
English: 
welcome friends welcome back to Sunday
morning in the old cook book show today
we're going to do another recipe out of
my favorite recipe published by the
Stayner Sun around 1938 and we're going
to do something called a gumdrop cake Recipe
now this is something that I've had
requests for over and over and over and
it's kind of funny because the requests
don't always come from the same cookbook
this gumdrop cake is something that
you'll find in pretty much every
cookbook from this time period but
they're all different this cookbook has
four different versions of a gumdrop
cake in it and as I look through all of
our other Canadian cookbooks from around
this time period post-world War one
pre-world War two there's probably
almost a dozen different versions of a
gumdrop cake and pretty much all they
have in common is gumdrops and these are
a special kind of gumdrop they are a
baking gum and they are really really

English: 
welcome friends welcome back to Sunday
morning in the old cook book show today
we're going to do another recipe out of
my favorite recipe published by the
Stayner Sun around 1938 and we're going
to do something called a gumdrop cake Recipe
now this is something that I've had
requests for over and over and over and
it's kind of funny because the requests
don't always come from the same cookbook
this gumdrop cake is something that
you'll find in pretty much every
cookbook from this time period but
they're all different this cookbook has
four different versions of a gumdrop
cake in it and as I look through all of
our other Canadian cookbooks from around
this time period post-world War one
pre-world War two there's probably
almost a dozen different versions of a
gumdrop cake and pretty much all they
have in common is gumdrops and these are
a special kind of gumdrop they are a
baking gum and they are really really

English: 
hard if you were to just put these in
your mouth they wouldn't be very
pleasant to chew on but when you put
them in the cake they get really nice
and soft and they taste great so the
first thing we're going to do is cream
this butter once the butter is whipped
up and nice and soft cream in the sugar
until light and fluffy now we cream in
the eggs one at a time and creaming the
eggs in one at a time just makes it
easier to get them mixed in properly you
could dump them in both at the same time
but you're just going to end up mixing
longer to achieve the same result
and now the second egg and what we've
done so far is pretty much standard
between all of the variations of this
recipe this is where we start to get a

English: 
hard if you were to just put these in
your mouth they wouldn't be very
pleasant to chew on but when you put
them in the cake they get really nice
and soft and they taste great so the
first thing we're going to do is cream
this butter once the butter is whipped
up and nice and soft cream in the sugar
until light and fluffy now we cream in
the eggs one at a time and creaming the
eggs in one at a time just makes it
easier to get them mixed in properly you
could dump them in both at the same time
but you're just going to end up mixing
longer to achieve the same result
and now the second egg and what we've
done so far is pretty much standard
between all of the variations of this
recipe this is where we start to get a

English: 
little bit different this recipe calls
for applesauce now about a third of the
recipes that we found called for apples
applesauce the one that Julie makes that
was her grandmother's recipe was crushed
pineapple which is a really nice flavor
in this cake makes it feel really kind
of decadent and I guess for the 1930s
would be something very interesting this
recipe also calls for raisins now not
all of the recipes called for raisins
the one that Julie makes doesn't have
raisins in it and these raisins I've put
into a pot cover them with water and
boiled them for five minutes drain them
and let them cool before I put them in
here so these are these are already sort
of reconstituted or rehydrated so I'm
just going to mix these in it also says

English: 
little bit different this recipe calls
for applesauce now about a third of the
recipes that we found called for apples
applesauce the one that Julie makes that
was her grandmother's recipe was crushed
pineapple which is a really nice flavor
in this cake makes it feel really kind
of decadent and I guess for the 1930s
would be something very interesting this
recipe also calls for raisins now not
all of the recipes called for raisins
the one that Julie makes doesn't have
raisins in it and these raisins I've put
into a pot cover them with water and
boiled them for five minutes drain them
and let them cool before I put them in
here so these are these are already sort
of reconstituted or rehydrated so I'm
just going to mix these in it also says

