Nectar cake recipe full of spices & everything nice

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?

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Brrr! ... It's cold even here in California. This Nectar Cake is full of nice spices, raisins and nuts, just perfect for a cold day, so turn on your ovens and bake a delicious cake. It will warm up your kitchen while you watch the last days of the Winter Olympics, too.

Happy Thursday!


Nectar Cake
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg, well beaten
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 1/2 cups raisins
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 2/3 cups flour
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup hot water

Combine raisins and hot water. Boil 10 minutes, remove from fire, drain and cool. Save 3/4 cup of water in which raisins were cooked. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg. Sift flour, measure, and sift with baking soda, spices, and salt. Add raisins, raisin water, vanilla, and nuts. Beat thoroughly. Pour into well-oiled layer cake pans. Bake in moderate oven (375 F.) about 30 minutes. Ice with powdered sugar icing. Ann Bastias, Grass Valley, Cal.


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3 Bean Chili

Baked Salmon w/Macaroni

Potato Soup

Vintage Puddings

Grampy Apple Custards (Broken Link)

Chocolate Custard

Roast Chicken w/Lemon Herb Sauce

Nectar Cake

Chocolate Chiffon Pie Recipe

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?

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We have a 2-for-1 vintage post today. I was looking for an appropriate illustration for my vintage Household Searchlight recipe of Chocolate Chiffon Pie, when I came across this Flickr photo with a recipe . It's fun, and can be educational too, to compare the ingredients and method for an identical recipe.
Happy Thursday!


Chocolate Chiffon Pie
1 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup water
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
4 teaspoons gelatin
3 tablespoons cold water
2 squares chocolate
1/2 teaspoon salt


Combine milk, water, chocolate, and nutmeg. Combine well-beaten egg yolks, sugar, and salt. Add chocolate mixture. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth. Soften gelatin in cold water. Add to hot ingredients. Stir until dissolved. Add vanilla. Cool. Beat until light and fluffy. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into baked pastry shell. Chill. Serve with whipped cream. 6 servings. Mrs. Walter Dean, Ontario, Cal.

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Macaroon Bavarian

5 win Corked by Kathryn Borel

Congratulations to the 5 winners of

Corked
by Kathryn Borel

1. Carla of California
2. Caroline at Attractive Home Design for Less
3. Astrid at I Have Two Feet and Ten Toes
4. Joanne at Eats Well With Others
5. Tallanya @bolonny

Be sure to e-mail me your addresses so that Hachette Book Group can send you your copy of Corked. You're going to love it! :-)

More Joy of Desserts posts about Corked:

• Alsace, Burgundy, Cotes du Rhone, Languedoc -- Featured in Corked
• Corked: a memoir by Kathryn Borel

Title: Corked
Author: Kathryn Borel
Publisher: Hachette Book Group/Grand Central Publishing
Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Format: Hardcover Book
Publish Date: Feb. 16, 2010
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 9780446409506
Pages: 272
Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

Alsace, Burgundy, Cotes du Rhone, Languedoc -- Featured in Corked; Enter this GIVEAWAY

Wine country in Alsace, France (Flickr/valdaqua)
I haven't posted about France or French desserts in a while, but I know that many of my regular readers love it when I do, and so do the search engine visitors, so this post is for all of you. I want to make sure you don't miss out on my giveaway, because it's a book about traveling in France and discovering its wine country (dessert wines! or wines for your desserts!) -- and the universal topic of discovering ourselves.

This is the link for you to enter:

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GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!
D'ont miss this giveaway!
A father, a daughter,
and a wine trip to end all wine trips!
CORKED: a memoir
by Kathryn Borel
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Memoirs and biographies are some of my favorite genres to read. I love non-fiction because I'm always trying to learn something new. This one will allow us to visit France, or travel vicariously if you will. Whether, like the author of the book, wines have eluded you all these years, or you are an expert like her father, the publisher promises this to be the "wine trip to end all wine trips."

