Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
Granny's yam 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
This is one of many recipes passed down to me by my granny,
every one of 'em a treasured inheritance. Granny's talent for cookin'
was almost as breathtakin' as her shine and even folks who were afraid
of her due to the latter, grudgingly admired the former.
Granny's Yam Cake
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups canola oil
2 cups flour, sifted twice
1 tsp. bakin' soda
3 cups raw yams, grated
2 cups suger
2 tsp. bakin' powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
4 eggs
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
Instructions
1) Preheat oven to 325�.
2) Combine oil and sugar and mix well.
3) Sift together remainin' dry ingredients.
4) Add to sugar mixture, alternatin' with eggs added one at a time.
5) Add grated yams & mix well.
6) Stir in pecans.
7) Pour batter into a greased & floured bundt pan.
8) Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
9) Cool in upright pan.
10) Make a glaze of powdered sugar and orange juice.
11) Remove cake from pan and pour glaze over the top
when it's almost cool.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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