Recipe: Cheese tea

[conuly]

So today I made the recipe that's been sitting in my open tabs for well over a month now: Cheese tea. They say "cheese tea", it's more like a whipped cheesecake filling that you put on top of your tea.

I made several changes mostly because I mislaid the recipe I'd copied out and I didn't want to delay any longer, so I guesstimated all measurements. I also put this on hot tea (see: no delays) and decided to try it to start on the side so that if I didn't like the combo I wasn't stuck with it.

(And I didn't salt it, because I thought I should ease into this concept.)

Verdict: I like it! But... it's a lot of a lot, and next time I gotta make it in a smaller cup. I usually brew tea in my ginormous cup. This is just too much for a big cup of tea!

( Recipe )

Tomato Soup Cake

[mama_kestrel]

Yes, really. Apparently it's a Depression/ WWII era recipe. My daughter in law posted it on faceplant in July, asking me if I was willing to try it. I promptly bookmarked the video here. So tonight I pulled up the video, copied the ingredient list, and had at it.

The original recipe, which the demonstrator showed a brief image of, was a list of ingredients. No temperature, no mixing method, no nothing. That's pretty typical for older recipes, which assume one knows how to cook.

I did not do it the way the woman on the video (there has to be a less awkward construction for that) did. She piled everything in a bowl and took a mixer to it. I sifted the flower, leavening agents and spices together and set them aside. Then I creamed the butter and sugar, beat in the tomato soup, and stirred in the flour. The raisins were stirred in last. I baked it in a tube pan at 350 F (175 C) for 30 minutes. It rose more than I expected, and smells wonderful. You can't taste the tomato soup at all, though it has a definite reddish tint; for all intents and purposes, it's a spice cake. Next time I'll add an egg.

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp allspice (substitution for clove, which I didn't have)
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar (I used half brown and half white)
1 can tomato soup
1 cup raisins

ETA: Family consensus is that this would be better with a cream cheese frosting. I think it could also be baked in a loaf pan, and simply spread with cream cheese like banana bread.