Aunt Nell's My Cake Recipe – Old Cookbook Show – Glen And Friends Cooking

Aunt Nell’s My Cake Recipe – Old Cookbook Show – Glen And Friends Cooking
This recipe comes from a 1951 Church Cookbook published in California – the specific recipe is from my Great Aunt Nell (Helena).
‘My Cake’
Part 1: 1 cup flour, ½ cup butter, 1/3 cup sugar. Mix these ingredients with fingers or pastry blender. Press on bottom of pan.
Part 2: 2 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 3 Tbsp flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch salt, 1 cup walnuts or ½ cup cocoanut, 2 teaspoon vanilla. Spread on top of part 1.
Bake in a 350º oven until brown (about 25 minutes). Allow to cool in pan.

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  1. I had to watch this because I too had an aunt Nell. She was my most favorite person till she passed away from lunc cancer when I was only 8 years old. I was devastated and almost 60 years later I still miss her.

  2. I made it yesterday and i used plain White sugar (didnt had brown sugar) and it got hard, realy hard. Maybe my conversion tablet (cups to Gramm) was not entirely correct. Or the sugar is chemical very different (yours looks a little moist).

  3. This would often show up at Thanksgiving- I love this dessert! And actually, Nell & George moved to California near the end of the 1920's. His brother wrote "if you have to be out of work, you may as well be out of work under an orange tree" so they moved to Southern California, with their two kids, my aunt and my dad. Dad's younger sister was born in CA.

  4. They look just like what my mom called “nut smacks”. She was a ladies auxiliary part of the Legion and took them for for events.She would say don’t eat those they’re for the Legion.🙁

  5. My father was in the RCNavy, and because they were moved around so often, all the military wives would make a special effort to socialize & make friends every place they ended up. My mother would get together with the neighbour ladies every few weeks for tea out of good china cups & saucers and many special squares, cakes & cookies. These butter tart squares were a favorite; also graham icing squares, Nanaimo bars & lemon loaf.

  6. My mother-in-law made that, usually at Christmas, but she called them squares. I became addicted to them. Probably because I am also addicted to butter tarts. Absolute winn er to me!

  7. Hoping to see some comments on ballpark baking time and how it came out for others. I don't bake much so was worried about the "bake until brown" instruction but wanted to try the coconut version (in a 9-inch metal pie pan). After 16 minutes, mine was quite dark brown, had risen slightly, then started to fall around the edges. It wiggled somewhat when I took it out of the oven but seemed to set as it cooled. Seemed to, but didn't. When I tried to cut out a test piece, it was goop. I covered it with foil, and went back in the oven for another 15 minutes. Cooled again, cut out a piece and tried it. Not bad but super sweet, still goopy and the cookie layer wasn't cooked. I'm sure it's user error, but I'll probably discard what's left and not try again.

  8. Watched the video, almost immediately made the 'cake', it's very yummy! Very very sweet so next time I might add a little ginger to the topping. Thank you for the inspiration!

  9. Those community cookbooks are the BEST. The recipes in there are all home-tested. They also reflect how people actually cook (as opposed to how they want others to think they cook).

  10. In New Zealand this is called Dream Cake popular in the mid 20th century but has disappeared from cookbooks of the last 30 years. My Grandmother and Great Grandmother liked it and I've made it before for relatives. Sometimes it is also called American Crunch.

  11. My grandmother made almost exactly the same thing and called them "Yum Yums" (and had even less detail in her recipe):

    Yum Yums Oven 350
    Rub together fine crumbs. Line a pan 8 x 8 with mixture.
    (Tip: Whenever you use glass drop temp by 10 degrees.)
    1 C Flour
    1/2 C Butter
    2 T Sugar
    On top add:
    2 eggs well beaten
    1/2 C coconut
    1 t vanilla
    1 1/2 C Brown Sugar
    1 C Nutmeats
    1/4 t Baking Powder
    2 T Flour
    Bake 350 30-40 min Do not over bake – should be soft.

  12. Glenn, Grandma (your Aunt Nell) used to substitute pecans for the walnuts too! I don't think she ever used walnuts in the recipe. She made individual small "tarts" in small aluminum disposable pans. Usually the crust was formed up the sides of the pan. They were hugely popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hundreds were made be her over the years. Sometimes not at holidays. I have recollections of climbing into her acaia tree with as many as I could liberate and a glass of milk and an old kid's book to spend an afternoon in the summer. The church ladies were mostly neighbors and acquaintances who had lived in the same area since well before WW II.

  13. This reminds me of a cookie variation in the old Betty Crocker cookbook. I saved it as "Coconut Chews" because my family liked the coconut and walnut added to the topping. It had a cookie crust and the oh-so-sweet chewy top, THEN topped with a lemon glaze/icing. Yum. But we cut them into 1 x 2" cookies because that was a lot of sweet.

  14. Question, I've been looking for an affordable relatively good quality for use in my house. Do you have any suggestions or videos on this? Canadian Tire, Home Hardware & Walmart are my locals. That cake looks great! 👍👍

  15. In the Midwest, this would be closer to a bar cookie (biscuit, as you say)… Still, looks yummy.

    Btw, in my youth, the family would order a box of Florida oranges through the school, They would arrive somewhere between US Thanksgiving and Christmas. I remember them being heavy, juicy, and as sweet as candy. Much better than the ones found in supermarkets now. (And no dyes.)

  16. In my family there is a similar thing. Pie dough crust and for the topping we use honey, sugar chopped walnuts and eggs. My mom told me that the original recipe called for corn syrup instead of honey. We are from Argentina.

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