", "I'll take it," said Olivia..."I can use some..for my applesauce cakes.". Reply Jim Kennington November 26, 2018 at 11:54 pm. Combine brown sugar, chili powder, garlic powder, smoked paprika, salt and pepper in a small bowl. I don't have my grandma's recipe, so I just put together my own recipe from others I had. I made this last night to use up some leftover homemade applesauce. My sister and I loved Agnes's applesauce cake, and our mother, a strict teetotaler, was always horrified. APPALACHIAN STACK CAKE : 4 c. flour 4 tsp. "It's bootleg whiskey is what it is," observed Olivia. In a separate bowl, sift together the dry ingredients. Immediately spread it with 1 heaping cup of the apple filling. Rub mixture over all sides of pork roast. Once brewed in deep-woods still… If desired, place cake, wrapped in a wine-soaked cloth, in an airtight container. This was also a resourceful sugar alternative that was available in the area. This is a tall, lopsided old-fashioned family favorite. I found an old cookbook at a thrift store that had the recipe for applesauce pie, and bought the book for just that recipe. Leave the top layer bare. Thank you, whoever you are! To assemble cake, place a layer of cake on platter, top with 1/2 cup of cooked apples, spread apples over top of cake to edges. Cover the cake with several layers of plastic wrap, then tea towels, or store it in an airtight cake carrier. Just click right on the picture if you need to enlarge it. Life. Add to the creamed mixture alternately with the … Today's guest blogger, Dave Tabler, shares the origins of this popular dessert along with a recipe that will leave your mouth watering and your feet running to the kitchen. Combine the dry ingredients; add to applesauce mixture and mix well. Combine apple butter, Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke, port, and any remaining spice rub together in a medium bowl. Appalachian Stack Cakes require at least five layers, but Sheri says the sky's the limit: "At any height, a stack cake must sit and cure for at least two days. Tammy | It was one of my great grandmother’s special Christmas recipes. Nobody likes fruitcake, but everyone likes applesauce! I actually tried it very little, because I loved her apple sauce pies and chocolate pies. It's from an old-fashioned stack cake recipe that uses sorghum molasses in the batter and it's frosted with a spiced applesauce mixture. Okay, that may be a little dramatic...no it isn't. Some variation of the cake has remained popular with mountain families ever since. url = url.replace( /#/, "" ); I actually tried it very little, because I loved her apple sauce pies and chocolate pies. var url = document.URL; Started gathering the Christmas baking recipes this past weekend, as it’s time to bake mini-loaves that I use as thank-you gifts for the postman, newspaper … vanilla. Leave me a comment and let me know. Today's guest blogger, Dave Tabler, shares the origins of this popular dessert along with a recipe that will leave your mouth watering and your feet running to the kitchen. A labor of love, if you will. Pierce dough several times with a fork. A Vanishing Appalachian Bread … Bake at 275° for 3 hours. Dried fruit is soaked and spiced to make the filling. When the six round layers are done, put together with applesauce or with the following: 1 (8 ounce) package dried apples or peaches. Main The resulting texture is thick and tactile on the palate. Once cake layers have cooled, stack each cake layer with a layer of frosting in between. Cast iron cooking will change your life. Posted by: Bake at 275° for 3 hours. Now I know what that was my Mom cooked on occasion. Sometimes called by other names such as Confederate old-fashioned cake, Kentucky pioneer washday cake, and applesauce cake, it is traditionally made up of layers of pancake thin cake and filled with stewed dried apple filling. Spoon the batter into the prepared loaf pan. hillsboroks on March 15, 2016 . | Happy 2016! An apple stack cake is a traditional Appalachian dessert featuring a thick dried apple filling spread between layers of sorghum-sweetened cake. She cleans up nice! Pour into a 13x9-in. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. One thing led to another and, well, the proof is in the photo: the cake did not return to the pantry unscathed. var e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','https://static.typepad.com/.shared//js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e); The cake layers are baked on top of the round cake pans, not inside. Reply Jim Kennington November 26, 2018 at 11:54 pm. I'm going to be honest. This Apple Stack Cake Recipe is almost like an Applesauce Cake recipe. This is a tall, lopsided old-fashioned family favorite. Repeat three more times or until all the flour and applesauce are in and mixed up. } else { Any type of dried fruit may be used. Instead of getting my layers as thin as I should have, I decided to try to rush the process and only do six thicker layers instead of the 7-8 that I had enough dough to do. Apple sauce is inexpensive and widely consumed in North America and some of Europe.. A wide range of apple varieties is used to make apple sauce, depending on the preference for sweetness