Snow on the Mountain Cake
From: Lani
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 5:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Snow on the mountain cake recipe
My mother will be 84 years old in a few months. She is always talking
about a pastry/cake that she used to buy
from Judice's Bakery that was located on N. Claiborne and Frenchman
Street in New Orleans. I would love to get the recipe for her.
Can anyone help me out?
Thank you very much!
Hello Lani,
I can find only two mentions of Judice's Bakery anywhere at all. One is
merely a street location, and the other is a report that they were
robbed and then that they later became Gambino's Bakery. I suspect that
they have been gone too long for any of their recipes to be found.
Sorry. This site has a recipe for "snow on the mountain cake":
Recipes4Cakes
Phaed
Hi Uncle Phaedrus
I enjoy your site and I am glad I am finally able to contribute.
I have included the recipe for Snow On The Mountain Cake requested in
April 2012.
This recipe is from 1911, when vegetable shortening first came on the
market,
and made a pure white cake that is "light as a snowflake and the
frosting had a crunch like crusted over snow"
Make it a great day!
Barbara
Snow On The Mountain Cake
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk
2 1/2 cup sifted cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 egg whites
Snowy Mountain Frosting (recipe follows)
Preheat oven to 350 F. Cream the shortening in a large bowl. Gradually
add 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, creaming the mixture until light.
Add the vanilla to the milk. Sift together the flour, baking powder and
salt, add alternately with the milk to the shortening mixture, blending
well..
Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form; gradually add the remaining
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar and beat until peaks round over gently.
Fold egg whites into batter.. Pour into two 9" cake pans that are
greased and lined with wax paper that is also greased..
Bake until done 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from oven and let pans sit on
wire rack for 10 minutes, then remove cake from pans to rack to cool.
When thoroughly cool, frost with snowy mountain frosting.
Snowy Mountain Frosting
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup water
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 egg white
1 or 2 drops vanilla extract
In a suace pan combine the sugar, water and corn syrup, mixing well.
Cook until mixture reaches the soft ball stage (240 F).
Remove from heat and let cool. Meanwhile beat the egg white until stiff
but not dry. Pour the cooled syrup over the egg white in a thin steady
stream,
beating constantly; continue beating until the frosting is thick enough
to spread. Mix in 1 to 2 drops vanilla if desired.
--
*Ginny Butterfield
Cranberry Twp, PA
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