Snow Cake

It has been way too long since I posted a recipe from the recipe box of our Grandmother Helen Pecar, but today I was inspired by our cousin Virginia Cenkner to do so. I looked through Grandma's box and found a wintery day recipe fit for this cold New Year's Eve morning. I will print the exact wording, as written by her hand, on the recipe card from her box.

Snow Cake
Moderate oven. 45 Minutes

1/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 egg whites
1/2 cup milk
1 2/3 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter, add sugar and vanilla, beat egg whites to a stiff froth and add. Sift flour and baking powder together and add in with milk.

That's it! The recipe card does not indicate the size of pan to use or the oven temperature. I would assume 350 degrees and with the amount of flour, maybe 9 x 9 or bundt pan, greased and floured. Be sure to post your comments if you try this!



Happy New Year!

Judy Crockett

A Night Blooming Cereus

I had to post this conversation filled with much history over the Night Blooming Cereus plant we all grew up with and remember:

My night blooming cereus is going to bloom!!!

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• You, Theresa Pecar-Moore, Joseph C. Pecar, Nancy Alden Pecar and 15 others like this.
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  Joseph C. Pecar Are you cereus?

  July 17 at 7:51pm · Unlike · 3
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  Kathy Lightbody It's a cutting from my dad's plant...it's like 50 years old!!

  July 17 at 9:55pm · Unlike · 2
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  Joseph C. Pecar 50 years old? Cereusly? That's as old as my sister!

  July 17 at 9:59pm · Unlike · 3
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  Candi Holliday Braun Thats awesome. :-)

  July 17 at 10:20pm · Like
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  Diane Pecar Kathy, my mom has one from Grandma Pecar. I wonder if your Dad's plant came from her house too.

  July 17 at 11:52pm · Unlike · 1
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  Kathy Lightbody Yes, Diane Pecar for sure! 50 years old was a conservative guesstimate :) Same plant, for sure

  July 18 at 12:00am · Unlike · 2
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  Chelle Davis Have you heard the story about Mom, Dad Joseph Pecar. aunt Carol and Uncle Jim James W Pecar?? They took it with them in Uncle Jim's RV when they were on the road" and they told and showed a bunch of people / strangers... ;). Pretty cool. I have a piece of it too. Cereus! ;).

  July 18 at 6:31am · Like · 1
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  Tom Pecar That " Mother" plant was not doing well so I brought it home. last bloom we had was fantasti,,, I don't remeber how many flowers but it was a lot

  July 18 at 7:54am · Unlike · 1
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  Margaret Pecar Fallone ceriously?

  July 18 at 9:28am · Like
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  Margaret Pecar Fallone oh I should have looked at all the previous comments before adding my own - duh - well, great Pecar minds think alike, I guess! We have a photo somewhere taken in the 50's where Daddy's plant had multiple blooms - have you ever seen that?

  July 18 at 9:30am · Like
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  Margaret Pecar Fallone It's way over 50, Kathy - I was about 5 when his had a major bloom - and I, as you know, am also well over 50! :-(

  July 18 at 9:31am · Like · 1
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  Tom Pecar I got it looking all pretty again. all these big blooms, the news did a story ouhs and ahhs, but not one mention ( or Plug ) for the shop

  July 18 at 9:34am · Like
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  Tom Pecar thats fine I is retired

  July 18 at 9:34am · Like
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  Tom Pecar WAY WAY WAY over 50 it is at least as old as Maggie, at LEAST, just sayin'

  July 18 at 9:35am · Like
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  Margaret Pecar Fallone Tommy I don't know how to make a'sticking out your tongue" icon - but I am THINKING it! xoxo

  July 18 at 9:37am · Like
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  Tom Pecar What???

  July 18 at 9:38am · Like
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  Margaret Pecar Fallone ;-)Tommy I think you were there when that plant bloomed in the mid-50's -

  July 18 at 9:59am · Like
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  Tom Pecar yeep

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  Kathy Lightbody :P for Margaret Pecar Fallone :)

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  Craig Moore Shirley you can't be cereus. Yes I am cereus, and stop calling me Shirley.

  17 hrs · Like · 1
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  Kathy Lightbody ....the sh*t's really gonna hit the fan, now. Roger, roger. Over, Under.

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  Diane Pecar So I copied the picture of the Cereus and some of the "cousin conversation" and sent it by email to Aunt Ethel, who does not have a Facebook account. Here is the reply she just sent, which rounds out the story of how old the original cereus really is: " I sure enjoyed the story of the Midnight Cereus among all the remarks.
  Thanks for sending it. I am going to add to the discussion---
  It's a heck of a lot older than 50 years as some think.
  Kathy's dad would remember as I do---we were kids on a visit to KY--
  WE stayed at our Grandma's house? connected to a store--connected
  to a gas station--one pump--I think it was GULF. Some came with horses
  and tied them up once in a while a car-MOdel A would pull up for gas.
  Uncle Julian and Grandma ran the store, etc.
  
  There was a neighbor down the road who had this plant--and one night
  when we were there, it started to bloom. WE all went to see it and they
  had it on a porch and would shine a flashlite on it so we could see it.
  My Mom got a slip from it and brought it to Detroit. I would guess this
  was in the 1930's.
  
  You might want to put this on facebook so everyone hears the story.
  A. E. [Joes's 50 year old sister]"