finished baking the Family Chocolate Pound cake. I am pleased with the result

[yellowdogintexas]

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Later on I am going to bake the cake part of the coconut cake and freeze the layers. I can frost it tomorrow.

I am also going to make some boiled custard. It is a way to use up all the egg yolks that are liberated when you separate out the egg whites for the cake. The recipe I am using will use 8 egg yolks; the cake uses 6 egg whites.
I can save the two extra egg whites and mix them up with some whole eggs for breakfast tomorrow .

My friend will get some in the traditional screw top jar and I will take the rest to the family dinner. I am willing to bet he has never heard of it but he is getting a coconut cake so he will get custard too.

( when I was growing up in Kentucky , during the holidays every refrigerator in town had at least one 1 quart Mason jar of boiled custard inside) We always had it with coconut cake, ambrosia and a little bit of "flavoring" AKA bourbon in our cups. Our ambrosia was all fresh citrus fruit, bananas, pineapple chunks and coconut; no marshmallows or creamy gunk.

[MOMFUDSKI]

1. Good for you cooking up a storm!

Nothing like family food to jog memories of Christmas Past. Merry Christmas 🎄

[nocoincidences]

2. I read this as

you finished EATING the whole cake.

[Bayard]

3. I did the same!

[yellowdogintexas]

7. Fixed! Thank you nt

[japple]

4. My husband's family always made a "hard sauce" that they served with pie--pecan, mincemeat.

It was basically butter, sugar, and a bit of bourbon (hence "hard&quot . You could substitute vanilla extract, brandy, or any other liquor but I never liked it as well as the bourbon. Of course, I like my bourbon straight up/no chaser.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. we always had "flavoring" for our custard - Bourbon

even the teetotaling Baptist old ladies had to have that "flavoring"

[Marthe48]

10. I was thinking of making some hard sauce

I don't have anything to put it on, just love it

[japple]

11. Make sandwich cookies with it, using vanilla (or chocolate) wafers. I love it, too.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. use up your stale bread by making up some bread pudding

pour hard sauce over the pudding

[Marthe48]

14. That sounds good

But, going to try to get back on my low-carb food plan. the hard sauce was just a sweet fantasy Hope you had a merry Christmas!

[Warpy]

5. My grandmother, whose savory cooking was ambrosial, wasn't a dessert cook

so on holidays, she'd buy a few jars of ,maraschino cherries, chop the cherries, and use gelatin to thicken the boozy juice with the chopped cherries in a sheet pan. She'd cut the result into small cubes and put them into dessert dishes.

It was interesting but remarkably unsweet. It was also the first time I got buzzed when I was three or four. It had a quite a kick for a little kid.

I made plum pudding one year, one of those things that should be tried once so the amount of labor that goes into it can be appreciated in a restaurant, plus the hard sauce to go with it. I wasn't impressed enoigh with it to repeat it but everybody else seemed to enjoy it. I'd have preferred my grandmother's dessert jelly.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. maraschino cherries are boozy? I did not know that

of course one could just spike the liquid. I hate those cherries so probably would not care anyway but it is interesting

[Warpy]

12. It might be somewhat artificial now

but back in the day, sugar and booze were the preservatives.

[MissMillie]

6. I am attempting something similar--a new recipe for me

Chocolate babka. The recipe comes from the Cook's Country cookbook.

I made the smart move of not mentioning it to family. If I screw it up, no one will miss it.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. one of these days I am going to attempt a babka

Ever since the "Babka" episode on Seinfeld I have wanted to try it

I love working with yeast dough

[yellowdogintexas]

16. Followup: My friend loved the coconut cake, and Yep he never heard of boiled custard

Family Christmas get together has been moved to this coming Friday due to a couple of sick members and a whole family out of town over the Christmas weekend

Consequently that chocolate pound cake is now history. Mr YD can't stay out of it when we have it in the house. He also finished off whatever custard I did not drink myself. So NOW I have to bake another one!!

I was watching "It's A Southern Thing" a couple of days ago and the video theme was Southern Christmas. Here is a quote: "Of course there will be egg nog...unless you are in Mississippi, Tennessee or Kentucky where you will get boiled custard" It's true!!

Another KY/TN Christmas tradition is Jam Cake, usually made with blackberry jam. It is basically a spice cake with the jam added and sometimes frosted with a cooked caramel icing. We always made one of those, a German Chocolate, and a coconut cake every year. My grandmother always made a brazil nut devil's food cake which was a ton of work because back then you could not get shelled Brazil Nuts, so she cracked and ground those suckers herself. They were folded into the batter; she slathered it with 7 minute frosting