .SK 2
- Line 2 large loaf pans or 5 small loaf pans with \fIwax paper\fR! (Grease
- won't work).
- Fill pans about 2/3 full.
- Bake at
- .TE 300 150
- for about 2 hours.
- Let cool for about 15 minutes before you try to remove the
- loaves from the pan. They should just fall right out when turned upside down,
- then peel off the wax paper.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy, though creaming butter and sugar without a food processor is tedious.
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation, 2 hours baking, 15 minutes cooling.
- .I Precision:
- approximate measurement OK.
- .NX
- The smaller gumdrops work best when you go to cut the cake. I can
- never find small gumdrops that are not 'spice drops', so I buy the large
- ones and cut them into quarters. The cake also slices a lot better when
- almost entirely cool. If you try to cut a piece while it's still hot, it'll
- taste GREAT, but it will crumble all over.
- .WR
- Jane Medefesser
- NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
- {..dual,riacs,hplabs,ihnp4}!ames!jane
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