Catholic Recipe: Pentecost Cake
INGREDIENTS
- 2/3 cups milk scalded
- 1 cups sugar
- 1-1/3 cups flour sifted
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 egg whites
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Frosting
- 15 large strawberries
- 1-1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
- 2 Tablespoons soft butter or margarine
- Sugar to taste
Details
Prep Time: 1 1/2 hours
Difficulty: ★★☆☆
Cost: ★★☆☆
For Ages: 11+
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This is a delicious moist cake, inexpensive and easy to make. It is served with a strawberry frosting.
DIRECTIONS
Scald and allow to cool two-thirds of a cup of milk. Sift sugar, flour and baking powder together three times. Add scalded milk gradually, beating constantly. Add to egg whites cream of tartar, salt, and vanilla, and beat 1 -1/2 to 2 minutes, or until the egg whites refuse to slip when the bowl is tipped.
Fold into floured mixture. Bake in an ungreased seven-inch tube pan in a moderate oven (350° F.) for forty-five minutes or until the cake is golden brown and firm to the touch. Invert the cake on a rack until cool.
Meanwhile, hull and clean 15 large strawberries. Crush 8 with a fork, and sweeten to suit. Make a frosting of 1-1/2 cups of confectionery sugar, 2 tablespoons of soft butter or margarine, and 1-1/2 tablespoons approximately of crushed strawberries in juice. Put the butter and sugar into a bowl, add crushed berries and juice, beating well with a fork. Add only enough to make a mixture of consistency to spread easily. Frost the cake and top with seven whole strawberries as a reminder of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Recipe Source: Family Customs: Easter to Pentecost by Helen McLoughlin, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1956Mon28 AprilSubscribe to Insights...free!News, analysis & spirituality by email twice-weekly from CatholicCulture.org.Free eBook:
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