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As we of the Gregorian Calendar end our fast and our brothers and sisters of the Julian Calendar prepare to end theirs, and to celebrate the recent return of our brother and friend, Anton, I present Anton's Chocolate Cake - to be a suitable dessert after "Two Guys Swedish/Irish (Vegetarian or Otherwise) Chili"!
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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This is a recipe that our dear friend and brother, Anton, gifted to me as a reward for coming up with a website link for him some years ago. It's an incredible dessert ... enjoy Anton's Chocolate Cake FOR THE CAKE
125 g (4 oz) butter
225 g (8 oz) dark soft brown sugar
2 eggs
142 ml (1/4 pint) soured cream
175 g (6 oz) plain flour
5 ml (1 tsp) baking powder
2.5 ml bicarbonate of soda
50 g (2 oz) Cadbury Bournville cocoa
FOR THE FILLING
40 ml (2 Tbs) Cadbury Bournville cocoa
125 g (4 oz) butter
150 g (5 oz) icing sugar, sieved
Vanilla essence
FOR THE FROSTING
200 g bar of Cadbury Bournville chocolate
40 ml (2 Tbs) Cadbury Bournville cocoa
142 ml (1/4 pint) double cream
Or you could use your favourite chocolate/cocoa instead.
Two 20 cm (8-inch), shallow cake tins, greased and base-lined
For the cake, cream together the butter and sugar until the mixture is light in colour anti texture. Gradually beat in the eggs, and then the soured cream (the mixture looks curdled at this stage). Sieve together the dry ingredients and fold them into the mixture. Divide the mixture equally between the tins. Bake at Gas Mark 5/190?C:/375?F for 30 ? 35 minutes, until cooked. Turn out on to a wire tray to cool.
Make the filling by mixing the cocoa with 40 ml (2 Tbs) of boiling water to a smooth paste, allow to cool. Beat together the butter, sieved icing sugar and essence, until light and fluffy. Beat in the cocoa. Slice the cake in half and then sandwich the halves together with the filling.
For the frosting, melt the chocolate carefully. Make the cocoa into a paste with water as before and mix with the chocolate. Slowly whisk the cream into the chocolate until smooth and thickened. Spread the frosting evenly over the cake with a palette knife.
Serve in slices, with whipped cream or ice-cream. If possible warm each slice in a microwave or oven, if you have made the cake in advance; it can also be served cold but is definitely more interesting hot, with the contrast of ice cream.
USE LOTS OF WHIPPED CREAM. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Ohh...cheers for that!
I haven't made that recipe in years, seeing as I lost it!
Something nice to do in this cold January.
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Ain't Byzcath wonderful - you now have your favourite Choccie cake recipe back 
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Of chocolate cakes, my daughter made - well had a neighbor make them - spicy chocolate cupcakes for her boyfriends birthday party. Must be a New Orleans thing  since he is from there. Anyway you had cinnamon and chipolti peppers in adobe sauce to the mix. They had an awesome smell, I only took a tiny taste, as I can not take the heat in food. I have to say they were really good! The neighbor is from New Orleans too, a Katrina transplant also. She had never had them either, but now she totally loves them. Who knew!
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Note - this is an old thread, resurrected seasonally, to assist with recipe planning for the Fasts. While it's open to new posts, be aware of the dates on older posts before replying to them and expecting a response - which you my not get, because the individual doesn't any longer post here.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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When my vegan daughter got married she could find no one to make a wedding cake (nothing too fancy) that didn't use eggs or dairy. She eventually found an upper middle aged accounting professor (me) who was willing to try. I made about a million (maybe a few less) and ate about 999,999 of them to test them. I used this simple recipe.
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Grease a 9x12-inch cake pan with shortening.
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Measure ingredients directly into the baking pan:
3 c. cake flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. cocoa
Make three holes in dry ingredients and place:
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 tsp. vanilla
2/3 cup oil
Pour 2 cups water or milk over all, stir with fork, making sure to get all the corners mixed, too.
Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes or until cake tests done.
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It turned out really well. Then we had to make a simple frosting with soy milk, powdered sugar and vanilla. Of course her even more vegan husband-to-be did not eat regular sugar, something about dried bones used in the production, so I had to make my own powdered sugar in the blender.
They are still married and still vegan.
I don't know a lot about Eastern Christian fasting except to get the idea that it apparently has more regulations and interpretations than an Army supply manual but I think if you don't use olive oil about anybody should be able to eat this cake. (I recognize I could be completely wrong here.)
By the way, there are about a million versions of this recipe on the Internet.
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Jim, Thanks for the contribution, which I will be passing on to my vegetarian/almost-vegan son and his almost-vegetarian girl friend . It would not likely survive my own poor cooking skills (which generally run to chili and spaghetti sauce and the like), but I'll get to have it at their house Many years, Neil
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Neil
I can give you some advice for living with vegans based on my own experience of the last 15 years. Develop a taste for Indian food. They can always find something to eat on the menu and the other dishes are pretty good.
Any time they suggest that you eat at there house and the menu has any thing that normally would have cheese in it offer to pay to eat out. The ways they try of imitate cheese can be really frightening.
Find out about wheat meat (baked wheat glutton). If you season it, bread it and deep fat fry it tastes like anything you by in roadside restaurant in the South.
The frightening part is that if you go along with them, because of course they will not go along with you, you can actually start to like vegan cooking. Then, of course, the fasting thing is all mixed up.
Since the purpose of a fast is to impose a discipline that takes us out of our normal routine and makes us more aware of our obligations to refrain from sin and reform ourselves, eating as a vegan you get none of the benefits of the fast. So when Lent arrives I always ask her if, as a vegan, she is going to keep Lent does that mean she has to eat meat, milk and eggs.
Of course I am ready for the response. "OH Dad!"
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I eat vegan quite often, and was a vegan for quite sometime, which really is more of a default when I don't eat meat, since I shouldn't eat dairy. I find that vegan food often is much better tasting than a lot of non vegan food. The key is to learn to cook vegetable dishes (and of course learn to use spices) and not to try to create meat/cheese substitutes. While I like sietan, I eat it for what it is, and don't pretend it's meat. And as was stated above, stay away from vegan cheeses, while I'll admit I've had a couple that were really good, in general, they have all been horrible--tofutti, "cream cheese" is okay...it's better than the low fat cream cheese.
I think in America especially people tend too much toward trying to recreate the food they are used to eating. That's not to say you can't, I've had some vegan versions of things that are better than the dairy version, but it all depends....it's also best if the person coming up with the recipe is not vegan, because they actually remember what the original item tastes like.
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I have made a reappearance! Actually, tell the truth, I am always here just that I tend to lurk. I never have anything useful to say and I leave it to others to make wiser comments. I shall try Jim's recipe with great anticipation!
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My husband is a renal dialysis patient and often he will see something on a cooking show, and thinks he might like to try it. Which is really a 'big' thing cuz' he is a meat and potato guy. Then, I have to decipher it, sadly, I find so much of it he can't eat - such as beans - because of their different levels of phosphorous and such.  But, at least he was willing!
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Anton, my friend and brother, So good to see you, making your annual appearance (LOL, you put his cake recipe on-line, brings him out every time ) Hope the studies are going well and that you're well. Miss your contributions. Many years, Neil
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any recipe that says- eat with lots of whipped cream- gets my vote
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The last post in here was the end of November 2010. Fast sure comes fast these days
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