Hans Craig Makes a Pound Cake

[electrolux137]

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Hans Craig, well known vacuum cleaner & "other-appliance" collector, makes a pound cake from scratch in his beautiful 1940s-1050s kitchen. See link below.

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7HfpZICRk

 

[gottahaveahoove]

WOW!!!!!! Now, THAT is a perfect mini meet!!!!

Hans!  A beautiful kitchen.... a great cooking demo... perfectly filmed/narrated.


  My late dad was from N Carolina... a very familiar/comforting accent to hear again.


  Great friendships.


  That,  boys and girls,  is HOW IT IS DONE.


  Thanks for SHARING that with us.


 John

 

[suckolux]

Well I wasn't sure what I was making for dessert for company today, but NOW I AM! Great video, nice to watch

 

[dysonman1]

I've had the pleasure of eating in Han's kitchen. He's a fabulous cook. I wonder if this was one of Betty Freezor's recipes? She had a local television cooking show that Hans used to watch religiously (like the Paula Deen of her day).

 

[vacbear58]

The thread from AW is on the link, Kevin is a regular poster on AW, especially when he changes out his vintage ranges each spring and fall



http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?60392_14~1

 

[williamr1248]

Hans Craig makes a pound cake

Hans,
It looked so good I had to go to the store and buy what I needed to make it.
How much PET milk do you use? I watched the video but could not tell for sure.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

My mother had a similar hand mixer too.

She made eggnogg with it.  It was kind of like an early immersion blender.


 Also,  nice idea w/ the waxed paper.


 John

 

[kenkart]

Re Pet milk

I use one small can and enough water to make a cup.

 

[williamr1248]

Han's Craig makes a pound cake

Han's

Thanks. LOVE your kitchen and the Kelvinator.
I read the thread and got dressed and went to the store to get all the needed supplies to make your cake.
When you get a chance send me your correct email address. I want to send you some pictures of my "new " 40 double oven range.
You can send it through the vac msg forum or just use my email address
[email protected].
I can almost smell that cake baking right now! Thanks again.
Rob

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Hans!!!!!!

You've become a culinary phenom.
There'sll be poundcakes all over the U.S. this week.
Coffee, anyone?
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[williamr1248]

Han's makes a pound cake

Han's
I made it this morning. The whole house smells so good!
It came out perfect. I usually bake cakes and pies on top of the range in the Guardian Service Kettle oven or the left side smaller Companion oven but today I used the big oven for this one. You can use the Guardian Service Kettle oven on the large right front burner or the burner on the left is a 3-way"bridged" burner that can be used by itself or with the burner+bridge or with the front+bridge+rear burner if you have an oblong or odd shaped pan like the Guardian Griddle. I really like the smaller side Companion oven for cakes, pies, breads etc as it heats up fast. I use it about 90% of the time.
This is one GOOD pound cake!
I will send you some pictures.

 

[kenkart]

I have the

Complete Guardian oven setup, but I have been afraid of melting it when using it dry as a oven, what heat do you use, surely not high!!???

 

[kenkart]

Thats

A GOOD looking range!

 

[williamr1248]

Hans Craig makes a pound cake

Hans,
You heat the empty pan on almost high heat to bring it up to temp, then add the rack which will bake 2 pies or 2 cake layers at one time.
I have been using it this way for almost 40 years. The Guardian Service was designed to work this way.
The instruction book gives better instructions.

 

[kenkart]

I will try it...

I have the book also, but have been afraid of melting it.It sure would beat heating the oven on these hot days...the AC gets overloaded when its 95 to 100!!!Im so glad you told me it really does work!

 

[human]

Looking at Hans' impressive collection of vintage appliances made me start to wonder just how many of today's appliances, with all their plastic components, integrated circuit boards, sealed battery compartments and such, will even survive long enough to be called 'vintage'. Stuff made today—unlike what was made 40 or more years ago—just isn't intended to last. Heck, many of today's owner's manuals even include instructions for final disposal of the item. Back then, disposability was not a built-in feature of so-called "durable goods".

 

[kenkart]

Think about it!

That stove is 67 years old, as far as I can tell it has had 2 surface units replaced, everything else looks to be original, and the clock even keeps time!!! I challenge anyone to find a stove made today that will last HALF as long!!Todays products just don't have the quality, my thoughts on the subject come down to this, In the 40s and 50s the idea was,"The best we can build it isn't quite good enough", today its"The cheapest we can build it isn't cheap enough!!"..

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Perfectly put

However, when my parents bought our house in 1959, (140 yr old house now), it had an old Bengal stove. It saw a good time... used very hard, even before us. You'd turn on the oven, (light it w/ a match), and the heat was anywhere between "hot" and "cremate a body". It had to go, along with the sink on legs....just too far gone.
Your appliances look and work "fab". No doubt, great American workmanship and pride.
Thanks for sharing that. I, too, intend to make that poundcake...in the near future.
John

 

[human]

Made to last...

My great grandparents built a house in Greenville, S.C. in the early 1920s and it was one of the first in the city to have an electric stove. I believe it was a Westinghouse. It came from the local power company with a lifetime service plan, which included replacing the open coil burners as they went out. By the 1960s, it was the last stove of its kind still in service and at some point, the power company brought their last carton of burners out to the house and left them. A technician would still come and replace them as needed. My great grandmother's sister lived in the house until she died in 1970 and the stove was still there and still working, although they had had to replace one of the burners with a modern Cal-rod burner. I have no idea how much longer that stove remained in service after that, but it was definitely built to last.

Last year, my dad sold the house I grew up in (built in 1964) and it still had the original GE range, still fully functional. I remember one burner and the timer being replaced during the time we lived in the house (1966-1980) and then over the next 34 years, it survived all manner of abuse and neglect by tenants while my parents kept the house as a rental property. The stove in my house is a GE from the mid-'80s and is a piece of junk that needs replacing.