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__Ralph Waldo Emerson

dr. pepper cake


"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne

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Dr. Pepper Cake

Ingredients:
1 and 1/4 cups boilin' Dr. Pepper
1 cup quick cookin' oats
1/2 cup Crisco
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 and 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1 teaspoon nutmeg

Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 375�.
2) Grease and flour a 9 by 9 inch bakin' pan.
3) Pour the boilin' Dr Pepper over the oats, stir,
then let stand for ten to twenty minutes.
4) Cream together the shortenin' and the sugar 'til light and fluffy.
5) Add the eggs, beatin' 'til the mixture is fluffy.
6) Sift together the flour, salt, bakin' soda, and nutmeg.
7) Add flour mixture to creamed mixture, mixin' well.
8) Add the oatmeal mixture and combine thoroughly.
9) Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
10) Bake for forty to forty-five minutes, 'til the cake tests done.
11) Spread ***Coconut Toppin' over the hot cake
and then put the cake under the broiler.
12) Broil 'til bubbly and lightly brown. Serve warm.

***Coconut Toppin'

Ingredients:
1/3 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup light creme
1 cup coconut, finely grated

Instructions:
1) Mix the melted butter with the brown sugar and creme.
2) Stir in the coconut.

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