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 sent in by
a viewer
thank you very much for sending me
cookbooks um
i really enjoy going to post office
getting a box and then rooting through
it
and finding new cookbooks and things
that i've never seen before
and this one is one that i had never
seen before now because it's
in kind of bad shape i'm just
guessing on the dates based on some of
the things that are written in here
so this could be anywhere from i don't
know 1922 to 1924
it's kind of hard to tell as you can see
it's it's fallen apart
regardless it's a great resource it's
put out by
the borden corporation makers of
borden's evaporated milk
and eagle brand condensed milk and it's
a mix of
corporate recipes by borden in order to
advertise their products
and it's a mix of crowd-sourced recipes
um gordon was holding contests in 1923
and 1924
and housewives housewives their words
sent in recipes and the winners got
their recipes published in this book and
they also got a little bit of prize
money
and so today we're going to do one of
the prize winning recipes and it's for
borden apple cinnamon cake and i have to
be very careful with this book
it's falling apart every page has come
apart from its binding
and the pages when the book arrived were
out of order
not a huge problem in this case i look
at this book and i think
it's a well-loved well-used book whoever
had this book over the years
has gone back to it time and time again
and made these recipes
and that's why it's you know in such bad
shape
cookbook sitting on a shelf unused is
useless take them off the shelf use them
make the recipes
so in this bowl i put flour salt
baking powder and sugar
and to that i'm supposed to rub in a
little bit of
butter so you're supposed to rub that in
with your fingers
okay i think i've got the butter rubbed
into the
flour and all of the big bits are gone
it's rubbed in completely
and don't be afraid to use your hands to
mix food at home
you don't need a glove just wash your
hands wash before or wash
after so i've got that all mixed in and
wash my hands and we'll come back to the
next ingredients
okay next up is the evaporated milk
so i'll just open up this can now you're
supposed to mix the evaporated milk
with some water and the eagle eyed among
you will say well why couldn't i just
use
two cups of milk you could definitely
you could
but of course this was a borden cookbook
and they wanted you to use
evaporated milk that was really goofy
wasn't it
best before march 2021
we haven't reached march 2021 yet so
it's fine
but it was really thick wasn't it in
here i'm supposed to also put an
egg i think i'm supposed to put an egg
uh the recipe copy tells me
to beat the egg in but there's no egg in
the ingredient list so i'm hoping that
it's only one
and it's not multiple eggs and i'm just
going to take a whisk
and we'll whisk this all together ah
this isn't babish let's get a proper
whisk
there we go
now before i mix the wet into the dry
and activate the baking powder
i'm actually going to pair and slice
these apples so they're ready to go onto
the cake
and we can get it into the oven pretty
quickly so just pair the apples however
you would
i'm using ambrosia apples today and
they're
pretty nice they're sweet but they stay
super crisp even after they're cooked
and they don't turn yellow very quickly
when you're slicing
and pairing them like this so you don't
have to put lemon juice on them to keep
them looking nice
okay so i'll get these paired and sliced
and so back to
why would you want to use evaporated
milk in a recipe like this when you
could just use fresh milk
in the 1920s not all
fresh milk was pasteurized and in
some locations the fresh milk especially
in cities that were far
from the dairy farms the milk wasn't
always safe
it didn't always arrive as fresh as it
should be and because it wasn't
pasteurized
it didn't last as long and so they
really
push the idea that this evaporated milk
is always safe it's gone through a
process that makes it
safe it can sit in a can on your shelf
you don't need to refrigerate it and for
a lot of people
that was a plus in this time period
kind of like in parts of europe they
have a septically packaged milk in the
little tetra packs
that is shelf stable and doesn't need to
be refrigerated either
so it's the same sort of idea here this
was seen as a health benefit
they were promoting healthiness for
children
so but today i don't think you would
really need to you could just use milk
we've all got refrigerators we know that
the milk is pretty safe that we get from
the grocery store
okay so i've got this mixed together
it's about the consistency of a waffle
batter
rather than a cake batter or a cake
dough
i've got a 9x9 and i've buttered it up
even though it is nonstick
and we'll get our cake batter in there
okay
now i have some coarse sugar in the raw
and some cinnamon and i'm going to mix
those two together
and i've got little pieces of butter
and what we're supposed to do is put the
sliced apples
on top and i'm going to attempt to
arrange them
artfully
okay sprinkle on the sugar and
cinnamon
and then dot it with some
butter now this gets baked in a moderate
oven
for about half an hour
now the recipe says to serve this with a
little bit of whipped cream so while the
cake
is in the oven baking and it looks
amazing
i'm going to make a little bit of
whipped cream i'm going to cheat because
i'm going to use a
siphon or an isi and i'm going to put in
vanilla which i guess
technically changes it to
chantilly i believe chantilly is what
it's actually called so i have some
super fine sugar
and i don't really measure i put in a
little bit
every time it's different i don't really
worry too much about it
put in a little bit of vanilla
and then fill with the appropriate
amount of 35
cream
about that much
put on the lid
and take one of the nitrous cartridges
and i always do two nitrous cartridges
so charge the second time give it a bit
of a shake
and stick it in the fridge until it's
time to taste the cake
hey jules hey glenn hey friends so we
need
forks and uh this gets whipped cream on
top
whoa cause there's nothing better than
cake with whipped cream
i'm ready okay
okay okay so after a brief clean up
there
we did a little bit of clean up let's
see if i met us again
there we go that's a little better still
not full of grace
okay so this is borden's apple cinnamon
cake submitted by
mrs n.j mcbride clarksburg
west virginia
i don't think it's going to be that
sweet there's not much sugar in it
that might be good apples are often
sweet all on their own
it's very moist it's a really nice cake
it is so i think uh i might have added
some actual cinnamon to the to the cake
to the cake but uh
because there's nothing in it there's
nothing in the cake it's so moist
okay that's a good cake that's a good
cake but i think for today's taste like
you said
i don't think it actually needs i think
i would put the apple in it and some
cinnamon in it and i think that's
i'm happy with the sugar level but i
know that more most people would like a
lot more sugar to it
but uh and a little bit of the cinnamon
in the cake that's what you're saying
yeah
yeah to to meet
2021 expectations yes yes but it's a
lovely white cake it is a really nice
cake
nice and really nice cake okay so
i'm just going to keep eating it thanks
for coming out we'll see you again soon
whipped cream in every bite
you