That clabbered milk cake recipe sounds really yummy -- you'll post it to the Recipes list, won't you? But the oldest cake I know is pound cake. I have a recipe from England in the seventeenth century, and it wasn't new then -- it's pound cake with currants and lemon peel. Very simple ingredients, and I know it has been made in America as long as there have been Episcopalians here, which means seventeenth century in Virginia, anyway. Second "very old" idea: You've noticed that cakes are faddish items -- as in the German chocolate cake rage, or the Red Velvet Cake, or the Dump Cakes. Apparently the idea of swirling two flavored batters together before baking was a very hot idea in 1900. My grandmother had one as her wedding cake. The swirled batter looked like marble panels in a bank, hence the name "marble cake." It was the "in" cake -- and it was delicious fifty years later -- a fresh baking, of course! So when did the Wells story occur? It's too long since we were hunting for that family in the records! Kathy

That sounds like I need that one -- did ya' give it to me? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Lynch" <kslynch62@hotmail.com> To: "Montgomery County" <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] HELP HELP HELP > > That clabbered milk cake recipe sounds really yummy -- you'll post it to > the Recipes list, won't you? > But the oldest cake I know is pound cake. I have a recipe from England in > the seventeenth century, and it wasn't new then -- it's pound cake with > currants and lemon peel. Very simple ingredients, and I know it has been > made in America as long as there have been Episcopalians here, which means > seventeenth century in Virginia, anyway. Second "very old" idea: You've > noticed that cakes are faddish items -- as in the German chocolate cake > rage, or the Red Velvet Cake, or the Dump Cakes. Apparently the idea of > swirling two flavored batters together before baking was a very hot idea > in 1900. My grandmother had one as her wedding cake. The swirled batter > looked like marble panels in a bank, hence the name "marble cake." It was > the "in" cake -- and it was delicious fifty years later -- a fresh baking, > of course! So when did the Wells story occur? It's too long since we were > hunting for that family in the records! > > Kathy > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message