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femkes_follies) wrote2011-10-02 07:05 pm
femkes_follies) wrote2011-10-02 07:05 pm
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Hivemind moment
So, "everybody knows" that CocaCola Cake was invented during WWII right?
Hmmmm, was it? I can't find the smoking gun.
My 1943 Baker's Chocolate cookbook has a section on substitutions and includes a "no sugar" cake that has corn syrup instead. It also has advice on adapting most of the other recipes to replace part of the sugar with corn syrup or honey. Nothing about cola. Or even beet juice, which is supposedly the origin of Red Velvet.
Any thoughts/hints/places I should look? (Heck, anybody have an old CocaCola ad with the original purported recipe?)
Hmmmm, was it? I can't find the smoking gun.
My 1943 Baker's Chocolate cookbook has a section on substitutions and includes a "no sugar" cake that has corn syrup instead. It also has advice on adapting most of the other recipes to replace part of the sugar with corn syrup or honey. Nothing about cola. Or even beet juice, which is supposedly the origin of Red Velvet.
Any thoughts/hints/places I should look? (Heck, anybody have an old CocaCola ad with the original purported recipe?)