Talk:German chocolate cake

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This page appears to quote the page it cites at the end (^ German chocolate cake history Kitchen Project. Retrieved 2006-11-22 ) verbatim. Kvcad 03:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This page says Sam German was an Englishman, but the Snopes page says he was an American. Which is it!?!?!?!??! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.3.217.217 (talk) 17:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity of Samuel German?[edit]

What is Samuel German's specific ethnicity? That he has the surname German does that mean his ancestors were from Germany since that is not a common English surname? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.100.44.179 (talk) 04:28, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

He was propably of both English and German descent, like most White Americans. --94.37.84.33 (talk) 14:13, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

According to this source [1], Samuel German (1802-1888) came from Biddeford, Devonshire, England. He came to the Dorchester, Massachusetts at some time during the 1830’s or earlier. Burraron (talk) 11:40, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fix/clarification requested[edit]

From the article: "It owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally used for the chocolate flavor in the actual cake, but few recipes call for it today."

This is hard to understand. The original recipe calls specifically for "Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate" ^[1] and when I google for "german chocolate cake recipe", a majority of the first results call for either "Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate", "German's Sweet Chocolate" or "Sweet Baking Chocolate".

The wording from the article seems to say that few of the recipes today call for sweet baking chocolate, when in fact most of them do. I think the author was trying to say that the original recipe called for German's brand, but many recipes today do not state a brand and just say "sweet baking chocolate".

Bowen Travis (talk) 01:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.yesterdish.com/2013/03/11/germans-chocolate-cake/

And where is Kathy's version?[edit]

"The best version of this cake is made by Kathy Palmer, wife of Miles Palmer who receives this every year for his birthday. " 2603:6011:7A01:77BF:C035:19D3:CA06:4769 (talk) 13:26, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Invented date in infobox[edit]

The infobox says that the cake was invented in 1852, but that isn't backed up in the article. The article says that the chocolate brand was started in 1852, but doesn't cite any history for the cake in the same year. 92anonymous92 (talk) 00:15, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"German cake" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

The redirect German cake has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 6 § German cake until a consensus is reached. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 03:05, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.yesterdish.com/2013/03/11/germans-chocolate-cake/

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