Welcome Friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to Sunday morning
in the old cookbook show today we're
going to do a recipe out of this
cookbook from 1924 called Carolina
cookery from Quaker kitchens published
in High Point North Carolina 1924
Community cookbook Community Church
cookbook lots of very interesting
recipes but it has a recipe that I will
come back to again and again and again
called a dump cake
mostly because I am fascinated by how
many different versions of a dump cake
there are and that you know
um
dump cake
doesn't even always use the same method
across time and location there are a lot
of dump cakes in Canadian cookbooks from
this time period and into the 1960s
where you heat everything in a pot and
you dump everything together in the pot
and mix together in the pot and then put
it in the in the cake pan and cook it
this one you dump everything together
and you mix it and then you put it in
the oven just in a regular mixing jug
and then there's the this sort of
post 1960 version of dump cake which is
a box cake mix that that you put in like
a can of fruit filling for a pie
that dump cake really doesn't show up
until early to mid 1960s I'll pull up
some of the earliest versions of that
from newspaper research that I've done
this one is really plain I mean it comes
down to dump
sort of signifies really quick put it
together get it in the oven you have a
cake there's no flavoring to this one
either so it tells me to put a quarter
cup of melted butter in a measuring cup
put in two eggs and then fill the cup
with milk so
now we put that
into our mixing jug
and then as the name suggests we just
dump everything else in so we dump in
the sugar
baking powder
and the flour and only once everything
is in do we beat thoroughly
and I think what fascinates me about
this is that this recipe is 1924.
um
and the recipe is obviously aimed at
people who you know want to get a cake
on the table really quickly
the box cake mix in 1924 is at least 10
years away the first patent is
is granted in like 1933 and it's unclear
exactly when that company brought it to
Market looks like it was kind of mid
1930s before it came to Market and a lot
of other companies jumped on board but
the War years intervene and box cake
mixes don't really take off until post
World War II
but I guess what I don't understand
how a box cake mix is easier than that
I just don't get it I mean that was
really simple things that most people
would already have in their kitchen
I mean well box cake mixes you have to
put in a couple of eggs anyway don't you
so what's the what's the difference and
I mean yes this one has no flavoring but
of course even though it has no
flavoring
it's the perfect palette I believe that
you could put any flavoring in here that
you want it's so easy
to put in some lemon flavoring or
vanilla of course or something else you
can put in some cocoa and make this into
a chocolate cake really easily now as is
the norm in this time period
there's no baking instructions there's
no pan size instructions
I think my pan is too big just out of
habit I chose a 9x9 because that's what
I always do I'm looking at this thinking
it'll be much better in an 8x8 so I'm
going to go down to the equipment room
and get an eight by eight and we'll get
this moving
okay eight by eight
um you're gonna make mistakes in the
kitchen don't get flustered think it
through and recover it's really easy
don't worry too much about it so I'll
just get this moved over to the smaller
cake pan and we'll get it in the oven
there we go
everything's fine
okay
hurray cake yes hey friends hey Glenn so
this is
a dump kick from
1924 I believe this cookbook was okay
now
it says not all of the recipes are
strictly original but the signature
after each guarantees that they have
improved and found excellent ah so
someone tested it so who is our tester
Mrs DC Maxfield guarantees
that we are going to like this cake
she guarantees if she makes it it works
out it works out there's no guarantee
that when we make it it works out but it
looks like it that's true um
it really always works for the recipe
developer but often it doesn't work for
people trying it at home okay
looks great
there's no flavoring in it
no
it's a pretty good yellow cake it is it
is definitely right so it's something
that you would put strawberries with or
icing that's what I was gonna say I was
going to say I would put some fresh
fruit with this and some whipped cream
and it would be really good yeah
or you could come at it with a little uh
lemon flavoring when you cook it
yeah it could stand some vanilla
but on its own
it's a good cake like it's that it's
that
you could have this in the oven in 15
minutes and 45 minutes after you start
making it it's on the table we've got a
cake to have which is great so you know
Mrs Maxfield you are correct it's a
pretty good recipe
it's actually a really good cake enjoy
this I feel like you doubted it I did
doubt it a little bit I did doubt it a
little bit because it's you know it's so
simple
how's it going to be any good and there
it is Simplicity sometimes is the best
thing thanks for stopping by see you
again soon