When my brother and I still lived at home…Saturday was the day when my mother and I cleaned the house, my brother cut the grass and ….my father did the weekly bills….. When all the jobs were done…my mother baked a “Frangipani”….It is a simple cake with fruit on top..which was baked in the oven, and while it baked most of the fruit sank to the bottom…This cake can be made with any kind of fruit…our favorite was fresh plums…cut into halves and the stone removed. I had the job to set our table in the kitchen by a big window….and at 4 o’clock we all sat down for Coffee and Cake… This is the time we shared what had happened at school and my parents shared what was going on at their jobs…
My mother worked as a Nurses Aid at the Shriner’s Children Hopspital….My father workded at the 1st National Bank/California….
When my brother and I were in Highschool…my brother went to St.Viany High School and I went to Our Lady of Loretto Highschool….We all had experiences to share…since we were Immigrants…and were sponsored by the National Catholic Welfare Organization…
Here is the Frangipani or Zwetschken Kuchen recipe!
The recipe is very simple….
Zwetschken Kuchen
Austrian Plum Cake
1 pkg Duncan Hines, Butter Golden cake mix
1/2 cup oat meal – 1 min. quick cooking
1/4 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar – to sprinkle on to the plums
Cinnamon
fresh plums – halved and seeded
Wash and seed plums.
Prepare batter as directed on box.
Add oat meal and flour.
Prepare baking pan -butter and dust with flour.
Pour batter into pan. (Pyrex)
Sprinkle half of the sugar on top of batter.
Sprinkle some cinnamon over the sugar.
Lay plum halves – cut side up – on top of the sugar and cinnamon.
Sprinkle the rest of the sugar on top of the plums.
Bake at 350 F until nicely browned and tester comes out clean.
Serve with Ice Cream….. Whipping Cream…. or just Powdered Sugar!
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Maria Reisz Springer
Maja’s Viennese Kitchen
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Maria, did you know that a frangipani is also a flowering shrub or small tree? Google it. I am pretty sure that they grew in South Florida.Sue
Sue….I did not know that Frangipani is a blowering shrub….I will have to google it to see what it looks like…I am curious why a pastry and a flower have the same name…there needs to be a histor y about this…I will have to find out …I am so curious!!! Thank you for sending me this reply to my blog story!
Hugs to you….
Maria