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Twenty-three chefs who cooked for world royalty and heads of
state (The Club des Chefs des Chefs) were, during their 1987
visit to the U.S., wined and dined with the best our finest
chefs had to offer. What impressed them most? Lunch at an Amish
farm in Pennsylvania, where they ate homegrown new potatoes,
string beans with cream sauce and corn, charcoal-grilled
chicken, and baked ham, washed down with homemade root beer and
peppermint tea, served by the family in a barn lined with
handmade quilts.
They were stunned. Happily so, it seems. The chef for the
president of France said, Cooking has evolved so much. Nobody
presents the true product as it is, and all of a sudden we were
presented that.
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But the desserts impressed them most. Especially one they
couldnt name. One they described as a light pain depices
(spice cake) with a layer of chocolate filling. Gilles Brunner,
chef to Prince Rainier of Monaco, was so taken with the cake,
which he described as a chocolate gingerbread, that he tried to
get the recipe. His request was refused.
The Amish family did not want their identity revealed, which
refusal greatly hampered efforts to identify the cake as well.
Research by Phyllis Richman, then food editor of the Washington
Post, seemed to show that the mystery dessert was Amish
applesauce cake with chocolate frosting, and the Post printed a
version of it contributed by Betty Groff, a cookbook author from
the Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Which applesauce cake turned out to be pretty much what our
family had been enjoying since my father married Edith Kennedy
in 1977, and which Ediths family had been enjoying long before
that. Her daughter, Lorenelle Doll, who gave me the recipe, says
that it was a favorite of my father and Lorenelles husband
Arnie. (So far as I know, Edith didnt actually feed any to a
French chef.)
I like to think Ediths version is better than Betty Groffs,
because that recipe says to frost with vanilla or chocolate
frosting if desired. Whereas Ediths gives a recipe for
chocolate frosting MADE WITH BUTTER. And in my view the humblest
frosting made with butter is better than the fanciest frosting
made without. Im not implying that Ediths frosting is humble.
It isnt. Its purely wonderful, as is her cake.
Edith Kennedy Glidewell went to be with her Lord in March 2002,
but before that she gladdened many hearts in many ways, this
applesauce cake not the least of them.
EDITHS APPLESAUCE CAKE
Cream together 1/2 cup room temperature butter or shortening and
1 cup sugar. Add 1 egg and beat together. Mix in 1-1/2 cups
applesauce.
Sift together 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. soda, 1
tsp. salt, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1/2 tsp. allspice, 1/2 tsp. nutmeg,
and 1/4 tsp. cloves. Add to applesauce mixture, along with 1 cup
raisins and 3/4 cup chopped walnuts.
Lightly oil a 9" x 12" pan and dust with flour. Add the cake
mixture and bake at 350 degrees 50 to 60 minutes, until the top
of the cakes center springs back when touched. Frost with
chocolate frosting when cool.
Chocolate Frosting: Combine in a heavy saucepan or double boiler
1 square bakers unsweetened chocolate, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup
butter, and 1/3 cup milk. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly,
and cook 1 minute. Cool and beat until the frosting has a satin
finish.
About the author:
Go STEAMIN DOWN THE TRACKS WITH VIOLA HOCKENBERRY, a
storytelling cookbook -- and find Montana country cooking,
nostalgic stories, and gift ideas -- at Janette Blackwells Food
and Fiction, http://foodandfiction.com/Entrance.html -- or visit
her Delightful Food Directory,
http://delightfulfood.com/main.html