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Recipe: Toni's Cake
Dec. 24th, 2018 09:05 pmThis was, in fact, the first recipe I ever posted to this journal, and I'm hereby re-posting it with internationalised measurements. It is the Ancestral Christmas Food of my people, or at least, my family and my cousins on the maternal side. It is called Toni's Cake because the recipe came to us from Toni. It came to her from someone else, and so on and so forth.
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Looking at it, I suspect the ur-recipe of being a 'recipe on the back of a product package', at some point, or possibly a magazine recipe. I also suspect its origin isn't Australian, because the base measurement, 50 Marie Biscuits, is pretty illogical - it's 1 2/3 of a pack of Marie Biscuits. If you were designing it from scratch you'd surely use a standard pack size. (Unless Marie biscuit packs have got bigger over time? Possible but unlikely.) My suspicion is that American Graham Crackers were involved, because if it was Rich Tea biscuits originally, there'd be no need to swap in Marie - Rich Teas are readily available in Australia. The 1 and 1/4 cup measurement for sugar is about a single Imperial cup, though, and 250grams isn't a normal butter package size in the US, so maybe it's UK in origin.
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( What you need and what you do with it )
Looking at it, I suspect the ur-recipe of being a 'recipe on the back of a product package', at some point, or possibly a magazine recipe. I also suspect its origin isn't Australian, because the base measurement, 50 Marie Biscuits, is pretty illogical - it's 1 2/3 of a pack of Marie Biscuits. If you were designing it from scratch you'd surely use a standard pack size. (Unless Marie biscuit packs have got bigger over time? Possible but unlikely.) My suspicion is that American Graham Crackers were involved, because if it was Rich Tea biscuits originally, there'd be no need to swap in Marie - Rich Teas are readily available in Australia. The 1 and 1/4 cup measurement for sugar is about a single Imperial cup, though, and 250grams isn't a normal butter package size in the US, so maybe it's UK in origin.