REC: Black Walnut Cake
 

BLACK WALNUT CAKE

Recipe from: "Hillbilly Cookin", Ferrell Tate, Clinch Mountain Lookout,
Thorn Hill Tennessee 1968

Translated into standard English by Charlie

2/3 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1.5 cups black walnut meats
1/4 cup raisins
3 cups cake flour
1/4 tsp. salt
pinch nutmeg
3 tsp. baking powder
1 cup milk
grated rind of 1 orange
1.4 tsp. lemon extract
1/4 tsp. orange extract

Cream the shortening, then slowly beat in the sugar. Add the unbeaten eggs
one at a time. Put walnuts and raisins through food chopper. Sift the flour
with the salt, nutmeg, and baking powder and stir in the walnuts and
raisins. Add to the egg mixture along with the milk. Stir in orange rind and
flavorings. Pour into oiled, square pan about 8-inches wide. Bake slowly at
350F for 50 minutes. Cover with walnut cream icing.


WALNUT CREAM ICING


1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
pinch of salt
2 tbs. heated cream
1/2 cup chopped walnuts coarse

Stir butter until creamy and gradually work in 1 cup of the confectioners'
sugar, vanilla and salt. Then add hot cream and beat in the second cup of
confectioners' sugar. Stir in nuts and beat until creamy.

Charles Gifford wrote:
>
> BLACK WALNUT CAKE
>
> Recipe from: "Hillbilly Cookin", Ferrell Tate, Clinch Mountain Lookout,
> Thorn Hill Tennessee 1968

Thankyew, thankyew, thankyew.
blacksalt
>
> Translated into standard English by Charlie
>
> 2/3 cup shortening
> 2 cups sugar
> 4 eggs
> 1.5 cups black walnut meats
> 1/4 cup raisins
> 3 cups cake flour
> 1/4 tsp. salt
> pinch nutmeg
> 3 tsp. baking powder
> 1 cup milk
> grated rind of 1 orange
> 1.4 tsp. lemon extract
> 1/4 tsp. orange extract
>
> Cream the shortening, then slowly beat in the sugar. Add the unbeaten eggs
> one at a time. Put walnuts and raisins through food chopper. Sift the flour
> with the salt, nutmeg, and baking powder and stir in the walnuts and
> raisins. Add to the egg mixture along with the milk. Stir in orange rind and
> flavorings. Pour into oiled, square pan about 8-inches wide. Bake slowly at
> 350F for 50 minutes. Cover with walnut cream icing.
>
> WALNUT CREAM ICING
>
> 1/4 cup butter or margarine
> 2 cups confectioners' sugar
> 1 tsp. vanilla
> pinch of salt
> 2 tbs. heated cream
> 1/2 cup chopped walnuts coarse
>
> Stir butter until creamy and gradually work in 1 cup of the confectioners'
> sugar, vanilla and salt. Then add hot cream and beat in the second cup of
> confectioners' sugar. Stir in nuts and beat until creamy.

"kalanamak" > wrote in message
...
> Charles Gifford wrote:
> >
> > BLACK WALNUT CAKE
> >
> > Recipe from: "Hillbilly Cookin", Ferrell Tate, Clinch Mountain Lookout,
> > Thorn Hill Tennessee 1968
>
> Thankyew, thankyew, thankyew.
> blacksalt

You are welcome my friend. It's purty good cake!

Charlie

As a Californian transplanted from Missouri, I had long searched for a source
to buy Black Walnuts. I found them here, and this company is very reliable.
The nuts are fresh and delicious, and in a sizeable package.
www.blackwalnuts.com
If you aren't from the mid-west, you may not know about black walnuts. They
are very aromatic and tasty--much different from the English Walnut . Even if
you "are" from the mid-west, you know how difficult it is to shell and pick the
black walnut--it takes hours. I recommend this site for the Hammons Black
Walnuts.
Just a happy customer.
Nancree