Paulines Date Nut Cake Food

DATE NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Prepare 8 inch cake pan and proceed as usual.
• Mix first three ingredients together and let cool completely.
• Add walnuts, cake flour and baking powder and stir gently.
• Add butter sugar, salt and.
• egg.
• Stir completely and bake in prepared pan until tester comes out clean.
• Topping: Cook until syrupy and spread on warm cake.
• Serve cooled topped.
• with fresh whipped cream, if desired.

GRANDMA PAULINE'S ANNIVERSARY FIESTA CAKE

Steps:

• Sift together flour and 3/4 c.
• sugar.
• Make a well in center.
• Add egg yolks, cold water, lemon juice and vanilla.
• Beat until smooth.
• Set aside.
• With electric mixer whip egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt until foamy.
• Continue beating, adding remaining 3/4 c.
• of sugar a few T.
• at a time, until sugar is incorporated and meringue holds stiff peaks.
• FOLD batter into meringue until JUST blended.
• Pour into ungreased tube pan and cut through batter to break air bubbles.
• Bake at 350* for 50-55 minutes or until top springs back when touched.
• Invert on a wine bottle and hang until cool.
• Remove from pan and serve with whipped cream and strawberries.

MAMMA PAULINE'S TEA CAKES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until creamy.
• Add egg and vanilla, beat well.
• Add flour with soda and cream of tartar.
• Put into a cookie press using the cheese straw disk.
• Press out onto cookie sheet.
• Bake in oven that has been preheated to 350 F.
• Bake for 10 minutes.

DATE NUT LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring dates and water to a boil. Stir in 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup sugar until melted. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Let cool for 10 minutes.
• 2. Place date mixture into a large bowl. Blend in flour, eggs and vanilla. Stir in chopped walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• 3. Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. Serve slices with Warm Sauce.
• 4. To make Warm Sauce: In a saucepan over medium heat, combine 1/4 cup butter with cream and brown sugar. Heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and sugar is dissolved.

DATE NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Mix nuts, dates and cherries in a large bowl.
• Combine flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
• Sprinkle flour mixture over fruit; mix well.
• Add beaten eggs and vanilla.
• Mix throughly.
• Bake in tube pan at 275 degrees fahrenheit for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

AUNT PAULINE'S LEMON SPONGE CAKE

Steps:

• Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored.
• Gradually add sugar then extracts.
• Fold in flour sifted with salt a little at a time.
• Beat egg white until foamy, add cream of tartar and beat until they form moist glossy peaks.
• Gold into egg yolk mixture.
• Bake in ungreased tube pan in 325 degree oven, one hour.

BOURBON DATE NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
• Butter and flour an angel food pan or bundt pan.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Drop in eggs, one at a time, and stir after each addition.
• Sift flour, baking powder and nutmeg together, reserving 1/4 cup flour to dredge the nuts.
• Add the flour mixture, bourbon, almond and vanilla alternately.
• Flour the nuts, dates and coconut; fold into cake batter.
• Pour this mixture into the cake pan.
• Cover the cake with foil for the first few hours of the baking period, removing the foil at your discretion depending on how brown you want it to become.
• Place a pan of water in the oven to prevent cracking.
• Bake the cake for six hours-- Yes! That really is 250 degrees for 6 hours!
• Note: You might want to add more bourbon if 1 cup is not enough as some people really like it soaked.