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[oxoniensis]

+ 100_ghosts is up and running again! There's a Halloweenish prompt up this week, so make tvm and me happy and play.

+ I am having a stressful week, and it's hitting my writing. Writing is supposed to be destressing me, so that is just Not On.

+ I ♥ Pushing Daises, to a ridiculous degree.

+ Sam/Ruby is my hot porny place right now. Well, that and vinylroad's

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[elenlilta]

Here it is; usually as a rule, traditional Southern recipes vary by family because of experimentation by cooks through the years. And usually red velvet cake takes a cream cheese frosting; my family does a different (but incredibly, incredibly good) icing with whipping cream.

Red Velvet Cake

1 1/2 c sugar
1/2 c Crisco
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 oz red food coloring
1 oz water
2 c flour
1 tsp salt
2 Tbls. cocoa
1 c buttermilk
1 tsp cider vinegar
1 tsp soda

Cream sugar, Crisco, eggs, vanilla, food coloring and water (fill empty food coloring bottle for the 1 oz of water). Sift flour, salt and cocoa together and add gradually to the creamed mixture. Add buttermilk and beat well (1 - 2 minutes on med speed). Mix vinegar and soda together in small bowl and fold into cake batter. Bake in two greased 8 inch layer pans or 9 x 13 pan in a 350 degrees oven for 25 minutes. If using the 8" pans for layering, it works best to put wax paper on bottom of pan so you can lift the cake out of the pans after they cool.

Whipped Cream Icing

4 c powdered sugar
1/3 c + 2 tsp whipping cream
dash salt
1/2 t almond flavoring

Mix together with beaters, adding sugar or whipping cream to desired thickness.

Enjoy!

[oxoniensis]

Thank you so much for this! I'm going to have to give this a try as soon as I get some time.

And thanks for the conversion link too - measurements and all sorts are very different. Just one question - by soda, do you mean baking soda, or some sort of fizzy drink?

[elenlilta]

Yeah, it's baking soda (and because I realized it while I was making my shopping list: Crisco = shortening).

[oxoniensis]

And shortening=lard - so many differences, it's crazy. I remember my first time in an American supermarket, I was lost trying to work out what stuff was. *g*

[elenlilta]

The camp I work at over the summers always has at least one or two staff from NZ/England/Australia, and playing the "what do you call this/how do you do this" game never gets old, no matter how many times you do it.