A question for you Southerners...

Have you ever heard of an Amalgamation Cake? It has coconut, raisins and nuts in it. My mother's family would have an Amalgamation cake and a Lane cake at every family reunion, but the Amalgamation cake recipe didn't get handed down. I would love to have a family recipe instead of taking something off the internet.

TC

I'm in the middle of Georgia and have never heard of that. I'll ask my mom or grandmother.

WOW...Haven't heard that cake mentioned sense I was knee high to a grasshopper.I remember my Grandma making those,She is from Quitman Georgia.Never was very fond of it.If she was still with us I'm sure she would share.Maybe Phillip will have some luck for you. Sorry TC.

There are several recipes at Cooks.com - here is the site:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,amalgamation_cake,FF.html


Tater

Thanks Tater. I knew I could get a recipe off the WWW, but looking at the 8 cake recipes from the site provided shows that all 8 are completely different than the next, with no rating. So I don't know which one to pick.

This much I remember...the cake was more or less a plain white cake. It's the filling and frosting that made the cake. That's where all the goodies were; pecans, raisins, and coconut.

My mother's family used to serve this as a spiffed up version of a coconut cake.

TC

Seems the solution is simple: make and eat each of the eight!

Glen Schumann wrote:Seems the solution is simple: make and eat each of the eight!

Only if you come help me.

TC

That would have been my suggestion. Try them all. They're probably all very good.

Tater

The DW suggested I try to get hold of shirt-tail relation to see if the recipe got handed down in a different direction.

I sure appreciate the input though.

TC

We need to all get together at a rally and help TC sample all 8 recipes.Jim

Jim&Dianne73 wrote:We need to all get together at a rally and help TC sample all 8 recipes.Jim

Now THAT'S an idea!!

TC