Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
queen bee honey 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
Queen Bee Honey Cake
Ingredients:
2 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cloves
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
3/4 teaspoon bakin' soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1 and 1/2 tablespoons corn oil
3 tablespoons dark brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon white sugar
3 large eggs, beaten
1 and 1/2 cups wildflower honey
1 cup sour cream
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 350�.
2) Grease and flour a ten inch tube pan.
3) Sift the flour, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, cream of tartar, bakin' soda, and salt together in a medium sized mixin' bowl.
4) In a separate [and larger] mixin' bowl, beat together the melted butter, corn oil, and both sugars 'til thoroughly blended.
5) Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
6) Add the honey and sour cream all and once and beat
'til the batter is smooth.
7) Beat in the flour mixture, 1 cup at a time, beatin' well
after each addition.
8) Fold in the dried cranberries and pecans.
9) Pour the batter into the prepared tube pan.
10) Bake forty-five to fifty minutes, or 'til cake tests done.
11) Invert the cake onto a wire rack and cool completely.
12) Keep the cake in an airtight container for two days prior to servin'.
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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