Receta Cake Show Pound Cake
Cake Show Pound Cake
By Eliot, on June 25th, 2010
As I believe I have mentioned before, it is my mother who first got me started in competitive cooking.
At the age of nine, I found myself old enough to join 4-H, which meant that besides making the obligatory triangular fringed poncho for a sewing project, I could now enter the Cake Show.
Mom always planned early for the Cake and Egg Show which was in November of each year and held at the county fairgrounds. Trying to pull off the perfect cake, get ready for the holidays and corral two adolescent girls in the kitchen created a bit of stress. The prize money was never an issue for mom. (As I recall, we might have won a whole $5 for first place.) I think for my mother, it was a matter of pride that her daughters could cook, and she wanted to show the world (or at least the county) that she had taught us well. I think that is true for us, too. We wanted to make mom proud, screw the blue ribbons.
A few year’s back, mom moved off the family farm and as we were going through thirty years of accumulated “stuff,” I ran across an old tin recipe box. I asked if I could take it. When I got home, I found a treasure trove of old recipes, including the famous “Cake Show Pound Cake.”
- “Cake Show Million Dollar Pound Cake”
- 1 lb. margarine, softened (I now use unsalted butter.)
- 3 c. sugar
- 6 eggs
- 3/4 c. milk
- 4 c. flour
- 1/2 t. vanilla
- 1/2 t. almond extract
Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each. Add flour alternately with milk and flavorings. Beat one minute at high speed. Pour batter into greased and floured angel food pan. (You can also use two loaf pans.) Bake at 300 degrees for 2 hours. Cool in pan and do not invert.
Note: At the bottom of the recipe, this is typed in:
Senior Division includes any 4-H boys and girls who are 13 years of age or older on January 1, 1980.
Junior Division includes any 4-H boys and girls who are 13 years of age on January 1, 1980.
It also lists the time for the “Senior Share-the-Fun Program” (which I recall really not being that fun), as well as the time that poultry, turkeys and ducks could be released from the show.
I wonder if there still is a Cake and Egg Show in the county that I grew up in and if 4-H “boys and girls” still enter “Million Dollar Pound Cake.”