finished baking the Family Chocolate Pound cake. I am pleased with the result

[yellowdogintexas]

16. Followup: My friend loved the coconut cake, and Yep he never heard of boiled custard

Family Christmas get together has been moved to this coming Friday due to a couple of sick members and a whole family out of town over the Christmas weekend

Consequently that chocolate pound cake is now history. Mr YD can't stay out of it when we have it in the house. He also finished off whatever custard I did not drink myself. So NOW I have to bake another one!!

I was watching "It's A Southern Thing" a couple of days ago and the video theme was Southern Christmas. Here is a quote: "Of course there will be egg nog...unless you are in Mississippi, Tennessee or Kentucky where you will get boiled custard" It's true!!

Another KY/TN Christmas tradition is Jam Cake, usually made with blackberry jam. It is basically a spice cake with the jam added and sometimes frosted with a cooked caramel icing. We always made one of those, a German Chocolate, and a coconut cake every year. My grandmother always made a brazil nut devil's food cake which was a ton of work because back then you could not get shelled Brazil Nuts, so she cracked and ground those suckers herself. They were folded into the batter; she slathered it with 7 minute frosting