Effie’s Pecan Cake Recipe
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Ingredients: Preheat oven to 300º
Ingredients
3 C sugar
1 1/2 t cinnamon
3/4 t cloves, ground
2 C water
1 C apple cider or orange juice (Grandma didn't use alcohol, but you can substitute bourbon, rum, amaretto, or other liqueur)
1 # raisins
1 # dates, chopped
3/4 C butter
4 1/2 C white flour
1 1/2 t baking soda
1 1/2 T baking powder
3/4 t salt
3/4 C chopped pecans (this can be a rather flexible amount)
1/2 C light corn syrup
1 C pecans, halved (or more for decoration)
2 T of the same liquid as above -- cider, OJ, whatever
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Directions:Combine first eight ingredients in a saucepan and bring to low boil while stirring continually. Reduce heat and let simmer 5 minutes. Remove to cool.
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Slowly stir (lukewarm) liquid spice/fruit mixture above into the dry ingredients. Pour into two well-greased loaf pans.
Decorate the tops of the loaves with pecan halves
Bake 1 hour at 300º
Remove from oven briefly, as you gently apply a coat of corn syrup over the cakes with a pastry brush (a few tablespoons of jelly -- or alcohol -- may be added to the corn syrup.) Return cakes to oven and continue baking one hour, or until a toothpick come out of the cakes cleanly. Cool.
If you want a very moist serving, drizzle over the serving a tablespoon or so of whatever flavor liquid you used, apple cider for example. |
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Notes: I recently picked up a book that had my grandmother's writing in it and discovered this recipe tucked into the back. I only recall Grandma making it with apple cider or orange juice and it was always a really yummy cake. I remember delivering these cakes to Mrs. Rogers (Grandma's next door neighbor), Effie (across the street), "the Sisters on the Corner" and the Vaden family around the corner and across the street right by a park (where we loved to play after dark. There were bats that swooped after the mosquitos and lightening bugs all around us, but it was fun, not scary. Katie, my sister mostly played with June Vaden, but also with the oldest of the three girls Donna. My friend was Reeca--pronounced "Reesah." We caught the lightning bugs and broke off the glowing part to stick on ourselves as decorations. I find it rather repulsive now that I am an adult, but we loved it. I don't think the older kids stopped to think about it being bug guts. Reeca and I didn't know better. We were really young, since this happened before I turned 8 when we moved to California) We probably took it to church and other places too. I remember picking up pecans from the grounds of the church, then shelling them at home. I have a vivid memory of sitting in the banquet in the kitchen, picking out nutmeats and getting a bit of the papery divider and learning the meaning of bitter very quickly!
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