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    Home » The Plain Columns » The Amish Cook Column

    Amish Homemade White Cake

    Published: Apr 2, 2012 · Updated: Mar 13, 2020 by Kevin Williams | 7 Comments

     

    HOMEMADE WHITE CAKE

    1 cup water

    1 cup butter or margarine

    2 cups sugar

    pinch of salt

    2 2 /3 cups flour

    2 eggs

    2 teaspoons vanilla

    1 1 /2 teaspoons soda

    2 /3 cup buttermilk

    In a saucepan boil the water and add the butter. Mix the sugar, salt, and flour and add to the hot butter-water mixture and beat. Add the rest of the ingredients and beat. Pour into a greased 15 X 10 inch jelly roll pan. Bake at 325 for 15 to 20 minutes. Add frosting if desired.

     

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    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Magdalena

      April 02, 2012 at 2:38 pm

      Easter eggs are an old Christian tradition. This may be one of the links to what I think is the Amish connection to the Eastern Orthodox. The eggshell represents the empty tomb.

      Reply
    2. Wendy

      April 02, 2012 at 2:55 pm

      Eggs are also a good way to illustrate the trinity.

      I'm wondering about the jelly roll pan called for in the recipe - what I would call a jelly roll pan has 1/2 inch sides. Is this what she uses?

      Reply
      • Kevin

        April 02, 2012 at 2:56 pm

        Wendy, she is using one with 1-inch deep sides.

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    3. suenndy

      April 03, 2012 at 8:14 pm

      The white cake sounds really good. Does it use self rising flour or AP Flour? Thanks Sue

      Reply
      • Kevin

        April 03, 2012 at 8:29 pm

        Lovina would just use all-purpose...

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    4. tracey berthiaume

      April 16, 2012 at 10:29 pm

      Hi Kevin, Please tell Lovina to have Lovina checked for Corneal Dystrophy. I have cogans map-dot corneal dystrophy and one of the syptoms is easily scratching the cornea or getting tears on them from things as simple as an eyelash or the sleep that forms during sleeping. thanks, Tracey

      Reply
      • Kevin

        April 16, 2012 at 10:37 pm

        Tracey, thank you, I will pass that along. Hopefully that is not the case, but good info for her to have! - Kevin

        Reply

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