Bake_from_Scratch_November-December_2019

63 bake from scratch

Also known as burnt Leather Cake, burnt sugar cake has been a golden classic since

the early 1900s and was particularly beloved by the original American gourmand,

James Beard, whose mother made a famed family version. In fact, he included a

recipe for it in his seminal 1972 James Beard’s American Cookery. White sugar is cooked

in a dry skillet until it liquefi es and “burns” or caramelizes and then boiling water is

poured in to create a sputtering amber syrup. Added directly to the cake layers, the

burnt syrup has a purer fl avor than the cream- and butter-fi lled caramels of today

and puts the focus on the golden sugar fl avor.

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Burnt Sugar Cake