English: 
at this point to put in one cup of the
three cups of flour so I'm just going to
mix this up a little bit get the
applesauce distributed and then I'll put
the flour in first though I'm gonna put
a little bit of flour on top of the
gumdrops I'm doing that because
everybody says you're supposed to I'm
not convinced it does anything but I'll
do it anyway because it doesn't hurt so
but a cup of flour and I'm going to put
the baking powder and the salt in the
rest of this flour and we'll just give
that a bit of a mix get everything going
all at once why not let's make a mess
okay we're gonna mix this in okay now a
little bit more flour and keep mixing

English: 
at this point to put in one cup of the
three cups of flour so I'm just going to
mix this up a little bit get the
applesauce distributed and then I'll put
the flour in first though I'm gonna put
a little bit of flour on top of the
gumdrops I'm doing that because
everybody says you're supposed to I'm
not convinced it does anything but I'll
do it anyway because it doesn't hurt so
but a cup of flour and I'm going to put
the baking powder and the salt in the
rest of this flour and we'll just give
that a bit of a mix get everything going
all at once why not let's make a mess
okay we're gonna mix this in okay now a
little bit more flour and keep mixing

English: 
I've got all the flour mixed in now it's
time for the gumdrops looking good now
I've prepped a baking pan with a bit of
parchment paper a sling so that it's
easy to pull the cake out and we're just
gonna put this in now it says to bake in
an oven around 250 to 300 degrees
Fahrenheit for 2 and a half hours so a
very low and slow cake baking of course
it didn't tell me what size of a pan and
now that I've got this in here I realize
my pan is too big so I'm gonna swap it
out for something smaller 9x9 much
better than 9 by 13 so this is going to
go into a very low and slow oven for
about two to two-and-a-half hours
so Glenn I see you've made some jujube
cake but this one has raisins it's just
very different than the one I'm used to
so it's yeah so it's it's a it's a

English: 
I've got all the flour mixed in now it's
time for the gumdrops looking good now
I've prepped a baking pan with a bit of
parchment paper a sling so that it's
easy to pull the cake out and we're just
gonna put this in now it says to bake in
an oven around 250 to 300 degrees
Fahrenheit for 2 and a half hours so a
very low and slow cake baking of course
it didn't tell me what size of a pan and
now that I've got this in here I realize
my pan is too big so I'm gonna swap it
out for something smaller 9x9 much
better than 9 by 13 so this is going to
go into a very low and slow oven for
about two to two-and-a-half hours
so Glenn I see you've made some jujube
cake but this one has raisins it's just
very different than the one I'm used to
so it's yeah so it's it's a it's a

English: 
different recipe there are so many
different jujube or gumdrop cake
Anniston and recipes in these books it
was hard to decide which one but this is
completely different than the one that
your mom makes her that you make every
year yes yes cuz I have cherries not
raisins yeah I don't know what else is
different
um pineapple you put pineapple in yours
yes these are the rest this is the
package recipes that hangs on our fridge
these are the ones we make all the time
and usually and they have a friend's
name attached to them because they've
been gifts of some sort so yeah so dark
cherries cherries not raisins and then
pineapple what's in this one that if not
what does it have applesauce okay so
that makes sense right because the
recipe I have would be a more modern
version and perhaps where this is 19
yeah 1930s Kent pineapple in the 1930s
probably wasn't enough talking yeah hmm

English: 
different recipe there are so many
different jujube or gumdrop cake
Anniston and recipes in these books it
was hard to decide which one but this is
completely different than the one that
your mom makes her that you make every
year yes yes cuz I have cherries not
raisins yeah I don't know what else is
different
um pineapple you put pineapple in yours
yes these are the rest this is the
package recipes that hangs on our fridge
these are the ones we make all the time
and usually and they have a friend's
name attached to them because they've
been gifts of some sort so yeah so dark
cherries cherries not raisins and then
pineapple what's in this one that if not
what does it have applesauce okay so
that makes sense right because the
recipe I have would be a more modern
version and perhaps where this is 19
yeah 1930s Kent pineapple in the 1930s
probably wasn't enough talking yeah hmm

