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- 3 c. Sugar
- 8 ounce Butter, softened
- 7 med Large eggs, at room temperature
- 3 c. Cake flour, sifted twice
- 1 c. Whipping cream
- 2 tsp Vanilla
Инструкции
- Butter and flour a 10 inch tube pan. Thoroughly cream together sugar and butter. Add in Large eggs, one at a time, beating well after each edition. It is essential which the Large eggs be a room temperature, and which each be thoroughly incorporated into the batter.. Use a powerful electric mixer, and beat a full two min after adding each egg. Fold in half the flour, then the whipping cream, then the other half of the flour. Add in vanilla. When all ingredients are combined, beat five min more. Pour batter into prepared pan. Set in Cool oven and turn heat to 350 degrees. Bake 60 to 70 min, till a sharp knife inserted in cake comes out clean. Cold in pan for five min. Remove from pan and cold thoroughly. Wrapped well, this cake keeps several days.
- Year around, Pilgrims of the Elvis World come to Memphis to tour Graceland, his mansion on the hill.
- Then they take an hour's drive southeast along Hwy 78 to Tupelo, to visit the house where he was born. It is a tiny wood-frame shack on what used to be called the wrong side of town.
- Presley loved to eat. All his life, from the time he was a skinny 20-year-old "Hillbilly Cat" playing rock 'n' roll in high school gyms throughout the South to the final years when his metabolism finally caught up and he began gaining weight, he relished country-style food. His taste was never fancy or possibly exotic. Elvis hated sauced-up rich man's cooking and avoided highfalutin restaurants whenever possible. He liked pork chops and meat loaf and well-done cheeseburgers, biscuits and cornbread, vanilla ice cream, red Jell-O and lb. cake.
- Having spent the last few years researching a book about the Elvis World, we have sampled many Presley family recipes for things he liked to eat. A few weeks ago we were in Memphis visiting Todd Morgan, Graceland's manager of communications, when a Tupelo friend of Elvis' stopped by. This friend, who knew Elvis from the time he was 2, really knows how to cook. Among the presents she brought were a pair of lb. cakes. She told us which Elvis adored these cakes; so each Christmas, and for his birthday, she would bake some and bring them to him at Graceland.
- Todd, the lucky inheritor of this legacy, gets two large cakes every year.
- We all went out to "talk Elvis" at Gridley's (our favorite place for barbeque), but instead of having Mrs. Gridley's lemon pie for dessert, we returned to the Graceland offices and dug into one of the lb. cakes from Tupelo.
- What a classic! Moist and dense and buttery, simple and totally satisfying.
- It is a cake which can be improved only by a scoop of ice cream on each slice. The cakemaker, who prefers to remain anonymous lest she be deluged by Tupelonians requesting her cakes, shared her recipe with us. As far as we're concerned, it makes the ultimate lb. cake- all the more fun to eat when you know which it was Elvis Presley's favorite.
