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Home Peanut Butter Pie With Prepared Graham Cracker Crusts

My Moms Sunshine Cake Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Cook sugar and water until threads (not sure what this means)
  • Beat egg whites until stiff.
  • Pour syrup over egg whites, continuing to beat until cool.
  • Add beaten egg yolks and extract.
  • Sift flour, salt, cream of tartar together 6 times.
  • Fold in quickly.
  • Pour into a ungreased tube pan.
  • Bake in a slow over 325 degrees for one hour.
  • Turn upside down.
  • Allow to cool.
  • Cut from Pan.

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  • ttaaccoo 14 years ago
    This recipe is new to me! thank you for sharing your family's treasure. My dad always said "cooking is chemistry" and this cake recipe reflects a magical transformation in the pan! 55555
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    " It was excellent "
    tuilelaith ate it and said...
    Thank you for this post. i think by now people know the older the recipe the happier I am with it. I love hand me downs like this, they are so wonderful.
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    tuilelaith ate it and said...
    Thank you for this post. i think by now people know the older the recipe the happier I am with it. I love hand me downs like this, they are so wonderful.
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    " It was excellent "
    organicmama ate it and said...
    This does look good!
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  • lor 16 years ago
    Certainly looks like a keeper to me! Thank you for sharing an important part of your history Zena.
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  • msbooch75 16 years ago
    My Mom used to make a similar cake and I was able to get the recipe. I have passed it on to other family members and friends. It is so fine. Thanks for posting your recipe.
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  • krumkake 16 years ago
    I'm so glad you posted this, Zena...we can not lose these wonderful old recipes of our mothers, grandmothers, great-aunts and every other family member who loved to cook. I have printed this off so I don't forget it - the cake sounds devine!
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  • debbie919 16 years ago
    Great explanation, Rosemary! I learned the same from my mama too. And Zena, the cake sounds great!
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  • rosemaryblue 16 years ago
    Zena, I learned from my mother about "threads". You dip a spoon into the boiling sugar/water, then hold the spoon up, and when the mixture drops from the spoon it resembles a thread. ONLY if the mixture has cooked long enough, will the dropping liquid look like a thread. That is called "spinning a thread" or "threads". I have a candy recipe that is like this. Hope I have explained it clearly. :) And I love the recipe!
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