A Blast From the Past

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
(from scratch)
http://www.welton.net/nana/food_pics/pinapple_cake.jpg

· 2 egg yolks
· 3/4 cup sugar
· 1/4 cup boiling pineapple juice
· 3/4 cup cake flour
· 1/8 teaspoon salt
· 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
· 2 stiff-beaten egg whites
· maraschino cherries
Beat yolks until very thick, gradually add sugar and continue beating.
Add boiling pineapple juice, mix well. Add sifted dry ingredients, mix
until smooth. Fold in beaten egg whites.

Melt 1/4-cup butter in 8-inch square cake pan or 8 inch round cake
pan. Add 2/3-cup brown sugar. Over this arrange pineapple slices to
cover pan. Place a maraschino cherry in the center of each pineapple
slice. Pour cake batter over pineapple slices.

Bake for 30 minutes at 325° or until a toothpick inserted into the
center of the cake comes out clean.

Cool five minutes, invert on plate.

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When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Woah! Too weird, I landed here however long ago in my
quest for a recipe for pineapple upside-down cake. Now,
today, on the way out of Williams-Sonoma, I grabbed a
catalog. Came across what looked to me like the dumbest
cooking tool. A cake pan for pineapple upside-down cake
with indentations for where to put the pineapple rings.

What are the odds!?

nancy

sf said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

About 6 months ago. It is one of my favourites.

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When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
(from scratch)
http://www.welton.net/nana/food_pics/pinapple_cake.jpg

[snip]

July 16, 2005. It's the _only_ cake my BIL will eat. His mom does one
for him every Christmas, too.

The Ranger

Nancy Young said:

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Quoted message said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Woah! Too weird, I landed here however long ago in my
quest for a recipe for pineapple upside-down cake. Now,
today, on the way out of Williams-Sonoma, I grabbed a
catalog. Came across what looked to me like the dumbest
cooking tool. A cake pan for pineapple upside-down cake
with indentations for where to put the pineapple rings.

What are the odds!?

I have a lot of W-S commissioned Nordic Ware, If I didn't already have
so many I'd probably get that pineapple one too. Nordic Ware is
wonderful for baking, and makes even a simple box cake look gourmet.
Only thing you gotta have a toothbrush to clean all those crevises.

Wayne Boatwright wrote on 13 Aug 2005 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Back in the 1930s, Chicago Metallic made a special upside-down cake
pan, and a recipe was included. That's the one my mom always used,
and the one I use.

So post the recipe

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But the ears...Ah the ears.
The ears keep the hat up.

"Wayne Boatwright" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Back in the 1930s, Chicago Metallic made a special upside-down cake pan,
and a recipe was included. That's the one my mom always used, and the one
I use.

Uh ... oops ... ignore my previous post.

nancy

On Sat 13 Aug 2005 05:55:49p, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
(from scratch)
http://www.welton.net/nana/food_pics/pinapple_cake.jpg

· 2 egg yolks
· 3/4 cup sugar
· 1/4 cup boiling pineapple juice
· 3/4 cup cake flour
· 1/8 teaspoon salt
· 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
· 2 stiff-beaten egg whites
· maraschino cherries
Beat yolks until very thick, gradually add sugar and continue beating.
Add boiling pineapple juice, mix well. Add sifted dry ingredients, mix
until smooth. Fold in beaten egg whites.

Melt 1/4-cup butter in 8-inch square cake pan or 8 inch round cake
pan. Add 2/3-cup brown sugar. Over this arrange pineapple slices to
cover pan. Place a maraschino cherry in the center of each pineapple
slice. Pour cake batter over pineapple slices.

Bake for 30 minutes at 325° or until a toothpick inserted into the
center of the cake comes out clean.

Cool five minutes, invert on plate.

Honestly? About two months ago! We love this. Amazingly, this recipe is
virtually the same as the one I use, using the same proportions, but mine
makes 25% more batter. I really prefer this type of cake (more like a
sponge cake than a butter type cake) for PUDC because I think it works
better with the butter/sugar syrup formed from the topping. Most of the
recipes call for a butter type cake.

Back in the 1930s, Chicago Metallic made a special upside-down cake pan,
and a recipe was included. That's the one my mom always used, and the one
I use.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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On Sat 13 Aug 2005 06:23:26p, Mr Libido Incognito wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright wrote on 13 Aug 2005 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Back in the 1930s, Chicago Metallic made a special upside-down cake
pan, and a recipe was included. That's the one my mom always used,
and the one I use.

So post the recipe

Okay, here 'tis. I didn't post it before because, as I said, the only
difference is the amount of batter.

* Exported from MasterCook *

Mother's Pineapple Upside-down Cake - 1932

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cakes Desserts

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1/2 c Butter
1 c Brown sugar
7 sl Pineapple
7 ea Maraschino cherries
3 ea Eggs, separated
1 c Granulated sugar
5 tb Pineapple juice
1 c All-purpose flour
1 t Baking powder

Melt one half cup butter in a large iron frying pan. Add one cup brown
sugar and spread evenly over bottom of "Up-Side-Down" Pan. Lay complete
wheel of pineapple in center. Put cherry in center and place half
wheels
around as in picture. make following sponge batter--Beat yolks of three
eggs, add one cup granulated sugar and five tablespoons of pineapple
juice. Sift in one cup of flour and one teaspoon baking powder. Fold
into
stiffly beaten egg whites. pour over fruit. Bake forty-five minutes to
hour in moderate oven.