Wine festival in Dijon, France (Flickr/lyonphotography)

So whether you like France or would like to discover France; you like wine or would like to discover wine; you like memoirs or non-fiction and would like the chance to get a free book during this economic crisis, be sure to enter the giveaway.

"After an accident and a death, Kathryn realizes that by shutting herself off to her father's relentless wine-stained orations, she has shut herself off from an integral part of him. And so, she proposes a father-daughter road trip. "Corked" is her no-holds-barred account of their tour through Alsace, Burgundy, Cotes du Rhone, and the Languedoc."

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GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!
D'ont miss this giveaway!
A father, a daughter,
and a wine trip to end all wine trips!
CORKED: a memoir
by Kathryn Borel
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Title: Corked
Author: Kathryn Borel
Publisher: Hachette Book Group/Grand Central Publishing
Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Format: Hardcover Book
Publish Date: Feb. 16, 2010
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 9780446409506
Pages: 272
Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

Macaroon Bavarian recipe with maraschino cherries

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?

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Another vintage recipe idea for St. Valentine's Day. Its red maraschino cherries make it tasty and festive when love is in the air. You might have noticed that many brands are now preparing their maraschino cherries in corn syrup, so if like me, you prefer real sugar, be sure to read the ingredients before purchasing. You might have to find an organic brand, or even go to a health food store.

Happy Thursday!

Bavarian is made by folding stiffly whipped cream into whipped granulated gelatin which has been sweetened or flavored, or into sweetened flavored powdered gelatin.

Macaroon Bavarian
2 cups milk, scalded
1 package sweetened cherry flavored gelatin
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup whipping cream
1 cup crushed macaroons
1/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries

Dissolve gelatin in milk. Add cherries, salt, and macaroons. Mix thoroughly. Cool until partially set. Fold in stiffly whipped cream. Pour into mold. Chill until firm. 8 servings. Mrs. F. E. Haley, Cleburne, Tex.

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GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!
D'ont miss this giveaway!
A father, a daughter,
and a wine trip to end all wine trips!
CORKED: a memoir
by Kathryn Borel
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Carrot Marmalade

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Grampy (Broken Link)

New twist for vintage cream puff recipe has heart

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?

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I'm trying out a brand new link system which incorporates thumbnail photos in addition to your links. If it works well, I think it will be a great new way to promote your vintage recipes. Let me know what you think. I always appreciate your opinions.


Cream puffs are easy to prepare, but make for a beautiful presentation. In the version pictured at right, instead of small round balls, the puff pastry is piped into 4 heart shapes and stacked with cream filling. It's especially nice to serve your loved ones or your special sweetie on St. Valentine's Day.

Happy Thursday!



Cream Puffs
4 eggs
1 cup boiling water
1 cup flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon salt

Combine butter, salt, and water. Heat to boiling. Sift flour and measure. Add to boiling mixture. Beat vigorously until mixture leaves sides of saucepan and does not cling to spoon. Remove from fire. Cool slightly. Add unbeaten eggs, one at a time. Beat thoroughly after the addition of each egg until the mixture is smooth. Drop by tablespoonfuls into well-oiled muffin tins or onto a well-oiled baking sheet, 2 inches apart.* If the baking sheet is used, shape mixture into rounds and pile slightly in the center. Bake in hot oven (400 F.) 30 minutes. Lower heat to 350 F. Continue baking 10 minutes, or until firm and dry. Remove from oven. Cool. Cut a slit in the side of each with a sharp knife. Using a spoon or pastry tube, insert cream filling, sweetened whipped cream, or fruit. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. 6 servings.

*Joy's note: or pipe in heart shapes as pictured above right.

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GIVEAWAY! GIVEAWAY!
D'ont miss this giveaway!
A father, a daughter,
and a wine trip to end all wine trips!
CORKED: a memoir
by Kathryn Borel
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