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welcome friends welcome back to Sunday
morning in the old cook book show today
we're going to do a recipe out of the
mixing bowl published in 1930 by the
ladies aid the Welland County General
Hospital from Welland Ontario and if you
don't know where well India is it's in
southern Ontario the Niagara Peninsula
and it's it's a fairly important city or
town for shipping on the Great Lakes
because the Welland Canal runs through
Welland and it's the only way that ships
can get past Niagara Falls so today
we're gonna do a recipe called banana
cake and I think this is interesting
because in 1930 you were just starting
to see bananas used in cakes up until
the late 1920s like 1927 and on if you
saw a banana cake it was generally a
vanilla or chocolate cake that had

English: 
welcome friends welcome back to Sunday
morning in the old cook book show today
we're going to do a recipe out of the
mixing bowl published in 1930 by the
ladies aid the Welland County General
Hospital from Welland Ontario and if you
don't know where well India is it's in
southern Ontario the Niagara Peninsula
and it's it's a fairly important city or
town for shipping on the Great Lakes
because the Welland Canal runs through
Welland and it's the only way that ships
can get past Niagara Falls so today
we're gonna do a recipe called banana
cake and I think this is interesting
because in 1930 you were just starting
to see bananas used in cakes up until
the late 1920s like 1927 and on if you
saw a banana cake it was generally a
vanilla or chocolate cake that had

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bananas sliced and then put between the
layers or just sliced and put on top
they weren't actually put into the
batter so this is this is a shift in the
way people were using bananas to bake
with and it's not until two or three
years after this that you start to see
banana bread recipes show up or banana
loaf recipes show up so I've got one and
a half and Anna's in here and I'm gonna
start mashing it and then I'm going to
add in white sugar and brown sugar and
cream it all together
okay that half banana isn't gonna go to
waste
we're gonna use it in the icing so now I
have shortening and in this time period
the recipe just says shortening but it
could have been pork lard it could have
been vegetable shortening or it could
have been beef but knowing this region

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bananas sliced and then put between the
layers or just sliced and put on top
they weren't actually put into the
batter so this is this is a shift in the
way people were using bananas to bake
with and it's not until two or three
years after this that you start to see
banana bread recipes show up or banana
loaf recipes show up so I've got one and
a half and Anna's in here and I'm gonna
start mashing it and then I'm going to
add in white sugar and brown sugar and
cream it all together
okay that half banana isn't gonna go to
waste
we're gonna use it in the icing so now I
have shortening and in this time period
the recipe just says shortening but it
could have been pork lard it could have
been vegetable shortening or it could
have been beef but knowing this region

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I'm gonna say it was probably pork lard
now the order that it tells me to add
things kind of goes against everything I
think I know about making cakes I would
have put the lard in and creamed it
together with the two sugars then added
an egg and then added the banana for
some reason it wanted me to start with
the banana and I'm a little bit worried
that it's not mixing together correctly
but we'll see in the end so in goes one
egg and we're gonna mix that in
okay so here I have flour and to that
I'm going to add baking soda and baking
powder and just give that a bit of a
stir and we also need three tablespoons
of milk so let's see three tablespoons

English: 
I'm gonna say it was probably pork lard
now the order that it tells me to add
things kind of goes against everything I
think I know about making cakes I would
have put the lard in and creamed it
together with the two sugars then added
an egg and then added the banana for
some reason it wanted me to start with
the banana and I'm a little bit worried
that it's not mixing together correctly
but we'll see in the end so in goes one
egg and we're gonna mix that in
okay so here I have flour and to that
I'm going to add baking soda and baking
powder and just give that a bit of a
stir and we also need three tablespoons
of milk so let's see three tablespoons

English: 
there we go so at this point I'm going
to switch to a rubber spatula and I'm
going to mix in a little bit of the
flour and then a little bit of the milk
and then a little bit of the flour
now just like most of the cookbooks that
we have from this time period there's no
instructions about baking there's
nothing about the size of pan to use
there's nothing about the temperature I
have both a nine by nine and an eight by
eight I kind of guess that the eight by
eight is the one that I need to use I'm
on the fence but I'm gonna give the
eight by eight ago I put a parchment
paper sling in it just so it's easy to
get the cake out and now we'll put the
batter in we'll get it in the oven and
once the cake is cooled we'll move on to

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there we go so at this point I'm going
to switch to a rubber spatula and I'm
going to mix in a little bit of the
flour and then a little bit of the milk
and then a little bit of the flour
now just like most of the cookbooks that
we have from this time period there's no
instructions about baking there's
nothing about the size of pan to use
there's nothing about the temperature I
have both a nine by nine and an eight by
eight I kind of guess that the eight by
eight is the one that I need to use I'm
on the fence but I'm gonna give the
eight by eight ago I put a parchment
paper sling in it just so it's easy to
get the cake out and now we'll put the
batter in we'll get it in the oven and
once the cake is cooled we'll move on to

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making the frosting okay so the cake is
cool let's make the frosting so this
this frosting is a new one for me it's
one egg white and you beat it until it's
stiff and dry and then you add icing
sugar enough to make the frosting of the
icing then you add the half of a mashed
banana left over from the first part and
a little bit of vanilla and I've never
made this exact style so I'm kind of
interested to find out what it's like
what the texture is like and and what
the flavor is light and it is a raw egg
white there's no cooking so there are
lots of egg white frostings or icings
that would require cooking this is not
one of them so if you're afraid of raw
egg whites I would avoid this so it
doesn't say how much powdered sugar just
enough so I'm gonna put it in maybe two
tablespoons at a time and see where that
gets us

