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Why are foodways important?

Foodways is the study of what people eat and why. Why we procure, prepare and serve the food we do has cultural, sociological, geographical, financial and political influences.

 

 

Why is recognition of diverse foodways valuable?

Preserving our past and present for the future by research, documentation and oral histories. It is culinary anthropology on the hoof, paw, root and leaf.

 

 

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Contestant, Illinois State Fair, 2018

Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

FAMILY HEIRLOOM RECIPES

Picnics and Family Reunions

Illinois State Fair
August 10, 2018

 

 

Contestant

 

Prune Cake
Barbara (Luchtefeld) Hopgood, Sherman, Illinois

 

MY PARENTS WERE MARRIED IN 1939 AND EVERY BIRTHDAY FROM FEB. 6, 1940 ON MY MOM MADE DAD A PRUNE CAKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY UNTIL HIS PASSING IN 1999 AT 93. I’M SURE SHE GOT THE RECIPE FROM HIS MOTHER. THE RECIPE CARD I FOUND WHICH MOM HAD WRITTEN LATER ON ONLY GIVES THE INGREDIENTS BUT I REMEMBER HELPING HER MAKE IT AS A CHILD. ON MY DAD’S 100 YEAR BIRTHDAY ALL 4 OF US SIBLINGS LIVING IN DIFFERENT AREAS MADE THE PRUNE CAKE NOT KNOWING WHAT EACH DID UNTIL WE TALKED LATER THAT EVENING. THE PLATE I HAVE IT ON WAS THE ORIGINAL CAKE PLATE MOM USED EVERY YEAR ONLY FOR THAT CAKE.

 

Contestant

 

Prune Cake
Barbara (Luchtefeld) Hopgood, Sherman, Illinois

 

 

cream together
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs

 

add after shifting
2 1/2 cup flour
1 tea. baking powder
1 tea. cloves
1 tea. cinnamon
1 tea. allspice
1 tea. soda
1 cup sour milk

 

after combined add
1 cup prunes (cooked)
1 tea. vanilla

 

pour in 9 inch cake pans and bake at 350 degrees for 35 min till tooth pick comes out clean, cool 20 min in pan than on cake rack ice with

 

chocolate icing
1 lb. confectioners sugar
1/4 cup + 1 tbsp milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 stick softened butter
1 tbsp cocoa

 

mix all together