GOD USES BROKEN EGGS

Happy Thursday! Deb and I began this blog yesterday, and we had 66 of you peeps take a looksee. No feedback, yet, but we remain ever hopeful. We hope you will all have as much fun with this as we are!

I have a box of recipes (on index cards and notes) passed on from my mother, my aunts, my grandmothers and their friends. They are a joy to read, because they evoke memories of another time. A time when things weren't packaged and fast-food. A time when you planned your weekly menus, and used what was left over in your fridge to make soup or stew. You remember those times?

Many of my grandmother's recipes had measurements such as butter the size of a medium egg. She taught me to cook, and so I do things much like her. Deb has said that she, too has that kind of cooking expertise.. no recipes, just imagination. And that's what makes these old recipes so delightful.

Up for today is a recipe from my Aunt Pearl Wolf, a missionary in Haiti, sent via a note to my mother in 1950! It is exactly as how she wrote it! Hope you enjoy. I leave you to your imagination to figure out more bells and whistles for this deliciousness - just like in those days gone by.

The Cackling Hens

 

      Cooking for Fun!

      Deb Rehder & Sunny Rowe

BANANA CAKE

2-1/2 Cups Cake Flour

2-1/2 tsp. Baking Powder

1/2 tsp. Baking Soda

1/2 tsp. Salt

1/2 Cup Shortening (Lard or Butter)

1-1/4 Cup Sugar

2 BROKEN Eggs

2-1/2 Tbsp. Milk

1 Cup Mashed Ripe Bananas

1 tsp. Vanilla

 

Sift flour, salt, soda and baking powder together twice. Cream together sugar and shortening until fluffy, then add eggs and beat again. Mix bananas and milk together, then added mixture to flour a little at a time.

Makes (2) 9" cakes.

Bake 350 degree oven for 25 minutes.

Imagination:  This is wonderful dusted with powered sugar for a picnic. It is especially good as a base for summer fruit shortcakes, such as strawberry, blueberries, raspberries and peaches. You can also add pecans, coconut, walnuts, Kahlua or chocolate chips. Bakes up nicely in a bundt pan, or loaf pan. Or try it as the base batter for pineapple upside-down cake!

Fixin The Brokeness! Remember the days of long ago; think about the generations past. Ask your father, and he will inform you. Inquire of your elders, and they will tell you. (Deuteronomy 32:7) What joy it brings you to think about "the good ole days"! I remember sitting on the porch with my grandma and aunt. Just swinging and talking about anything that would come up. We didn't have the television on, we weren't texting other people while we sat with each other. The telephone hung on the wall in the living room, not on our laps waiting for the next person to call us because we are so important. We lived in the "then" moment. Whoever or whatever was in front of us was more important. What will our children remember about their youth when they get older? Take some time to share with the younger generation about your generation. You owe it to them! Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine. Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance. Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of their behavior. Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives. (Titus 2:1-6)