Recipes And Cooking

This room is to share recipes and tips any kind of chat about recipes and cooking

During the Covid lockdown, I started baking the chocolate and vanilla depression cakes. Neither cake requires an egg and they're absolutely delicious. Incidentally, the chocolate cake recipe is the same as the Wacky Cake recipe - my very first recipe from 7th grade home ec!

Yesterday, I baked the Depression-Era Tomato Soup Cake. This is a delicious spice cake that also is made without an egg. It relies on the acidity from the soup to react with the baking soda. This allows the cake to rise. I was going to attach a picture, but my husband snuck a piece before I could snap a photo. :))

Here's the link. It's quite yummy!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-toma...

I'm eating my sandwiches 1930s-style now. I noticed in a lot of cookbook pictures of the time that pimento-stuffed green olives accompanied cold sandwiches. Then in my Sunday movie yesterday, 1930 Doorway to Hell  with a young James Cagney before he was a star, the gangster character hiding out in a rented room asked the paper boy to get him some groceries. The paper boy brought bananas, bread, meat, and a big jar of pimento-stuffed green olives, showing how the art of the time reflected the importance of the pimento-stuffed olive when having a sandwich.  ;)

If you want to eat in an authentic 1930s manner, don't forget to plop an olive on your plate next to your sandwich. :)

Grandma Donna wrote, I am entering a recipe written by Michelle K that was shared in a discussion in another tread where we talking about was a "Pikelet" the same as what would be known as a pancake in the United States. 

Michelle K wrote

 A pikelet is kind of like a pancake but smaller. You pick it up to eat it with one hand, and you wait until they cool off to eat them. They are delicious with jam and cream, butter and jam, lemon and sugar and I also like them with Vegemite but that is an Australian thing. :)

I'll give you the recipe so you can see if they are similar to a pancake.

- 1 cup self raising flour

- 1/2 - 3/4 cup of milk

- 1 egg

- 1 tablespoon of sugar

- a pinch of salt

- 1 teaspoon of melted butter

To give you an idea of the size, I would cook four at a time in a greased cast iron frypan, so a tablespoon or two of batter per pikelet.

Grandma Donna wrote, After reading the recipe and the size of the Pikelet this seems to be very similar to what we would know as the "Silver Dollar Pancake"  here in the United States.  I hope you all enjoy.