This cake recipe cracks me up, I cannot imagine preparing this very labor intensive recipe and my imagination runs wild with the outcome as I read the preparation. It however, must have been a favorite as it was copied twice.Snow on the Mountain
Cake
1 cup dates
1 cup nuts, cut fine
1/2 cup flour
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 teas. baking powder
1/4 teas. salt
2 teas. vanilla
Put wax paper in cake pans. Beat eggs, add sugar & sifted dry ingredients. Stir in vanilla, dates and nuts, spread in two oiled 8" cake pans and bake 30 minutes at 350. Cool
Mountain
5 oranges
3 bananas
scant 1/4 cup sugar
1 pt. whipping cream
1/2 cup shredded coconut
maraschino Cherries
Peel oranges and cut into bite sized chunks, slice bananas and add sugar (you want enough sugar to make a little juice, but not enough to make cloyingly sweet.)
Rip the cake into bite size pieces, make a round of cake pieces about 12" in diameter in the center of your prettiest big plate, hump the pieces up a bit in the center, (because this mountain is a dome.)
Add a layer of fruit and juice, another of cake chunks, until both are used. Begin and end with cake chunks, two layers of fruit and 3 of cake. You can punch and poke ingredients all you want to in forming the mountain.
Frost the whole thing with slightly sweetened whipped cream, use plenty. Sprinkle with coconut, dot with cherries.
Leave in refrigerator several hours and serve with a spoon. Serves 16
Cake
1 cup dates
1 cup nuts, cut fine
1/2 cup flour
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 teas. baking powder
1/4 teas. salt
2 teas. vanilla
Put wax paper in cake pans. Beat eggs, add sugar & sifted dry ingredients. Stir in vanilla, dates and nuts, spread in two oiled 8" cake pans and bake 30 minutes at 350. Cool
Mountain
5 oranges
3 bananas
scant 1/4 cup sugar
1 pt. whipping cream
1/2 cup shredded coconut
maraschino Cherries
Peel oranges and cut into bite sized chunks, slice bananas and add sugar (you want enough sugar to make a little juice, but not enough to make cloyingly sweet.)
Rip the cake into bite size pieces, make a round of cake pieces about 12" in diameter in the center of your prettiest big plate, hump the pieces up a bit in the center, (because this mountain is a dome.)
Add a layer of fruit and juice, another of cake chunks, until both are used. Begin and end with cake chunks, two layers of fruit and 3 of cake. You can punch and poke ingredients all you want to in forming the mountain.
Frost the whole thing with slightly sweetened whipped cream, use plenty. Sprinkle with coconut, dot with cherries.
Leave in refrigerator several hours and serve with a spoon. Serves 16
Hi,
ReplyDeleteDo we have the same Grandma? I have a lot of recipes that look just like this! They're extra special. You have a really neat blog!
Diane Quam
Diane'sVintageCharms
Thanks Diane, I think it must have been the "hobby of the day" and in my Grandmothers case, "Well the bank deposit slips are free and handy..." LOL!
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