I'd like to offer, with love and respect for all Family Corner homemaker/readers, my Great-Great-Grandmother's wonder-filled
pound cake recipe. This is a traditional cake in our family;
one person continues as another person 'retires' from the responsibility.
The recipe is excellent for Child-participation, too.
For Christmas, for Easter, for Declaration Day or Halloween, this cake
will fill the bill. Following is her original recipe. Please note:
it doesn't really contain watermelon. Read on! :)
---------------------------------------GRAM'S WATERMELON POUND CAKE
(for Summer Family Reunions and Picnics)
36 generous slices
WHIP -- 6 egg whites
CREAM -- 3 sticks butter
3 cups sugar
6 yolks
SIFT -- 4 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
ALTERNATE --Dry ingredients with 1 1/2 cups milk into creamed mixture.
ADD -- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
FOLD IN -- egg whites
COLOR -- 1/3 dough GREEN
2/3 dough RED, then add 3/4 cup raisins
PREPARE -- greased/floured large round tube pan,
with a folded waxed paper "fence" 2 inches inside.
POUR -- green dough OUTSIDE fence
raisin/red dough INSIDE fence.
remove "fence" and place pan into oven on middle rack.
BAKE -- 325 degrees for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
----- FOLLOWING ARE THE HOLIDAY ALTERNATIVES ----------
NOTE: If you wish to make an EASTER EGG CAKE,
take five 1/2cup portions of dough in separate cups.
Use Egg dye to color each portions. Pour in half the
other dough into the pan; add the colored dough evenly
over the dough, a little yellow on 4 sides, a little blue
next to them, etc. Pour the rest of the dough over the top.
Then use a table knife to cut down into the dough from center
to outside, all around. Then in different places, cut dough
from outside to center. Then one circle to the left, and one
circle to the right. Decorate with thin white frosting and
green dyed coconut nests with jelly bean eggs.
NOTE: To make a CHRISTMAS CAKE, do as above,
but only make 1 cup of green and 1 cup of red.
Alternate the same way. WHITE icing drizzled on top
and down the sides, then decorate with candy ornaments,
sparkles and mini candy canes. (One can also place
a decorated miniature Christmas tree into the center
opening.)
NOTE: For Halloween, do as above, but only make 1 cup
orange and 1 cup black. Alternate the same way.
Drizzled orange icing on top and down the sides and
decorate with black jelly beans and mini jack-'o-lanterns.
NOTE: Fourth of July is, of course, red and blue
dough, alternated the same way. If adults are
watchful, one could put a sparkler on top when
it's served.
Shared with love,
Joan Bramsch, Editor
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