In the process of cleaning out my grandma's cabinets, we found a recipe splattered with various ancient substances. The pen is fading, so we can only make out certain parts of it. The hope is that posting it here, someone more experienced in baking can either fill in the gaps or theorize about what the recipe might be for.
If anyone knows of a better place to post this, I'm open to suggestions.
Here's what we have so far, not interpreted at all, just written as it seems to be written:
6 cups brown rice
2 cup starch
1 cup tapioca
1 1/2 1 1/2 four
C sugar
1 cup coca
2 TS enhan
2 1/2 Teasp BP wax
1 tsp salt
1 Teasp gum
2/5c aLL
4 eggs
1 1/3 cup wet
2 tp
1 cup a
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by SuspiciousPelican
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Sorry about the formatting of what we have deciphered already, here it is in a hopefully more legible form.
6 cups brown rice flour
2 cup starch
1 cup tapioca
1 1/2 four
1 1/2 C sugar
1 cup coca
2 TS enhancer (dough enhancer?)
2 1/2 Teasp Baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 Teasp gum (xanthem gum? Guar gum?)
2/5c oil
4 eggs
1 1/3 cup water
2 tp vanilla
1 cup a
Beat 2 minutes
May I ask, what’s it supposed to be? Pudding? Cake?
My initial thought is some kind of rice pudding. Where you have wax, I think that’s actually mix, with the large parentheses showing which ingredients to mix.
The “1 1/2 1 1/2” looks like they first wrote the lower line as 1 1/2 c sugar, and then added 1 1/2 whatever-that-is on top. Maybe flour, but not sure.
Enhancer might be MSG (sold as flavor enhancer) but I’m not sure if that fits with the rest of the recipe which seems to be sweet.
Good luck!
The dry ingredients say mix with a circle not B wax. I think that should be baking soda or B S (S obscured by stain on paper). The wet ingredients are oil, eggs, water, vanilla. All of this together sounds like a cocoa based chocolate cake. The mystery is why are the brown rice, starcgh (most likely corn starch) and tapioca at the top. These would indicate different puddings but the rest of the ingredients do not work in a pudding (American type).
Here is what I get:
6 cups brown rice
2 cups starch
1 cup tapioca
1 ½ [cups] flour
1 ½ cups sugar
1 cup cocoa
2 t[easpoons] enhancer [?]
2 ½ teaspoons B [or BP wax]
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon gum
[second column] Mix [if the item above is *not* wax]
2/5 cup [or 2/3 cup?] oil
4 eggs
1 1/3 cups wett
2 teaspoons vanilla
[second column] Mix
Beat 2 minutes
I’m wondering whether the first part could be a kind of gluten-free mix to use in place of the flour in the second part. Overall, it seems like a brownie recipe?
If the B ingredient really is wax, maybe some kind of chocolate candy or candy coating?
I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful!
Could it be some sort of gluten-free thing? Brown rice might be brown rice flour, starch could be potato starch, gum could be xanthan gum. For example, look at this recipe for [gluten-free buttermilk bread](https://redstaryeast.com/recipes/gluten-free-farmhouse-buttermilk-bread/). The “coca ” would be weird if that’s cocoa, but maybe that’s coconut something? “Enhan” could be a dough enhancer?
r/glutenfreebaking/ Might have suggestions too. I’m guessing that the top part is a flour mix, likely with corn starch, and you use 1.5 cups of it with the rest of the ingredients. Otherwise, that’s a ton of dry ingredients. Editing to say that cake makes more sense than brownies with that much liquid. Was anyone lactose intolerant too? Something like this, maybe? https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=439594318829411&set=a.130176576437855 That would probably make the B baking powder.
AI says “enhancer” is a dough enhancer. Examples are: Malt(not gluten free), vital wheat gluten, etc. Maybe the enhancer is a gluten item since so many recognize the rest of the ingredients as gluten free. It’s a shame it’s not dated. Also, noticed a recipe on line – champorado (rice porridge). Thanks for sharing this, OP. Cool mystery.
I think it’s possible your grandma might have murdered someone to obtain this recipe.
1 cup Tapioca on 3rd line
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder on line 8
I think I’ve got it! [King Arthur’s Gluten Free Chocolate Cake](https://recipes.glutenfreeresourcedirectory.com/directory/gf-chocolate-cake/)! The ingredients are exact. The first 3 ingredients are a gluten-free flour mix. Then you use 1 1/2 cups of that with the remaining ingredients for the cake. The enhancer is “cake enhancer”.