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I don't think I own the Joy of Cooking.  My wife might have had had one, 
although it was probably lost more than 20 years ago.  As for Chowhound, it 
is located at http://www.chowhound.com.  They have a very active 
Washington/Baltimore area bulletin board (as well as other local, regional 
and topical boards).


"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <vJmdnSlK6O3aYKfcRVn-sw@comcast.com>,
> Paul Green <pgreen @ comcast.net> wrote:
>>Who makes a decent chocolate cake (with good chocolate icing) here in
>>Northern Montgomery County? There used to be a fine, old-style bakery in
>>Aspen Hill (not all that Northern, but doable), but it is long gone. I am
>>tired of mediocre grocery store cakes, with their Crisco icing. I am 
>>shocked
>>and horrified by some of the fancier bakeries, with their pretty cakes 
>>that
>>taste as if they were made from sawdust. Someone once told me that the 
>>Giant
>>Gourmet makes a decent cake, but that was back when there actually was a
>>local grocery chain called "Giant" that actually baked its own stuff. Will 
>>I
>>have to bake my own? What is a chocolate cake lover to do?
>
> You MUST make the _Rombauer Special_ recipe from the Joy of Cooking.  It 
> is
> very simple and easy to make, and requires nothing more sophisticated than
> a bowl and a spoon.  It is the best chocolate cake I ever put in my mouth.
>
>>[While I know that most of this board's traffic has migrated to Chowhound,
>>hope springs eternal.]
>
> What is Chowhound?  Is it some kind of 'web thing?
>
>>And if I may wax nostalgic for a second, I well recall walking into one of
>>those old-style bakeries as a kid and almost going crazy over the 
>>wonderful
>>aromas.  The Aspen Hill bakery (I can't even remember the name, except 
>>that
>>I think it may have started with an "E"--it was next to the hardware store
>>that no longer exists) was one of those.  I suppose the other question is
>>will I do better just buying a cake mix, and whipping up some good icing
>>(even Alton Brown concedes that it is hard to do better than a good mix
>>cake)?
>
> Who needs icing?  Just a little powdered sugar on top will be just fine.
> --scott
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."