Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
by and by rhubarb cake
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__Emeril Lagasse
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__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
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__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
By And By Rhubarb Cake with Vanilla Sauce
Cake ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 and 1/4 cups white sugar, divided
2 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups chopped rhubarb
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Sauce ingredients:
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup butter
Cake instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350�F.
2. Lightly butter a 9x13x2" bakin' pan and dust with flour.
3. In a medium-size bowl, cream the margarine
and 1 cup of the sugar.
4. Add the eggs; beat well.
5. In a small bowl, combine the buttermilk and vanilla.
6. Into another bowl, sift the flour, bakin' soda, and salt.
7. Add one third of the flour mixture to the creamed mixture
and beat well, then beat in half the buttermilk.
8. Add another third of the flour, then the rest of the buttermilk,
and finally, the remainder of the flour.
9. Stir in the rhubarb.
10. Spread batter in the prepared bakin' pan.
11. Combine the remainin' 1/4 cup of sugar with the cinnamon
and sprinkle over the batter.
12. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or 'till the cake tests done
with a toothpick inserted in the centre.
13. Best served with warm vanilla sauce.
Vanilla sauce instructions:
1. Combine all sauce ingredients in a 1 quart sauce pan.
2. Bring to a boil; simmer for about ten minutes.
3. Serve warm on the rhubarb cake.
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