[Sca-cooks] Flourless chocolate cake, was History -- pecan pie recipe

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I wrote:
>  Well, sometimes i see them as flourless chocolate cakes. My mother made one
>  in a jelly roll pan, dusted it with powdered sugar, then spread homemade
>  whipped cream on it and rolled it up, then covered the outside with a
>  wonderful homemade dark fudgey chocolate icing. This was only for holidays -
>  Thanksgiving and Christmas... I've found recipes just like it on Jewish
>  cooking websites.

Jaume wrote:
>  Weird - I'm used to seeing them un-iced, sometimes dusted with 
>powdered sugar.

I gave specific details of one kind my mother made and that i find on 
many Jewish cooking web sites. The ingredients in the family are very 
much like the one that Crixa makes, but theirs is deep and served in 
squares, whereas my mother made hers thinner, then prepared as i 
described

There's another kind that is dense and gummy that i've had in 
restaurants, which is sort of like a compacted deflated mousse, often 
with ground nuts in it. This generally goes down the hatch like a 
cannonball, although often a delicious one.

I prefer the kind that Crixa makes and my mother made - light and 
airy, yet with very intense and rich flavor.
-- 
Someone sometimes called Urtatim