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----- Original Message -----
From: Sandra
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: El Castillo Real
Good afternoon Uncle Phaedrus,
I am looking for recipes associated with the restaurant El Castillo Real. This restaurant
was first located at the traffic circle in Long Beach California during the mid to late 1980's.
It then relocated to Lakewood California but closed shortly thereafter. I remember eating
there every Friday night with my parents - fond memories. The one recipe I am most interested
in is their enchilada sauce. I remember it having a smooth, almost creamy consistency and not
as red as other enchilada sauces. This was a great family restaurant and their mexican food
was the absolute best around. Would love to honor it by preparing their long lost recipes.
Thanks!
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Sandra
Hi Sandra,
Wish I could help, but I could not find any recipes from El Castillo Real, just a few mentions
of it on message boards. There appears to have been a discussion of El Castillo Real on the
Chowhound website for quite a while, and no one was able to locate any recipes or copycats.
That's a pretty good sign that it's a lost cause. Sorry.
Phaed
----- Original Message -----
From: Tamar
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:20 PM
Subject: seeking recipe from Silber's Bakery in Baltimore (now defunct)
Dear Uncle Phaedrus,
In the early 70's, my mother would buy fantastic pastries from Silber's - like a sour cream
twist with a hint of cream cheese in it. I can't find any recipes from Silber's anywhere on
the web - surely you can help?
Thanks
Tamar
Hi Tamar,
It's very unlikely that you'll find any of the commercial recipes that a bakery like Silber's
actually used. I found none at all on the Internet. That just leaves copycat recipes. While a
lot of people have fond memories of Silber's, apparently few people have tried to duplicate
their recipes. There are a few on these sites:
Ribbon Cake like Silber's
English Muffin Bread
Shortbread with Chocolate Tops
Berger Cookies(Not Silber's)
No luck with their peach cake, rye bread, sugar cookies, cinnamon twists, sour cream twists,
colonial coffee cake, or butter custard pie.
Phaed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura"
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:29 PM
Subject: recipe request
> Hi Phaedrus,
> I'm pretty good at searches and this has stumped me. When I was a child,
> there was a grocery store in Newport Beach, California called Richard's
> Market. (an upscale grocery store). Their bakery made something called
> "Scrumpets" which were a combination of crumpets and scones (round and
> flaky). They were the most amazing pastries. I can close my eyes and
> still taste them. Richard's went out of business and I have no idea how
> to hunt it down. If you could find it, you'd be my hero forever....
> here's hoping!
> Laura
>
Hello Laura,
I can find only one mention of Richard's Market on the Internet, and it's a
memory, not a recipe or even a mention of scrumpets. Searching for scrumpet
recipes, I found the one below and one here:
chocolate
peanut butter scrumpets
Sorry, These are all that I could find.
Phaed
Bacon and Cheese Scrumpets
ingredients for the recipe
2 cup flour all purpose, sifted
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 slice Bacon, fried crisp and blotted
1/2 cup Extra sharp cheddar cheese diced
4 tablespoon Butter melted
1 Egg; plus 1 egg white
1/2 cup milk
recipe preparation
Place the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Crumble the bacon and add
and the cheese to the flour. Stir until blended. Beat together the butter,
and milk and, in a few swift strokes, stir them into the flour mixture. Han
the dough as little as possible. Scrape the dough out onto a generously flo
surface. With floured fingers, pat it into a circle approximately 1/3 inch
thick. Cut the dough into 4-inch rounds. Place a large frying pan on
medium-high heat and grease it very lightly. Add the scrumpets and immediate
turn the heat down to medium. Cook for 5 mins., then turn the scrumpets over
and lower the heat. Cook for another 5 mins. Continue until all are done. S
warm. Makes 8-10 scrumpets.
----- Original Message -----
From: julie
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:36 AM
Subject: Just Dessert's "Weekend Cake" (San Francisco in the 1980's-90's)
I have been searching for a recipe for the "weekend cake" from San Francisco's
"Just Desserts" stores that were around in the 1980's-90's. There are "weekend cakes"
on the internet generally, but they are not the same as the one sold by "Just Desserts."
It had the most luscious mocha chocolate icing/filling. It was my wedding cake and
I am still craving it. Hope you can help! Thanks much. Julie
Hi Julie,
A place like "Just Desserts" usually doesn't give away their recipes, so a recipe like that
isn't going to be available unless someone creates a "copycat recipe" for it. No one seems to
have done so for Just Desserts' Mocha Cream Cake, which they call their "Weekend Cake." That's
why neither you nor I could find anything.
Have you searched the web for "mocha cream cake recipes"? Perhaps you can find a recipe under
that name that is similar to the Just Desserts cake. I'm not familiar with the Just Desserts
product, so I wouldn't know a similar cake when I saw it. I did a brief search under that name,
but there were none that said anything about being similar to JD's cake.
Phaed
----- Original Message -----
From: Matrice
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:35 PM
Subject: Wing Basket's Fried Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings
Hello Uncle Phaedrus,
I’m a huge fan Wing Basket’s fried lemon pepper chicken wings located on Gallatin Road
in Madison Tn. Would you by any chance have a recipe?
Buying them every weekend gets kind of expensive.
Thanks,
Matrice
Hello Matrice,
Sorry, I had no success locating a copycat recipe for Wing Basket's lemon pepper chicken wings.
Didn't even find one that was called "similar". There are dozens of lemon pepper chicken wing
recipes on the web, but since I've never had the wing basket's wings, I can't tell which might
be similar. There are some recipes here:
Chitterlings.com
Phaed
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