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Great Pumpkin Sheet Cake Photo credit, J. Heston.SOTO © Archive.
I think it's darned near impossible to separate Ozark culture from Ozark cooking. And with culinary sensibilities long-inherited from a tradition best described as "Southern-by-way-of-the-Cumberland-Gap," I'm happy to now preside as editor over this section.
Great Pumpkin Sheet Cake

Cake

4 eggs beaten
1 cup oil
2 cups sugar
1 16-oz. can pumpkin
2 cup flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon baking soda in 1 teaspoon water


Mix eggs, oil, sugar, pumpkin and soda. Add flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt. Pour into un-greased baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes at 400°F.


Icing:

8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 stick butter, softened
1 box powdered sugar
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup pecans


Mix all ingredients except nuts. Spread over cake and sprinkle with pecans.


— recipe courtesy of Dale Grubaugh



— Joshua Heston 10/24/09