{"id":161,"date":"2015-04-05T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2017-01-09T02:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T02:27:59","slug":"i-want-a-piece-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"“I want a piece of cake.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dad enjoys his food and clearly has since birth. \u00a0Grandmom wrote in his baby book that his first sentence was “I want a piece of cake.” \u00a0My great-grandmother – Ida Gates Hamlin – made the most amazing biscuits. \u00a0I can still remember how they smelled and tasted. \u00a0She also made a great pound cake. \u00a0No matter how I try to top her recipe with one of my own, hers remains everyone’s favorite.<\/p>\n

Here are two of my favorite cake recipes.<\/p>\n

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from the kitchen of Ida Rebecca Gates Hamlin:<\/p>\n

Pound Cake<\/p>\n

Cream together 2 sticks butter, \u00bd cup shortening and 3 cups sugar. Add 1-teaspoon vanilla and 1 teaspoon almond extract. Add 6 medium eggs, beating in one at a time. Sift together 3 times: 3 cups flour, \u00bd teaspoon salt and \u00bd teaspoon baking powder. Stir in 1-cup milk divided into thirds alternating with flour so you end with milk. Bake in a well-greased and floured large tube pan at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Let cake stand in pan for 10 minutes before inverting.<\/p>\n

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from the kitchen of Nellie Russell Clark Wilkerson:<\/p>\n

Carrot Cake<\/p>\n

1 cup Wesson Oil<\/div>\n
1 1\/2 cup sugar<\/div>\n
3 egg yolks<\/div>\n
2 1\/2 tablespoons hot water<\/div>\n
Beat this together.<\/div>\n
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1 1\/2 cups plain flour<\/div>\n
1 teaspoon Baking Powder<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon soda<\/div>\n
1\/4 teaspoon nutmeg<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon cinnamon<\/div>\n
a little salt<\/div>\n
Sift this together and add to first mixture.<\/div>\n
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Next add<\/div>\n
1 cup grated carrot<\/span><\/div>\n
1 cup nuts (optional)<\/div>\n
Whites of 3 eggs. \u00a0Beat and fold in lightly.<\/div>\n
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Bake 350 degrees – 55 minutes<\/div>\n
Grease tube pan – line with wax paper..<\/div>\n
Place on rack to cool.<\/div>\n

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My dad enjoys his food and clearly has since birth. \u00a0Grandmom wrote in his baby book that his first sentence was “I want a piece of cake.” \u00a0My great-grandmother – Ida Gates Hamlin – made the most amazing biscuits. \u00a0I can still remember how they smelled and tasted. \u00a0She also made a great pound cake. … Continue reading “I want a piece of cake.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-family-recipes","category-the-clark-family","category-the-gates-family","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbq-n-grits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}