Not the early sixties… that book has the stylized maple leaf from the 1965 flag.
I was going by an article that might have some errors. But, the “interesting” thing for me is that German in German Chocolate Cake is the last name of a person, not the country.
That is right, and the German wikipedia does not include an entry for German Chocolate Cake. My guess is that it is unknown here, as you cannot beat the Sachertorte anyway.
The French wikipedia lists it correctly as “gâteau au chocolat German”, the Italian wikipedia writes about the “German chocolate cake”, but both the Spanish and the Catalan entries are wrong: “pastel alemán” and “pastís alemany”, although they say in the text that it is not German, but US-American.
The other seven languages have alphabets I cannot read, no idea what they say.
I grew up with mom making german chocolate cake- my brother always asked for it for his birthday. When I was young, you could still get that brand
In the same vein, the Polaroid Land camera was named after its inventor Edwin Land, not to indicate it wasn’t suitable for use elsewhere necessarily!
In Santa Barbara we have the Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden, named of course after Alice Keck Park who donated the land.
Park Park? Missed opportunity if you ask me.
I’ve always wondered about that!
Sydney University’s museum is called the Chau Chak Wing museum. I live in hope they’ll need to open an annex to it, called …
There’s a brand of baking chocolate that comes in different varieties. One of them is called German’s chocolate, although I have no idea if that’s at all the same as what your mother used.
It’s basically sweet chocolate that’s not milk chocolate. Why that might work better than unsweetened chocolate that you just add sugar to the recipe, I don’t know. Because it doesn’t melt as easily as milk chocolate it’s not dissimilar to hiking or ration chocolate bars.
P.S. fond as I usually am of all things chocolate, German Chocolate Cake is for me ruined by the inclusion of coconut. What a disappointment when I first tried some.
That is the brand. I did a cursory search and didn’t get anything, so I assumed they had been absorbed by someone else
(I once made brownies with German chocolate. They were disappointing)
Yeah, the coconut and pecan frosting is really what makes it a German chocolate cake. Otherwise, it would just be cake
I wouldn’t say ruined. But it’d definitely be better without the coconut.
Similarly, Baker’s Chocolate is now a brand name for baking chocolate.
However, the brand name has nothing to do with bakers or baking. The name instead comes from the original name of the company, the Baker Chocolate Company, later known as Walter Baker & Company.
The Baker Chocolate Company was founded in 1780 by James Baker and was the first company to produce chocolate in the USA. Before it was bought by Kraft and turned into a brand name, they made all types of chocolate, not just baking chocolate.
As an aside, my ex-wife’s uncle worked at the Walter Baker & Company factory in Dorchester, Massachusetts until the company relocated to Delaware in 1965. The uncle lived at home with his mother and couldn’t conceive of the idea of relocating and leaving his mother behind so he lost his job when they left, which he seemed to regret for the rest of his life.
(Send Lumpy’s and Chronos’ coconut-sullied slices my way, s’il vous plait)
Instead of chocolate, the Bakers should have made bullion cubes, to correspond with Fleischmann’s Yeast.
In the early 1900s it was legal to mail young children Parcel Post if they met the 50 lb. weight limit. The child would be kept in the mail car the entire trip.
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/grangeville-girl-was-mailed-to-her-grandmother/277-61ddd389-ae6e-4cf3-ae1c-0f918d387be7?fbclid=IwAR0y3lK-zNci5vpWYic5_LFPKmVBgt3dGvPlU9jxCHcjSyWcVXC5O2gAmNo
That applies to almost everything.
We used to live near an area (and former town) whose name ended in “Park” (after a famous nearby park). It has a park. The word is attached to the area name. So it ends with a double “Park”. When we went there we parked in the — Park Park parking lot.
The one they paved paradise to put in?
Not nearly so much as the time my daughter and her friend used hot cocoa mix instead of cocoa powder - they were “tannies” 