Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
who knew? chocolate 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
Who Knew? Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 and 1/2 cups white sugar
3 eggs
1 teapoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1 teaspoon bakin' powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
8 ounces sauerkraut --- rinsed, drained, and chopped fine
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�. Grease and flour a 9x13' cake pan.
2) Cream together butter and sugar in a large mixin' bowl
'til light and fluffy.
3) Beat in the eggs one at a time.
4) Beat in the vanilla extract.
5) Sift together dry ingredients and add to egg mixture in small amounts, beatin' well after each addition and alternatin' with
small amounts of water, 'til all have been thoroughly blended in.
6) Stir in the sauerkraut.
7) Pour batter into prepared pan.
8) Bake for thirty-five to forty minutes or 'til cake tests done.
9) Cool completely before icin'.
*Note: folks generally mistake the sauerkraut for coconut.
Chocolate Icin'
Ingredients:
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 and 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions:
1) Melt chocolate chips and butter.
2) Blend in the sour cream, vanilla extract, and salt.
3) Gradually add the confectioners' sugar 'til the icin' is
of proper spreadin' consistency.
4) Beat, then spread over the cooled cake.
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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