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From: Kim
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 8:16 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Subject: Chocolate Cake at the Wegmans Bakery
Hi Phaed,
I cannot thank you enough for this website. I have found so many lost recipes and found some new recipes that are now my favorites.
I have a request for you and your faithful readers. I live in Rochester NY and shop regularly at the Wegman’s grocery store.
In their bakery they serve the most wonderful chocolate cake topped by the best frosting I have ever tasted.
It is a layer cake that comes in two sizes, large and small. The name of the cake is Wegman’s Ultimate Chocolate Cake.
This is a cake that will have you sneaking out of bed in the middle of the night just for another taste.
I am hoping that you or some kind reader will be able to provide a good copycat recipe for the frosting.
It is rich and chocolaty and anyone who shops at the Wegman’s bakery will know just the cake I am referring to.
Incidentally, how on earth did you dream up this wonderful website? How ever you did it, well it is just pure genius.
Many Thanks,
Kim R
Hi Kim,
Thanks for the kind words. “Uncle Phaedrus” started as a trivia Q&A message board on a local BBS back in the 1990s.
When the Internet came to town, I tried to transfer the idea to the web, with little success. Then, in about 1999,
I got a few food questions and the owner of a popular recipe site placed a link to Uncle Phaedrus on her website.
As a result, I began getting more and more food and recipe requests, and the recipe theme soon took over.
I found looking for lost recipes to be quite challenging and had no complaints about the change in theme.
I still get an occasional non-recipe question and am pleased to get them.
I’m sure you know how Wegman’s “Ultimate Chocolate Cake” came about. They had a contest among Wegman’s employees to see
who could make the best chocolate cake. The winner was Libby McGinley with her “Deep, Dark Chocolate Cake”. With Libby’s
recipe as a starting point, Wegman’s bakers then developed their recipe for “Ultimate Chocolate Cake”. They didn’t just
use her recipe, but they used her cake as a model to develop a dark, moist, rich chocolate cake. The story is here:
Wegman's.com
Wegman’s has never given out a recipe for a home version of their cake, nor is Libby’s original recipe available.
I had no success finding anything particular about the frosting recipe. No copycats.
I did find a couple of recipes called “ultimate chocolate cake”, that may be similar. See:
Baking.about.com
food.com
Phaed
From: Karen
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:45 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Subject: Recipes Search
I am looking for a couple of different recipes that I haven’t found any clue as how to make:
Full Moon BBQ in Birmingham Alabama has “Chow Chow” that is out of this world.
If you know of anything or anyone having a clue as to how to prepare the recipes I would be greatly appreciative.
Thank you,
Karen
Hello Karen,
Be very careful in searching for this recipe on the Internet. Every site I found that claimed to have this recipe turned out to be a malware site.
Lots of people love the chow-chow at Full Moon BBQ. The recipe, like most of Full Moon BBQ’s recipes, is a secret. It’s not available.
You can buy their chow-chow in several stores in Alabama. They don’t say that they sell it over the Internet, but if you call them, they might ship you some.
Their website is: Full Moon BBQ
I can’t give you a clue about a similar chow-chow recipe. I didn’t find any complete recipes that claimed to taste similar,
and I have never tasted Full Moon BBQ chow-chow, so I cannot recommend a recipe.
Perhaps a reader will be able to help.
Phaed
From: Karen
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:45 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Subject: Recipes Search
I am looking for a couple of different recipes that I haven’t found any clue as how to make:
Catfish King in Birmingham Alabama in the 1960’s had “Apple Fritters” that were coated in powdered sugar.
If you know of anything or anyone having a clue as to how to prepare the recipes I would be greatly appreciative.
Thank you,
Karen
Hi Karen,
I cannot find anything about Catfish King’s apple fritters except a few nostalgic mentions on message boards.
I do not expect that the recipe is available. I’ll post the request on my site. If these were made from scratch
at the Catfish King stores, maybe a former employee will read the request and be able to help.
However, my experience with restaurant chains is that these were probably pre-made at a central location or
by a vendor, and then shipped frozen to the local Catfish Kings.
If so, it would be unlikely to find a recipe. I can’t remember when Catfish King went out of business,
but if it was before the Internet, then there’s less hope of finding a copycat recipe.
Phaed
From: Karen
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:45 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Subject: Recipes Search
I am looking for a couple of different recipes that I haven’t found any clue as how to make:
Kmart’s Deli in the 1990’s had an “Apple Dumpling” with a creamy sauce that was delicious.
If you know of anything or anyone having a clue as to how to prepare the recipes I would be greatly appreciative.
Thank you,
Karen
Hello Karen,
There are around a dozen requests for this recipe on message boards around the Internet. No one has the actual recipe.
These may have been a pre-made, frozen product that was made by a vendor.
Before Kmart was Kmart, it was Kresge’s, a “dime store” that was very similar to Woolworth’s.
Woolworth’s lunch counters also had an apple dumpling that I’m told was very similar to Kresge’s.
I have recipes similar to the Woolworth recipe here:
Woolworth's Apple Dumplings
For other apple dumpling recipes that have been proffered as being similar to the Kmart product, see these sites:
Recipelink 1
apple pie crisp dumplings
taste of home
Recipelink 2
Phaed
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