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Tomato Soup Cake This '50s classic was usually frosted with either Cream Cheese Frosting or a very simple Buttercream of the butter/icing sugar/milk/vanilla variety. It's alternative name was "Mystery Cake" because of the color and the fact that no one ever guessed what the magic ingredient was. Please, do not skin, seed and generally expend time and effort making your own artisanal tomato soup! Go for the canned. I compared my smeary recipe card version with "Joy of Cooking" (1975) It's essentially the same cake, differing only in the spicing and fruit/nut proportions. Oven: 350 Pan: Tube pan, greased Tomato Soup Cake 2 T. soft butter 2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 t. salt 1 t. baking soda 1 t. cinnamon 1/2 t. each dry ginger, cloves and nutmeg 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup raisins 1/2 cup walnuts 1 10 1/2 oz. can condensed tomato soup. Sift together the dry ingredients. (except for the sugar) Cream together the butter and sugar until soft and fluffy. Add the tomato soup and the flour mixture alternately in three turns, stirring well between each addition. Stir in the nuts and raisins. Bake for approx. 45 minutes. You know your oven better than I do! Keywords: Dessert, Easy, Cake, American ( RG611 )

Yes. Oh Lordy!

Damn, that's good! (In Dark Lady Mode) My mother is one of the two or three best cooks I know. She shops for ingredients on an average of four times a day, she's adventurous, her knives are sharp, her pots and pans are top of the line. We usually spend half our weekly phone call talking about food. My brother and sister in law are caterers. When they catered my mother's 70th, Ian commented: "Gee, this is the only place I know where people are disappointed when they find out we're cooking." And yes, she has homemade fresh, dry, fine amd medium breadcrumbs lined up in labelled containers in her freezer. Ditto chicken, beef, veal and seafood stock. Man, is is a pleasure to cook in her house!

Sad, isn't it? I have it on good authority that she's never had grits, either. We're gonna fix this when she gets to North Carolina in October. I intend to hold you to that, Archie.

Welcome, chateaubien!. I am making the assumption that you're Canadian, like me, both from your name and your acquaintance with Tomato Soup Cake. I'll try to remember to post a recipe within the next couple of days. If not, nag me.

Actually, My Muse can hardly work under any other conditions!

Go ahead. Rub it in, you Big Meanie!

Or, remove 2 T. of AP from the cup, and substitute 2 T. cornstarch.

Thanks, Holly. It does look as I'd imagined it: Kind of grey and gluey and lumpy. (Not that it's a bad thing, or anything.)

This is still really, really Funny Stuff, and I'm plugging this round shamelessly. C'mon...I'll extend the deadline until Sunday, September 21st, midnight. I know a couple of minds who would excel at this kind of wordplay. ( Not that I'm putting any pressure on you or anything, Lady T. ) And those are only the folks I know personally.

Stone is a much better candidate for Real Live Southerner than I, obviously. I always imagined a sausage patty on the biscuit. Apparently, that's not so. It's white sauce made from pan drippings, crumbled sausage added, served (over? in?) a biscuit? Is that the correct visual?

44,976. Thanks, Chad and hannah. And one for me: Joyce White's Brown Sugar. 44,977. By the way, if that figure is divided by the 6,000 odd current eGullet members, it works out to about 7 ookbooks apiece, one more than my sister-in-law owns. (I checked out her shelves on Thursday.)

I'm N and C too.! Welcome to eGullet and thanks for this intelligent post. How quickly we forget.

Well, it's a Chicago Burb thing too. I gave up counting them yesterday, there were so many.

Still being hammered out. I will let you know when I know. And ASAP.

I need these! Should you make them, Tell All.

Girls and boys, ladies and gents: Check this out: "The Name Game" Entries Be astounded at the cleverness of your fellow eGulls. Laugh your hocks off. And lick your pencil--or mouse! This round of the Smackdown is a hoot and a half. It is also a blast to write.

Wha hoo! Is the lovely Batgrrl coming too? HH and I will be attending. Last I checked our back set was to contain Lady T and the Mod with the Mostest.

Welcome to eGullet and to the Heartland Forum, Zac.

Dear Matthew: The brisket's fine. Really. But if you are doubtful now, you'll avoid cooking it later. And a brisket is a terrible thing to waste. Go with G's grill suggestion. and smoke a brisket along with the duck. Yum.

Gee, Marlene, what a judge of character you are! My bosom's heaving --with laughter. (Admit I was right. It was fun!)

Vermouth up my nose!

Weapons that never fail: Heaving bosom, downcast eyes. (Hmm...a foeman worthy of my steel! ) Write me a story, Madame! (See Marlene, it's easy. You already have.) Please wave the vinaigrette under my nose. Georgette Heyer fans everywhere know I'm not talking salad dressing.

Do it! (And let's choose trembling lower lips at a hundred yards and see who wins. )

Now, now Canadian Sistergirl! Don't pout. Enter. Here. Now. Maybe the august panel of Smackdown Judges are weighted in the favour of pretty blondes who live in the Toronto 'burbs and have great kitchens.