Family Recipes for Angel Food Cake and Yellow Cookies
August 21, 2009 by Cindy Aubihl
Growing up in a small farming community in Ohio, we did a lot of baking. Homemade breads, cakes, pies, and cookies were always a part of every celebration. I can’t remember a birthday, graduation, or holiday were Mom wasn’t in the kitchen feverishly preparing a special treat using someone’s “secret recipe”. Today, as a mother of four, I have continued the baking tradition in my own home.
Without a doubt, the two recipes that stand out as favorites with my children are my Great-Grandmother Bessie’s Angel Food Cake and Great Aunt Phyllis’s Yellow Cookies.
You see, Phyllis was Bessie’s daughter. Great-Grandma Bessie raised chickens and sold the eggs. Apparently she would use the eggs she didn’t sell to make angel food cake (which uses 12 egg whites) and then sell the cakes. Perhaps Phyllis, seeing all those egg yolks going to waste, tinkered in the kitchen to come up with her Yellow Cookies (which use 12 egg yolks). However it came to be, I am glad it did, because both are delicious.
Yellow Cookies (photo: Alex Lacqua)
Angel Food Cake (photo: Alex Lacqua)
Now that you know a little background on these family favorites, why not try them:
About the Author: Cindy Aubihl lives in New York City with her husband and four children.
Looks Great!