English: 
making the frosting okay so the cake is
cool let's make the frosting so this
this frosting is a new one for me it's
one egg white and you beat it until it's
stiff and dry and then you add icing
sugar enough to make the frosting of the
icing then you add the half of a mashed
banana left over from the first part and
a little bit of vanilla and I've never
made this exact style so I'm kind of
interested to find out what it's like
what the texture is like and and what
the flavor is light and it is a raw egg
white there's no cooking so there are
lots of egg white frostings or icings
that would require cooking this is not
one of them so if you're afraid of raw
egg whites I would avoid this so it
doesn't say how much powdered sugar just
enough so I'm gonna put it in maybe two
tablespoons at a time and see where that
gets us

English: 
okay so I don't know if I've got enough
sugar in there but it is pretty stiff at
this point so I'm gonna add the banana
and then maybe add a little bit more
sugar later if I need it I'll probably
put the vanilla in right now as well and
again it doesn't say how much vanilla
I'm just gonna free pour cuz I like to
free pour vanilla there we go and I'll
just keep mixing and if you've been
hanging around here for a while you'll
know I'm not the kind of person that
likes ice and cakes and if you're the
kind of person that feels you need to
cut off the crown on the cake go right
ahead
I'm not that person I kind of like it
don't in the middle

English: 
okay so I don't know if I've got enough
sugar in there but it is pretty stiff at
this point so I'm gonna add the banana
and then maybe add a little bit more
sugar later if I need it I'll probably
put the vanilla in right now as well and
again it doesn't say how much vanilla
I'm just gonna free pour cuz I like to
free pour vanilla there we go and I'll
just keep mixing and if you've been
hanging around here for a while you'll
know I'm not the kind of person that
likes ice and cakes and if you're the
kind of person that feels you need to
cut off the crown on the cake go right
ahead
I'm not that person I kind of like it
don't in the middle

English: 
okay so this is a banana cake hey
friends oh yeah we have a few extra
three brown ones yes whoo and so this is
from the dawn of banana cake the dawn
banana banana cake yeah I mentioned
earlier boom boom ba I don't know why
that came to the music but you know I as
I mentioned earlier up until this point
banana cakes pretty much we're just a
vanilla or chocolate cake with sliced
bananas between the layers or on top
okay this is one of them actually and
this is one of the first recipes with
banana actually do they actually in some
recipes you can identify this person
said we'll shop the banana and put it
now I haven't found that yet and then so
this goes this is 1930 the first banana
bread recipe people seem to point to a
1933 recipe book but when you look at a
recipe versus bread cake it's just
hacked loaf vs. loaf yeah I like that

English: 
okay so this is a banana cake hey
friends oh yeah we have a few extra
three brown ones yes whoo and so this is
from the dawn of banana cake the dawn
banana banana cake yeah I mentioned
earlier boom boom ba I don't know why
that came to the music but you know I as
I mentioned earlier up until this point
banana cakes pretty much we're just a
vanilla or chocolate cake with sliced
bananas between the layers or on top
okay this is one of them actually and
this is one of the first recipes with
banana actually do they actually in some
recipes you can identify this person
said we'll shop the banana and put it
now I haven't found that yet and then so
this goes this is 1930 the first banana
bread recipe people seem to point to a
1933 recipe book but when you look at a
recipe versus bread cake it's just
hacked loaf vs. loaf yeah I like that

English: 
the the icing is kind of a crunchy mhmmm
mm-hmm I love that it's amazing so
bananas in the icing
they were thrifty with the bananas
because I imagine in 1930 bananas were
yeah they weren't the ubiquitous fruit
today oh yeah they weren't they were a
lot like bananas came from Central
America to North America in the 1870s I
mean it was pre Cavendish banana - yes I
believe it was pre funky Cavendish and
even in the 1930s because of the lack of
refrigeration during transport they
would still arrive not always great but
this I would I would have so this says
one unhappen anise I tell me more I'd
probably put in two bananas at least so
you mend the recipe that suggests no I'm
just gonna tell you I would put in two
bananas I think I think it could stand
two bananas definitely but the icing is
great I was a little worried about the
icing but the icing tastes really nice

English: 
the the icing is kind of a crunchy mhmmm
mm-hmm I love that it's amazing so
bananas in the icing
they were thrifty with the bananas
because I imagine in 1930 bananas were
yeah they weren't the ubiquitous fruit
today oh yeah they weren't they were a
lot like bananas came from Central
America to North America in the 1870s I
mean it was pre Cavendish banana - yes I
believe it was pre funky Cavendish and
even in the 1930s because of the lack of
refrigeration during transport they
would still arrive not always great but
this I would I would have so this says
one unhappen anise I tell me more I'd
probably put in two bananas at least so
you mend the recipe that suggests no I'm
just gonna tell you I would put in two
bananas I think I think it could stand
two bananas definitely but the icing is
great I was a little worried about the
icing but the icing tastes really nice

English: 
why so cuz it's one egg white
with icing sugar and a banana well that
would explain why it's got that kind of
that kind of class yeah ooh I love it
when there's banana in the icing I'm
just digging at the I say oops and I
also love that all the ads phone number
yeah he need to get a hold of general
hardware call six five two digits in the
phone number isn't that amazing
that's how many people had fun I guess
in that name right no two midgets in the
phone number that's absolutely crazy so
this is a winner I do like this is a
very simple cake thanks for stopping by
see you again soon
you

English: 
why so cuz it's one egg white
with icing sugar and a banana well that
would explain why it's got that kind of
that kind of class yeah ooh I love it
when there's banana in the icing I'm
just digging at the I say oops and I
also love that all the ads phone number
yeah he need to get a hold of general
hardware call six five two digits in the
phone number isn't that amazing
that's how many people had fun I guess
in that name right no two midgets in the
phone number that's absolutely crazy so
this is a winner I do like this is a
very simple cake thanks for stopping by
see you again soon
you
