DailyInbox: DIB Presents - 10-15-04 - Eggless Spice Cake

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If you can't read this or the formatting is incorrect, please go to http://www.dailyinbox.com. . DailyInbox Presents Knowledge, Insight, Fun and Food for October 15, 2004 .         DailyInbox Also Presents: * Chicken Soup for the Soul * Heloise's Hints * From the Masters * America in Uniform * Trivia * Bible Verses Good Housekeeping's Site of the Day FamilyTLC.net http://www.familytlc.net/ Here's a neat site that has 'tools to enhance the parent/child relationship,' something all adults who are around children definitely need, no matter what the adult's education level or background might be.  The information on FamilyTLC is easily retrieved, allowing one to enter a child's age to 'access family activities - games, sports, crafts, music, cooking, nature and more.'  There are also 'parenting tips, articles on child development and hundreds of new age-appropriate child activities each month.'  With a stated mission of providing 'busy, caring adults with a means to encourage learning and enrich relationships with their children . . . by delivering quality ideas and activities to help families plan their time together and links to appropriate resources,' this is definitely a site to keep in your favorites for those long afternoons when all avenues of entertainment and education have been exhausted � FamilyTLC to the rescue! To submit a specific site for us to review in Site of the Day (or to make a suggestion for a site topic), please click here. Click here for the Good Housekeeping Site of the Day Archive. Proverbs Plus Heroism is endurance for one moment more. -- Caucasian Mountain Proverb And Then There's...   Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Reader's Digest CyberSmiles One day after a heavy snowfall, this announcement appeared on the bulletin board in the nurses lounge of my local hospital: "Student nurses will please refrain from ever again using this institution's sterile bedpans for makeshift snow sleds."  --Contributed to "All In a Day's Work" by Jill Marie Bonnier Smiles, grins & humor from the files of Reader's Digest! The Recipe File Desserts: Eggless Spice Cake from Traditions... A Taste of the Good Life INGREDIENTS for Spice Cake: 1-1/2 sticks butter 1-1/2 cups sugar 3 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon allspice 1 teaspoon cloves 1-1/2 cups buttermilk, at room temperature 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1-1/2 cups chopped pecans 1-1/2 cups raisins INGREDIENTS for Penuche Frosting: 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup milk 3 Tablespoons shortening 1 Tablespoon butter 1/4 teaspoon salt 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted 1 teaspoon vanilla TO PREPARE Spice Cake:   Grease a 9 x 13 pan or 3 (8 inch) pans.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream butter and sugar together.  Sift flour with spices.  Add soda and dissolve in buttermilk.  (Do not do this too early as the buttermilk expands.)  Alternately add the buttermilk mixture and flour mixture to creamed butter, mixing well as you go.  Add pecans and raisins.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.  Serve with Penuche Frosting. TO PREPARE Penuche Frosting:   Combine brown sugar, milk, shortening, butter and salt in saucepan and cook for 3 minutes.  Cool mixture and add powdered sugar and vanilla.  Frost cake immediately. . YIELDS:  18 servings Copyright 1983 The Junior League of Little Rock, Inc.  All rights reserved.  To purchase copies of Traditions, call the Junior League of Little Rock at (501) 666-0658 or order by mail at P.O. Box 7453, Little Rock, AR 72217.  The cost is $18.95 plus $4.00 shipping/handling for first book ($2.00 each additional book).  You may also purchase copies of any of the Junior League of Little Rock cookbooks through their website (http://www.jllr.org).   Print this recipe Send this recipe to a friend Subscription Information You are subscribed with e-mail address:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] To modify your subscription information visit:  The Subscription Center To unsubscribe immediately, click here:  The Remove Page To unsubscribe using email, forward this message to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail your unsubscribe request to:   DailyInbox P.O. Box 913 Wimberley, TX 78676 View our:  Privacy Policy Contact email address:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]