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My husband had a birthday recently and a request for a specific cake. He’s not really much of a cake person and would have probably preferred pie but this is what he said.

He wanted a yellow cake with strawberry frosting. Not fakey strawberry frosting and not a cake mix (which I can’t use anyway) but real strawberry flavor frosting.

Not really finding what I wanted online or in my newer cookbooks I turned to my vintage cookbook for strawberry frosting and found a very simple worthy recipe.

For the cake I turned to America’s Test Kitchen cookbook for a good recipe that had been perfected. The cake was called simply a butter cake but since that’s what yellow cake is, with the complete egg (instead of only egg whites), I went with it.

Picture and recipe are below. Since the frosting recipe was kind of vague about how many strawberries I might have used a bit too man as the frosting didn’t stand in stiff peaks like I like. It’s still very yummy though and was deemed a success!

 

 

Strawberry Frosting

1/2 package of frozen strawberries

1/2 cup (or one stick) butter

1 pound powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

I  mixed the strawberries and butter in the mixer and then add the powdered sugar half a box at a time. Drizzled in the vanilla last and whipped it up with my wire beater attachment on high until I thought it looked good. It was enough to frost a 2 layer 9 inch cake.  I left the sides free so it wasn’t overly sweet.

So I have this recipe on my Vintage Homemaking site from an 1867 Godey’s Lady’s Book  and I’ve been tossing around whether to attempt to try it or not … so I did.

It’s for a hand cream (even though they are calling it cold cream) but truth be told I was actually going to make it to use on my face. I have very very dry skin on my face and I’m absolutely allergic to everything store bought…mostly.

You see women in the past had this big thing about how their hands looked. I can tell this from the enormous amount of ads in my vintage magazines advertising hand creams and the best way to do manicures. Even when they do show homemaking pictures the women always have impeccable hands with bright red nails.

So I made it just like the recipe, which is located here, states. I melted my beeswax…oh yes I used beeswax pellets that I had from a previous experiement, and sweet almond oil in a double boiler. Then mixed in my rosewater which I just purchased. After reading all the great reviews on Amazon I had to get some. So this is the brand rosewater I went for.

You can see the badly taken photgraphs below (I got a new camera for my birthday and I’m still learning how to use it).

The Ultra Finished Product is after whipping it a bit more and adding it to an empty jar. It’s kind of thick so it would make a great hand cream.