Tag: cake

From "A New Turn in the South" by Hugh Acheson. This has been a staple of mine for years, and I never tire of it. I love the baked pears and the pecans together. Pecans litter the ground around here for about two months from September until November and my kids have always been pretty savvy to find a rock and crack them open.

From "Seasoned in the South" by Bill Smith. Madame Constance was a housemother of a remote youth hostel on the northeastern shore of the St. Lawrence River at Sault-au-Mouton. The recipe calls for cashews but you can use pecans, almonds, pistachios, and hazelnuts.

When Angie Mosier was growing up in Atlanta, a trip Downtown meant a visit to the Rich’s bakeshop and a purchase of their famous coconut cake. Angie loved the pomp of the bakeshop.

This is probably the most “mountain” of cakes. The story goes that James Harrod, one of Kentucky’s early pioneers and the founder of Harrodsburg, brought the stack cake recipe when he came to the frontier state via the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap.

From "Bill Neal’s Southern Cooking" by Bill Neal

From "Savannah Seasons: Food and Stories from Elizabeth on 37th" by Elizabeth Terry

This cake with nuts, fruit, and cream cheese frosting has a mysterious name that no one seems able to trace. But since its appearance in the sixties, it quickly has become a fixture at church suppers and reunions.