Devil’s food cake is a moist, rich chocolate layer cake. Because of differing recipes and changing ingredient availability over the 20th century, it is difficult to precisely qualify what distinguishes devil’s food from the more standard chocolate cake. However, it traditionally has more chocolate than a regular chocolate cake, making it darker in color and with a heavier […]
Church (and other religious organizations) Cook Books & Recipes
SLOVAK MEDOVNICKY (Spiced Honey Cake/ Cookie) RECIPE
Slovak Medovnkicky recipe from the cookbook celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Holy Name Slovak National Catholic Cathedral, Passaic, NJ
South Buffalo Cake (who knew that there was a cake specific to South Buffalo?)
Today in things I had not heard of until today- the South Buffalo Cake. Who knew that there was a cake named after a neighborhood here in the 716. I don’t know what makes this particular cake so special to South Buffalo (to play along with stereotypes there is nothing Irish about it). I was […]
Baker Family Lemon Bars
It’s the infamous Lemon Bars & Lemon squares! As seen in who knows how many community cookbooks over the years. This variation came from The Wanderers: Assumption Church Folk Group 1984. No discussion or posting of a recipe variation can happen without a callout to Just Hood who originally posted on reddit.
Creamed Cabbage Soup with Kolbasz (Kaposzta Leves Fustolt Kobassza)
I was tempted to write a long story about how when my great-great-grandmother was a girl she smuggled this Creamed Cabbage Soup with Kolbasz (Kaposzta Leves Fustolt Kobassza) recipe out of Hungary by sewing a copy of this in the hem of her skirt. That didn’t happen. For one thing, my grandmothers were variations of […]