By Kevin Williams
This wraps up our visit to Yoder's Amish Bakery in Kenton, Ohio, well worth the drive. Â If you missed the other two installments in this series you can see them here:
Part I Â - Maple Frosted Zucchini Bars
Part II - Scenes From Barbara's Kitchen
On the day my family descended upon Barbara's bakery she was making a strawberry angel food cake for a customer from Forest, Ohio. Â She custom-made the cake. Â The old adage that the third time is a charm proved true here as her first attempts at the cake resulted in collapsed cakes. Â But the third attempt is what you see here, a wonderfully spongy, flavorful angel food masterpiece. SIGH, as I was studying her masterpiece I was also trying to run interference with my 4-year-old daughter Aster who kept asking the Amish children there to play or peppering Barbara with questions. Â While the recipe below isn't her recipe per se, it is an Amish one that I have that would create the same cake.
A view from above...this is her angel food cake after it was successfully popped out of the pan and turned upside down...
AMISH STRAWBERRY ANGEL FOOD CAKE
Sift together 3 times:
1 ¼ C. sifted cake flour
2 C. white sugar
Mix:
1 ¾ C. egg whites
1 ½ t. cream of tartar
¼ t. salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups sliced strawberries and then crushed so that you have a juicy, strawberry pulp
Beat egg whites, cream of tartar and salt till stiff. Fold in sugar, stawberries and juice, and flour mixture. Add 2 t. vanilla. Bake at 300° for 1 hour or until done.
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