there is honey cake in my kitchen and i can't eat it
i know it's not sunset yet, but shana tovah to my fellow hebs! may you be inscribed in the book of life for a good year. :D
my sister is having people over tomorrow night after services, so i made a honey cake.
cindy's grandma's honey cake!
1 envelope dry yeast
1 cup lukewarm coffee
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1/2 lb honey (2/3 cup)
1 cup raisins, floured
1. Dissolve yeast in coffee, stirring occasionally
2. Set oven to 325; grease a 10” square baking pan
3. Sift dry ingredients together, except for sugar. Set aside
4. Cream shortening in mixer, gradually adding sugar til well blended
5. Beat eggs, one at a time, into mixer while running
6. Add honey
7. Add dry ingredients and coffee to mixture alternately
8. Fold in floured raisins, mix well
9. Pour into baking pan.
10. Bake 45 minutes. Test for doneness
NOTES
Watch cooking time carefully: start testing at 45 minutes. The cake can overcook and will then be too dry
Makes a savory, moist cake with good keeping qualities
Can use either dark or light raisins
Can be made in a loaf pan, will need to bake 1 hr 10 min before testing
(if you use a loaf pan, which i did because i don't have a 10"x10" pan and couldn't find one in time, you'll have batter left over. buy a pack of tinfoil mini loaf pans and use one of those for the extra. the mini loaf will be done after about an hour.)
my kitchen does not smell quite as coffee-y as it did last year, probably because my parents called after i dissolved the yeast and sifted the dry ingredients but before i started creaming, and we were on the phone an hour so the coffee had cooled by then. also, i have wiped an ungodly amount of flour off every flat surface, including the toaster oven and the measuring spoons i didn't use. (they were sitting out just in case.) pouring three cups of dry ingredients into a mixmaster bowl while it's mixing gets flour EVERYWHERE. on the other hand, i have honey cake, so.
last night i saw crazy rich asians again. i may or may not have ordered dumplings from the chinese place down the street at almost eleven at night. ahem.
there were some canvassers for the aspca outside the t station when i got back from getting my comics. i heard one of them say to someone who must have been walking behind me "the most important question: hats or dogs?" and i thought hats on dogs, of course! in that vein there was a dog festival of some kind across the street from my house today, which meant a. SO MANY PEOPLE WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF DOGS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, and b. there was nowhere to park when i got back from the grocery store. >.< but so many dogs! they're good dogs, brent. :D
india rolled back a colonial era ban on gay sex! go india.
check out this article about an international all-women team that went to the north pole. the pic of all these ladies standing at the pole with their various flags is pretty fabulous. they also served as research guinea pigs to get some scientific data on how weather extremes affect women, since there's so little of that kind of data because men are usually used as the baseline. one of the things they had to do was spit in test tubes regularly, and according to one of the explorers, she wasn't that great a spitter so her test tubes were a little goopy.
my sister is having people over tomorrow night after services, so i made a honey cake.
cindy's grandma's honey cake!
1 envelope dry yeast
1 cup lukewarm coffee
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1/2 lb honey (2/3 cup)
1 cup raisins, floured
1. Dissolve yeast in coffee, stirring occasionally
2. Set oven to 325; grease a 10” square baking pan
3. Sift dry ingredients together, except for sugar. Set aside
4. Cream shortening in mixer, gradually adding sugar til well blended
5. Beat eggs, one at a time, into mixer while running
6. Add honey
7. Add dry ingredients and coffee to mixture alternately
8. Fold in floured raisins, mix well
9. Pour into baking pan.
10. Bake 45 minutes. Test for doneness
NOTES
Watch cooking time carefully: start testing at 45 minutes. The cake can overcook and will then be too dry
Makes a savory, moist cake with good keeping qualities
Can use either dark or light raisins
Can be made in a loaf pan, will need to bake 1 hr 10 min before testing
(if you use a loaf pan, which i did because i don't have a 10"x10" pan and couldn't find one in time, you'll have batter left over. buy a pack of tinfoil mini loaf pans and use one of those for the extra. the mini loaf will be done after about an hour.)
my kitchen does not smell quite as coffee-y as it did last year, probably because my parents called after i dissolved the yeast and sifted the dry ingredients but before i started creaming, and we were on the phone an hour so the coffee had cooled by then. also, i have wiped an ungodly amount of flour off every flat surface, including the toaster oven and the measuring spoons i didn't use. (they were sitting out just in case.) pouring three cups of dry ingredients into a mixmaster bowl while it's mixing gets flour EVERYWHERE. on the other hand, i have honey cake, so.
last night i saw crazy rich asians again. i may or may not have ordered dumplings from the chinese place down the street at almost eleven at night. ahem.
there were some canvassers for the aspca outside the t station when i got back from getting my comics. i heard one of them say to someone who must have been walking behind me "the most important question: hats or dogs?" and i thought hats on dogs, of course! in that vein there was a dog festival of some kind across the street from my house today, which meant a. SO MANY PEOPLE WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF DOGS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, and b. there was nowhere to park when i got back from the grocery store. >.< but so many dogs! they're good dogs, brent. :D
india rolled back a colonial era ban on gay sex! go india.
check out this article about an international all-women team that went to the north pole. the pic of all these ladies standing at the pole with their various flags is pretty fabulous. they also served as research guinea pigs to get some scientific data on how weather extremes affect women, since there's so little of that kind of data because men are usually used as the baseline. one of the things they had to do was spit in test tubes regularly, and according to one of the explorers, she wasn't that great a spitter so her test tubes were a little goopy.