or tartness. Methods vary as much as ingredients. Take the time to make the layers as thin as possible. Add the applesauce, sugar and oil; mix well. It is really more of a quickbread, like banana bread, than what I think of as a cake but it is delicious. (They're not the same!) When fall rolls around, most people jump on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. Fill pan 2/3 full with batter. Appalachian Applesauce, Moonshine, and a Custard Pie. Turn the first lukewarm layer onto a large cake plate. One-half hour before cake is done, brush top with corn syrup. "What do you want me to do with it, Mama? Especially since I had to unpackage it and unwrap the boozy cheesecloth in order to snap this photo. Another recipe credited to Mark Sohn can be found at " Eating Appalachia: In Search of Real American Cuisine in Hidden Hollers " by Kathleen Willcox. 1/2 cup shortening..1/2 cup brown sugar..1/2 cup buttermilk..1/3 cup molasses..1 large egg..1 t. Vanilla.....3 1/2 cups flour..1 t. Ginger....1t. Now I like apples year round but I want to make more apple recipes in the fall and winter months. Grease a tube or pound cake pan and sprinkle on just a little flour. Anyway, in the headnotes of the recipe in WINTERSWEET, I mention that I have a photo of my great grandmother (Ethel Price Hunt) getting ready to go on a squirrel hunt, holding a big gun. window.location=permalink+"?pintix=1"; Formerly, sour apples were used to make savory apple sauce. Cool. | It is really more of a quickbread, like banana bread, than what I think of as a cake … In another bowl, with an electric mixer, beat butter, brown sugar, and honey until light and fluffy. Some credit James Harrod, an early pioneer of Kentucky and founder of Harrodsburg, as the one who introduced this recipe to Appalachia. Almost everyone has a cast iron skillet or two and if you don't, why the heck not?! What do you call them in your neck of the woods? I have a loaf ripening in the pantry as we speak, and it’s going to take everything I’ve got not to dip into it before Christmas Eve. Cream butter and sugar. Regardless of how it got to Appalachia, it's origin is probably based on Eastern European tortes. The recipe runs as Appalachian Whiskey Applesauce Cake because of the dessert’s Virginia mountain roots and my tendency to replace the wine with bourbon (my great grandfather was from Kentucky, right over the line, so it still seems culturally appropriate). Sometimes called by other names such as Confederate old-fashioned cake, Kentucky pioneer washday cake, and applesauce cake, it is traditionally made up of layers of pancake thin cake and filled with stewed dried apple filling. To eat a slice is a spiritual moment for me, a strange, hypnotic connection to a past so wholly different from my own. Divide dough into six parts. I could write a whole blog post on dried apples, and probably will at some point, but won't get into that right now. https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-apple-stack-cake-240546 Appalachian Stack Cake I attempted to make an old fashioned applesauce stack cake to take to our family reunion. I guess I could try cast iron cake pans if I had them but I don't. The cake layers are baked on top of the round cake pans, not inside. I recently came across that photo, so here it is along with another of her in flapper attire. 3. We love apple! Plenty of fruit cake being made (not by me) and eaten (possibly by me) over here in the UK :-). } Set aside. Sometimes called by other names such as Confederate old-fashioned cake, Kentucky pioneer washday cake, and applesauce cake, it is traditionally made up of layers of pancake thin cake and filled with stewed dried apple filling. Set aside. Stack-cake connoisseurs advise covering the top of each cake layer with apple butter or applesauce, and then allowing the cake to cure for between two days and a week. "They sent this. I loving hearing from y'all. Love the photos of about to go a squirrel hunting' in the Appalachias. So did my mom's cousin's wife Agnes, who would add a delicate drizzle of brandy to hers. A sturdy thing, it was a simpler version of a fruitcake, and would probably have benefited from some "recipe." The dried apple mixture can soak into thin layers MUCH better than thicker ones which makes it SO MUCH better. There is no cake perhaps no recipe more rooted in Appalachian mountain culture. Why? www.appalachianmtnroots.com/2017/11/appalachian-apple-stack-cake.html This was only the second time I had ever made this cake. Moonshine has an air of anti-hero, outlaw romance to it- like pirates and their rum, moonshiners and their corn whiskey are the stuff of law-bucking adventure tales. The rest of the main ingredients (flour, salt, shortening/lard, eggs, milk/buttermilk, baking powder/soda) were also economical staples that most women had on hand. The cake layers are baked on top of the round cake … … And then it seemed like the photo would come out so much better if I cut a slice. Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl and whisk to combine. It is then refrigerated for at least a day or two to allow for the apple filling to saturate the cake. not being thin enough but it was still delicious! your own Pins on Pinterest