Friday, October 18, 2024

the friday feed: apple cake

In the early '80s I worked as a corporate litigation paralegal at the largest law firm in Dayton. It was a nice set up: our offices took up four floors of the Mead Building. Our bosses were on the 18th floor, the four paralegals who worked for them were on the 4th floor. We worked hard but we had fun. Most every Friday one of us would bring in a treat of some sort to celebrate the end of the work week.

One woman really upped the game with her homemade apple cake and she graciously shared the recipe. I have made this countless times over the years. I recently baked this apple cake and took it to the farm. I started thinking about when my friend gave the recipe to me and it's getting old! 40+ years now. 

This was back in the day when recipes were written on cards or kept in a small 7-ring binder notebook. I have handwritten recipe books and cards from my grandma, my mom, and me. My daughters' generation looks up their recipes on the computer, either from a Google search or cooking websites. I wonder if my girls will want all these hard copies when the time comes to pass them along. 





2 comments:

  1. My sister kept my mother's handwritten brown book. I treasure her 1970's issue of the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, I learned to cook beyond the basics from that book.

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  2. That recipe is very similar to one I make 2 or three times a year. But my recipe is only about 5 years old and I got it from David Lebovitz web site. He called it a French Apple Cake.

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