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Yellow Cake from Scratch

cut Yellow Cake 7 plate of strawberry shortcake
We picked strawberries and made jam. We can't have strawberries on hand and not have strawberry shortcake. I needed a cake so I pulled out my old recipe from the 1950's. Our neighbor, who would be over 110 years old, if she were living today, baked a lot of cakes for many occasions and this is her.
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May 28, 2020

cut Yellow Cake 7 plate of strawberry shortcakeWe picked strawberries and made jam. We can't have strawberries on hand and not have strawberry shortcake. I needed a cake so I pulled out my old recipe from the 1950's. Our neighbor, who would be over 110 years old, if she were living today, baked a lot of cakes for many occasions and this is her


recipe. I have been using this recipe for almost 60 years. It is just as easy as making a cake with a cake mix.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup Crisco All-Vegetable shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 cups self-rising flour (sift before measuring)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
ingredients
 

Steps:

  1. Using a mixer, beat the eggs.
  2. whipping eggs
     
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  3. Mix Crisco and sugar with the eggs and beat until creamy.
  4. mixing batter
     
  5. Gradually add flour, milk and vanilla, beating together. Mix well.
  6. mixed batter
     
  7. Spray cake pans with cooking spray and pour batter into pans. Gently pound the bottom of the cake pans on the counter to remove the bubbles.
  8. batter in 2 cake pans
     
  9. Bake 375 F until a toothpick comes out clean; about 20-25 minutes.
  10. Place pans on cooling rack until cool. Approximately 10 minutes.
  11. baked Yellow Cake in pans
     
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  12. Using a table knife, go around the edge of the pans and loosen cake from the sides. Place a plate over cake pan and flip upside down. Shake cake a little and it will fall out onto the plate.
  13. Ice it with your favorite icing or enjoy it plain.
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Silver Post Medal for All Time! 418 Posts
May 28, 20200 found this helpful

The sugar is not correct. It's suppose to be 1 plus 1/4 cups of sugar.

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Silver Post Medal for All Time! 267 Posts
May 28, 20200 found this helpful

It's fixed in the original recipe now.

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Anonymous
May 28, 20200 found this helpful

Thank you.

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Gold Post Medal for All Time! 523 Posts
May 31, 20201 found this helpful

Enjoy plain? Yes! We often gathered around the table and enjoyed a layer, still warm from the oven, with a tall glass of chilled milk. We called it 'sweet bread'.

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For a more 'delicate' cake, I sometimes leave out the egg yolks. I whip the whites into a stiff meringue and gently fold them into the batter last. Especially good for coconut layer cakes.

Thanks, LG

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