Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Cliff Clavin moment Number 1: German Chocolate Cake

Here's something I didn't know. German chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany. It came from a recipe from a homemaker in Dallas in 1957 that used German's Chocolate, which was developed by Sam German, an Englishman, in 1852 for Baker's Chocolate Company. All this time, I thought it was done with rich Bavarian chocolate, created by those industrious and meticulous Germans. Not so, but still tantalizingly delicious.

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