Name: Dr. George Washington Carver’s Metropolitan Cake with Peanuts
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Finely chopped roasted and salted peanuts for sprinkling (optional); 1 cup finely chopped roasted and salted peanuts; 2 eggs; 3 tablespoons cornstarch; ½ cup milk; 2 cups sugar; 3 cups milk; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 teaspoons lemon or vanilla extract; 1 tablespoon butter; 2 cups finely chopped roasted and salted peanuts; 1½ cups (3 sticks) butter, softened; 1 cup sugar; 2½ cups well-sifted all purpose flour

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Serves
8 to 10

Difficulty
Medium

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Southern Cakes

By Nancie McDermott

Published 2007

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History books tell us that Dr. Carver was a brilliant research scientist and a dedicated teacher. From Catherine Quick Tillery’s extraordinary book The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama’s Renowned Tuskegee Institute, I learned that recipes played a role in his economic development efforts on behalf of farmers in Macon County, Alabama, in the 1920s. To encoura

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