Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
cousin neva's corn 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
Cousin Neva's Corn Cake
Ingredients:
2 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon bakin' powder1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 [17 ounce size] can creamed corn
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�. Grease a 9x13" cake pan.
2) Thoroughly combine flour, bakin' powder, bakin' soda, salt,
and cinnamon in a large bowl.
3) In a separate bowl, beat together the corn and both sugars.
4) Beat in the oil and the eggs 'ti well blended.
5) Add the flour mixture to the corn mixture and blend well.
6) Fold in the raisins and chopped nuts.
7) Spoon batter into prepared pan.
8) Bake for thirty to thirty five minutes, or 'til the cake tests done.
9) Cool in pan on a wire rack.
10) Ice when cool.
Brown Sugar Icin'
Ingredients:
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup whole milk
2 to 3 cups confectioners' sugar
Instructions:
1) Combine sugar, butter, and milk in a saucepan.
2) Bring to a boil, stirrin' frequently.
3) Remove pan from heat.
4) Gradually add confectioners' sugar 'til the icin' is of proper
spreadin' consistency.
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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