English: 
one fun like this cake yeah - nothing
like the one my mom makes nothing like
the one your mom makes so I think the
difference is the flavor of the raisins
instead of the cherries
mm-hm and the one that you that your mom
makes or that you make mmm the pineapple
would give more of an acidic Tang than
the apple sauce does but still Wow
I love jujubes I know aren't they great
my teeth mm-hmm now some of the recipes
good jujubes are very chewy
excuse us as we chew gum drops not oh
sorry yes gum drops gun drops said that
twice gum drops drops not quite the same
I think jujubes would completely
disintegrate yeah they wouldn't the same

English: 
one fun like this cake yeah - nothing
like the one my mom makes nothing like
the one your mom makes so I think the
difference is the flavor of the raisins
instead of the cherries
mm-hm and the one that you that your mom
makes or that you make mmm the pineapple
would give more of an acidic Tang than
the apple sauce does but still Wow
I love jujubes I know aren't they great
my teeth mm-hmm now some of the recipes
good jujubes are very chewy
excuse us as we chew gum drops not oh
sorry yes gum drops gun drops said that
twice gum drops drops not quite the same
I think jujubes would completely
disintegrate yeah they wouldn't the same

English: 
which brings me to a second point in all
of these recipes there are several of
them that say don't use black gum drops
and I think that's because as they melt
the color would bleed out and it would
give you a cake that's sort of you could
get a really great great great happy yes
not taste great another thing that I
noticed is a lot of these recipes tell
you to wrap it and don't cut it for
seven days some of them are two weeks to
treat it just like you would a Christmas
cake so again this is a Christmas time
Christmas cake this is a is a cake that
you roll out at Christmas and some of my
cousins who hate Christmas cake yeah
love this so as a child I found
Christmas cake to be overwhelmingly rich
yeah a lot of things mince meat I still
find mince meat to be overwhelming
Christmas cake cuz there's some cake
involved I've managed to you know yeah
I'm okay with it but so this was the
substitute that my family made for me

English: 
which brings me to a second point in all
of these recipes there are several of
them that say don't use black gum drops
and I think that's because as they melt
the color would bleed out and it would
give you a cake that's sort of you could
get a really great great great happy yes
not taste great another thing that I
noticed is a lot of these recipes tell
you to wrap it and don't cut it for
seven days some of them are two weeks to
treat it just like you would a Christmas
cake so again this is a Christmas time
Christmas cake this is a is a cake that
you roll out at Christmas and some of my
cousins who hate Christmas cake yeah
love this so as a child I found
Christmas cake to be overwhelmingly rich
yeah a lot of things mince meat I still
find mince meat to be overwhelming
Christmas cake cuz there's some cake
involved I've managed to you know yeah
I'm okay with it but so this was the
substitute that my family made for me

English: 
yeah and it's fun and it is fun it's
tennis tasty so this is this is worth a
try any of the gumdrop cake recipes and
you can see just the guy idea of a
gumdrop me so much joy it's so much joy
any of the recipes would be would be
good I think they'd all have a similar
flavor
and it's of course it's something with
the ingredients that you could play with
you know you could put some peel in that
if you wanted if you didn't want to put
the raisins in you can put in some peel
now you're almost making it like not
gummed up cake I know there's a risk of
too much other stuff other than gumdrops
gumdrops okay
gumdrops thanks for stopping by see you
again soon
you

English: 
yeah and it's fun and it is fun it's
tennis tasty so this is this is worth a
try any of the gumdrop cake recipes and
you can see just the guy idea of a
gumdrop me so much joy it's so much joy
any of the recipes would be would be
good I think they'd all have a similar
flavor
and it's of course it's something with
the ingredients that you could play with
you know you could put some peel in that
if you wanted if you didn't want to put
the raisins in you can put in some peel
now you're almost making it like not
gummed up cake I know there's a risk of
too much other stuff other than gumdrops
gumdrops okay
gumdrops thanks for stopping by see you
again soon
you