Note: This recipe was included with a concave-bottom "Up-Side-Down"
Cake
Pan my mother purchased in the late 1930's. It was manufactured by the
Chicago Mettalic Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1932.

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Nancy Young said:

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Quoted message said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Woah! Too weird, I landed here however long ago in my
quest for a recipe for pineapple upside-down cake. Now,
today, on the way out of Williams-Sonoma, I grabbed a
catalog. Came across what looked to me like the dumbest
cooking tool. A cake pan for pineapple upside-down cake
with indentations for where to put the pineapple rings.

What are the odds!?

nancy

Do you think there's a message there for you? Such as "buy pinepple
futures?" :>

Sometimes weird things happen. Just sticking with rfc, 10 years ago I
posted one of my grandmother's recipes here. A few days later I got
an e-mail from someone who said it looked just like his mother's
recipe (amounts, ingredients, etc.). Since it was an unusual recipe
for a type of breadstick, I asked a few questions about where he was
from, his family, etc.. To get to the punchline, it turned out that
his mother was my grandmother's sister and no wonder the recipes were
similar, they were the same. He had moved away years ago and his
mother and my grandmother had passed away so no one kept in touch.
Needless to say this episode caused a stir in the family.

I still marvel over it the odds of posting a recipe and finding a
relative!

Then there was the Barbarella incident... and the Staples
incident....

But I can't win the dang lottery!

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

On Sat 13 Aug 2005 06:38:08p, Curly Sue wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Nancy Young said:

"sf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Woah! Too weird, I landed here however long ago in my
quest for a recipe for pineapple upside-down cake. Now, today, on the
way out of Williams-Sonoma, I grabbed a catalog. Came across what
looked to me like the dumbest cooking tool. A cake pan for pineapple
upside-down cake with indentations for where to put the pineapple
rings.

What are the odds!?

nancy

Do you think there's a message there for you? Such as "buy pinepple
futures?" :>

Sometimes weird things happen. Just sticking with rfc, 10 years ago I
posted one of my grandmother's recipes here. A few days later I got
an e-mail from someone who said it looked just like his mother's
recipe (amounts, ingredients, etc.). Since it was an unusual recipe
for a type of breadstick, I asked a few questions about where he was
from, his family, etc.. To get to the punchline, it turned out that
his mother was my grandmother's sister and no wonder the recipes were
similar, they were the same. He had moved away years ago and his
mother and my grandmother had passed away so no one kept in touch.
Needless to say this episode caused a stir in the family.

I still marvel over it the odds of posting a recipe and finding a
relative!

Then there was the Barbarella incident... and the Staples
incident....

But I can't win the dang lottery!

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Yes, weird happenings. A while back, I posted a recipe in response to a
request. An e-mail exchange ensued. Long story short, the sister of the
OP was best of friends with a long lost 2nd cousin of mine. We were put in
touch and have been corresponding about our family tree. There are about
2000 miles between us.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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Wayne Boatwright wrote on 13 Aug 2005 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Note: This recipe was included with a concave-bottom
"Up-Side-Down"
Cake
Pan my mother purchased in the late 1930's. It was manufactured
by the Chicago Mettalic Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1932.

That's interesting....a smallish jelly roll pan I bought Recently was
from the same Company

--
The eyes are the mirrors....
But the ears...Ah the ears.
The ears keep the hat up.

On Sat 13 Aug 2005 07:10:01p, Mr Libido Incognito wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright wrote on 13 Aug 2005 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Note: This recipe was included with a concave-bottom
"Up-Side-Down"
Cake
Pan my mother purchased in the late 1930's. It was manufactured
by the Chicago Mettalic Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1932.

That's interesting....a smallish jelly roll pan I bought Recently was
from the same Company

Chicago Metallic is still going strong and makes some very good bakeware.

http://www.bakingpans.com/

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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Nancy Young said:

"sf" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Woah! Too weird, I landed here however long ago in my
quest for a recipe for pineapple upside-down cake. Now,
today, on the way out of Williams-Sonoma, I grabbed a
catalog. Came across what looked to me like the dumbest
cooking tool. A cake pan for pineapple upside-down cake
with indentations for where to put the pineapple rings.

What are the odds!?

What? Are you saying that W-S catalog didn't have a little box next
to the pan with a recipe??? Amazing!

On Sat 13 Aug 2005 07:10:01p, Mr Libido Incognito wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Wayne Boatwright wrote on 13 Aug 2005 in rec.food.cooking

Quoted message said:

Note: This recipe was included with a concave-bottom
"Up-Side-Down"
Cake
Pan my mother purchased in the late 1930's. It was manufactured
by the Chicago Mettalic Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1932.

That's interesting....a smallish jelly roll pan I bought Recently was
from the same Company

Chicago Metallic is still going strong and make very good quality bakeware.

http://www.bakingpans.com/

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

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When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
(from scratch)
snip<

A few months ago... 😄

sf said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
(from scratch)

Maybe not this exact recipe, last week and it was cooked in a large cast
iron skillet. Even better than this.

jim

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sf said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Probably 20 years ago or more. I did make two peach upside down
cakes, though, a couple weeks ago, which were quite tasty and received
very well by the kids in our youth group. 🙂

Regards,
Ranee

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JimLane said:

sf said:

When was the last time you ate this?

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
(from scratch)

Maybe not this exact recipe, last week and it was cooked in a large cast
iron skillet. Even better than this.

Cool! An iron skillet is the perfect pan for this. Where's your
recipe?