Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
bean bread
"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
Bean Bread
Ingredients:
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup boilin' water
2 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups white sugar
16 oz can Pork 'n Beans [or Vegetarian Baked Beans]
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon bakin' powder
1 tsp bakin' soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 325�.
2) Pour boilin' water over the raisins and set aside to cool.
3) Beat eggs, oil, sugar and Beans 'til smooth.
4) Stir together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, bakin' powder,
and bakin' soda.
5) Add the flour mixture to the bean mixture and combine.
6) Add the vanilla and walnuts.
7)Add the raisin mixture.
8) Pour the batter into two greased loaf pans and bake
for fifty to sixty minutes, or 'til loaves test done.
9) Cool before slicin'.
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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