Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
chocolate mayonnaise 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
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
Ingredients for cake:
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup warm water
3 heapin' tablespoons cocoa
1 cup white sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons bakin' soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions for cake:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) In a large mixin' bowl, combine flour, cocoa, bakin' soda, and sugar.
2) Gradually beat in the mayonnaise, warm water and vanilla 'til thoroughly blended.
3) Pour batter into greased loaf pan.
4) Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or 'til a toothpick inserted in centre
comes out clean.
5) Cool on wire rack before frostin'.
Ingredients for frostin':
1/4 cup butter
1 and 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 and 1/2 tablespoons cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions for frostin':
1) Beat butter 'til smooth.
2) Add remainin' ingredients and continue beatin' 'til creamy.
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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