[Rakkasan1]

What a country! this takes the cake...

[Old Professer]

If there is a seed from which culture might grow it is this sort of small accomplishment that stands testament to almost a century of an otherwise undisturbed field, untrampled.

[Lijahsbubbe]

They used to sell bundt cake mixes in the stores. I don't see them around at all now.

Rest in peace Mr. Dahlquist, and thank you.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Did he also create the Bedt pan?

[jimfree]

Thanks much. I forwarded the link to this post to Dr. Mrs. jimfree whose first college degree was in Home Economics Education. (Fontbonne College for you folks in the St. Louis area)

[x]

That solves one of the great mysteries of our time. Was the "Bundt" cake something new or some Old World tradition? Nobody I knew had ever heard of them, but the commercials were so confident about this being an old family favorite. You know that way advertisers have -- "Now you can make the Bundt cakes your family always loved as a child ..." -- that convinces people that, yes, they must have eaten something like that at a family gathering, or starts them wondering if they'd missed out on something in life. The spelling suggested something German, but Europeans hadn't heard of them either.

FWIW, the German Chocolate Cake doesn't come from Germany. It's named after Samuel German, a chocolate maker. Yet I'm sure some people have convinced themselves that it's exactly what their ancestors were eating in Vienna or the Black Forest or the Harz Mountains.

What was the point of the pan? If you poured Bundt mix into a different-shaped pan did that make the result inedible? Or would it just be a social faux pas?