Serve with fresh fruit, whipped cream, pudding, drizzle with powdered sugar and water frosting, or just powdered sugar.
Vintage Cakes
Grandma was 94 when she passed away way back in 1974 she was born in Rome, Italy.
This type of heavy scratch cake was typical when they were lucky enough to have simple pantry ingredients, which was often during those depression era in the 1800s.
This was a treat to have a cake made with simple rendered pork fat, we use shortening now, plus some citrus for flavor (they sometimes could get vanilla bean but very rarely)
Simple, tea or coffee heavy cake usually had nothing on it unfrosted with just a sprinkle of granulated white sugar, maybe some currents or nuts which was a luxury.
Note: There were always baked in two pans or cast iron, but we adapted along the way to more modern vessels.
Try Some of My Other Favorite Cookies Recipes
24 Kinds of cookies
Jam Bow Ties
Cowboy Cookies
Pistachio Ricotta Cookies
Almond Paste Cookies

Grandma Victoria Ferraro Colenzo's (heavy scratch cake)
Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 45 MinTotal time: 50 Min
Old Fashioned citrus-flavored scratch heavy bundt cake
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- Beat till light around 5 minutes
- Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla, fresh lemon, fresh orange, and grated peels from both.
- Add 2 eggs beating after each addition
- Add 2 1/4 cups sifted flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Beat together into creamed mixture alternately with 1 cup milk plus 2 tablespoons milk.
- Bake into a greased and floured bundt pan for around 45 minutes or 2 greased and floured 9-inch pans at 375 for 20 minutes.
Thank you for sharing. Cheers !
ReplyDeleteThis sounds wonderful. I love recipes that have been passed down from family.
ReplyDeleteI love a heavy dense cake! Looks delicious!
ReplyDeletelooks amazing. I've been watching too much cake boss
ReplyDeletethanks.....you know this is one of my favorites to use for shortcake...strawberries and whipped cream....but the cake is fine by itself too!
ReplyDeleteMmmmm....this looks like MY kind of cake!!!
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