Breakfast Light Waffles & Velvet Cakes

light waffles
(from The Kentucky Housewife by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

3 eggs​

1 quart of milk​

flour​

salt​

yeast​

melted butter​

Instructions:

Make a thick batter of three eggs, a quart of milk, and flour, adding a little salt, and two large spoonfuls of good yeast. Set it in a warm place till it gets very light, then stir in a spoonful of flour, and three of melted butter. Heat your waffle irons of a brisk heat, butter them well to prevent the waffles sticking to them, put in batter according to the size of your irons, not filling them quite full, as the waffle will expand a little while baking, close the irons, and bake them till a light brown on both sides, then take them from the irons, sprinkle them with powdered sugar and cinnamon, and send them to table warm.​

velvet cakes
(from The Kentucky Housewife by Lettice Bryan, 1839)

Ingredients:

batter from "Light Waffles"​

melted butter​

milk​

Instructions:

Make a batter as for the light waffles, and when it is quite light, stir in four table spoonfuls of melted butter, and if not sufficiently thin, add a few spoonfuls of milk. Heat your griddle of a brisk heat, clean and grease it well with fresh lard or butter, and place it level, over a bed of clear coals. Put on a large ladleful of the batter, which should be sufficiently thin to run immediately over the griddle; make it smooth, having it as large as a common desert plate, and as soon as it is of a very light brown on the under side, turn it over carefully, lest you break it when both sides are a light brown; lay it smoothly on a plate, and put on a spoonful of melted butter. Grease your griddle again, and bake all your batter in the same manner. As soon as you get three or four baked, stack them, putting a spoonful of melted butter between each; cut them across, dividing each into six, lay a few small bits of hard butter on the top, and send them to table as warm as possible. As fast as you get three or four warm ones, butter them, stack them, cut them across, and send them to table, that they may be handed round to the company while warm.​

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[donna]

My Mother-in-law made delicious Chocolate Velvet cake.

 

[diane]

That sounds very good! I saw a recipe a while back for apple stack cake - seemed similar except for the addition of apples. Sure keep you busy supplying the waffles!

 

[donna]

With tomorrow being Valentine's Day thought add this Red Velvet Cake recipe. This is from "Cookbook South Elkhorn Christian Church". I have posted about this cookbook before.

Red Velvet Cake

1 cup Crisco
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup red coloring
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
2 1/4 cup flour, sifted three times
4 tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream Crisco and sugar; add eggs and beat one minute. Mix cocoa and coloring to a paste, add salt, blend with other mixture. Put vanilla in buttermilk and add alternately with flour to mixture, ending with flour. Put vinegar with soda in cup and mix. Add, do not mix or beat, just blend. Turn into two 9 inch pans. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Frosting:

1 cup butter
1 cup sifted confectioner sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup milk
7 tablespoons flour

Cook flour and milk until thick. Cool and refrigerate. Mix butter, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Add cooled flour-milk mixture and beat. Ice cake.

 

[MRB1863]

...and they sure are red! Wonder why nobody has made Blue Velvet Cake. There's an old song for that one.

 

[donna]

I saw mention of Red Velvet Cake and had to bump this thread. We have always enjoyed this cake and especially made according to the South Elkhorn Church recipe.

Know some like this type of cake and some don't. For you who do like it, try this recipe. South Elkhorn Church was my Granny's Church. Each year they had huge picnic with many cakes to sample or to buy the whole cake. The Red Velvet Cake was one of the most popular.

 

[Rebel_Giratina]

My little brother is totally obsessed with red velvet cake. Thanks for sharing.

 

[jackt62]

I love red velvet cake, but to be honest, I can't recall it being well known and available (at least in the NY metro area) until a few years ago when all the bakeries started to make it.

 

[donna]

I just received my "Southern Living" magazine. It is a special 50th anniversary edition. "Southern Living" has been around for 50 years. which is hard to believe. As they say "time flies".

In the edition they list some of their favorite cakes, of which "The Red Velvet Cake" is one of them. So thought bring this recipe back up which was from my Granny's Church's cookbook.

"Southern Living" states: "Velvet Cakes were popular in Victorian times when savvy cooks blended flour and cornstarch to create fine crumbled cake layers with a velvety texture. The Red Devil's Food Cake, was the result of baking soda interacting with natural cocoa and other acids in the batter. Legrand has it that the chefs at the Waldorf Astoria dreamed up a "hybrid Red Velvet" cake during the 1930s and served a slice to the owner of the Texas based Adams Extract Company while he was a guest of the hotel. By the 1940s Mr. Adams was marketing red food coloring to the masses with recipe cards for a Red Velvet Cake his wife Betty developed."

By the 1989, the red velvet cake took off, when the movie "Steel Magnolias" had a red velvet cake in the shape of an armadillo.
The craze for this cake has continued. It has been helped by "Southern Living" featuring Red Velvet Cake" on three of its Christmas covers."

From "Southern Living" 50th Edition, February, 2016.

 

[donna]

Tomorrow, March 23 is my husband's birthday. Red Velvet Cake is his favorite. Thought re post this thread.

 

[nitrofd]

We wish you hubbie a very happy birthday and many more t come.

 

[nitrofd]

...and they sure are red! Wonder why nobody has made Blue Velvet Cake. There's an old song for that one.

Lately there are two commercial mixes that 've seen for making a Blue Velvet cake,but in the past blue has not been the most appetizing color for food products.in recent ears it's approval has indeed improved mainly from all those different types of drinks.

 

[donna]

Since there was mention of ermine frosting thought bring this thread back up with red velvet cake recipe and the boiled milk frosting (ermine).

We enjoy red velvet cake but it is very rich.

 

[donna]

A delicious and pretty cake to serve for Valentine's Day, Feb. 14.

 

[donna]

Today is our oldest granddaughter's birthday. She is 17 today. Red Velvet cake is her favorite. So thought bump this thread with a recipe for velvet cake.

 

[donna]

Our granddaughter turned 20 yesterday. She had red velvet cake, her favorite. Just thought bump again with this recipe for those who would like to make it.

 

[Story]

"Light Waffles" sounds like some sort of antebellum mounted militia unit.