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Subject: Re: correction to BLACK FORREST CAKE
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Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 10:59:06 EST
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>           B L A C K    F O R E S T    C A K E   (From Jenny Weber)
>           ===================================
>
>   1 favorite Chocolate cake recipie or boxed mix.
>   1 21oz can of cherry pie filling
     
  I'll take your word for it that this is a delicious cake; I hope you
enjoy it often, and I will not say a word against it.  But it is **NOT**
repeat NOT a "Black Forest Cherry Cake".  If you invited me to your dining
table with a promise of a black forest cherry cake and then served me this,
I might or might not remain on good terms with you, but I would never again
believe a word you said about food.
     
  A Black Forest Cherry Cake (= Schwartzwalder Kirschtorte) is a German
classic; three layers of rich but light chocolate cake moistened with
kirsch syrup, filled and frosted with rich whipped cream, with cherries
between the layers, and thickly garnished with chocolate curls.  The
best recipe I know is two pages of fine print in the recipe booklet of the
Time-Life Germany cookbook - one of these dull winter afternoons when I've
nothing else to do I'll try to type it in and post it.
     
  Your recipe is certainly much easier to make and it no doubt produces a
good cake, but please call it Mom's chocolate cherry cake or Betty Crockers
cherry cake or any name you please that does not already have a very specific
meaning.
  (Sorry to sound like an old grouch but I've been burned in restaurants
that offered one thing on the menu & served something very different,
and I hate to see the practice spread to people who should know better)
     
                                         --Carolyn J. Clark
     
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