welcome friends welcome back to Sunday
morning and another one of our old
cookbook shows today we're going to do
another recipe out of the five roses
cookbook put out by the Lake of the
Woods milling company and we're gonna
try something today called pepper cake
it uses black pepper as one of the
flavorings something you don't often see
in cakes so I'm going to start out with
creaming the butter so put the butter
into the stand mixer and start softening
that up okay while the butter is
softening I'll deal with the dry
ingredients so I have flour baking soda
cinnamon black pepper and nutmeg and
we'll just give that a bit of a stir
okay the butter has softened up nicely
so next in is some white sugar and we'll
cream that in and at the same time it
also calls for baking syrup baking syrup
isn't something that you see in a lot of
mainline grocery stores in Canada
anymore it's essentially refiner syrup
so if you can get baking surfer refiners
syrup go ahead and use that I think
Lyle's golden syrup in the UK is a
refiners syrup if you're in North
America and you can't get it corn syrup
corn syrup works and so we just pour
that in
and next in our two eggs one at a time
you put one egg in and you make sure it
blends in fully before you put it in a
second now a lot of people ask me this
question why why why do I do that why
can't I just put all the eggs in at once
and I don't know that it's critical I
think you probably could put all the
eggs in it wants to put what I found is
that if you put one egg in let it mix in
fully and then put the second one in
they are going to mix into the batter
better then if you put them in all at
once sometimes it just doesn't mix in
correctly it's up to you if you find the
other way works go right ahead
in the end it doesn't take long for the
first one to mix in anyway so there's
not a huge time savings by putting them
all in at once
okay next in is a half cup of sour cream
it's about right
maybe a bit more okay now I just turn
the mixer down to low and I spoon in the
flour mixture a little bit at a time
don't overload the mixing bowl okay last
addition are some raisins I'm going to
pop those in and just stir them in it's
a really nice kick batter really nice
and light and fluffy okay so the only
instruction for this cake is to bake for
40 minutes doesn't say the temperature
or the size of the pan so I've got a 9
by 9 with a sling in it just so that the
cake will come out easily and we'll
transfer this in the oven is preheated
to 350 okay
smooth the top just a little bit into
the oven
hey Glenn hey friends okay I'm not gonna
tell you what this one is what sounds
smell cinnamony if there is spice
there's spice there is it one of them
because I never get it right I always
say things like smells like this and
you're like oh there's none of that in
it yes there's there is cinnamon in it
okay I see raisins
yes sir Brown so now that has a lot of
brown sugar and molasses perhaps it was
a pretty standard kind of spicy cake
mmm-hmm mmm so it has baking syrup in it
um which is just a refiner syrup a
darker refiner serpentine it's an invert
sugar okay um it's got a bit of a bite
to it though
like after you've eaten it mm-hmm so my
initial has black pepper in it hmm
so my initial taste was oh I can't taste
the pepper but after I've chewed it
it's like yeah and it's not necessarily
peppery but they you know they have
pepper kind of adds that ah yeah like
it's it's a little bit of heat it's not
hot it's not peppery yeah it's not like
someone put hot sauce in it no it's just
a little bit of heat after you've eaten
it interesting
Wow there's some spice in this game what
inspired someone to put pepper in it I
have no idea do you know of any other do
you know of any other mm-hm
recipes that have pepper in it like this
I'm curious as a I mean
spices and cakes make sense yes and we
eat a lot of cake and and and pepper is
a spice so it makes sense to have pepper
in a spice cake but um I've never had it
and I've never seen another cake with it
in it and I'm sure though that it is
part of someone's culture that it has
made it into this this book I mean it
tastes it
he's great I'm in this is this is a
pretty good kick I like that um you
probably put like a light cream cheese
icing on it yeah that would level but
really really yeah okay so don't fear
putting pepper in a sweet cake it
actually works really nicely thanks for
stopping by see you again soon
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