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AOL Links <a href="http://www.nancys-kitchen.com/september-27-2005.htm";> Sept 27 Newsletter</a> <a href="http://www.farmer-john-and-wife.com";> Down home and Southwest Recipes</a> <a href="http://www.aliciasrecipes.com/porkchop_recipes.htm";> Pork Chop Recipes If you have AOL and can't access the links please search for www.nancys-kitchen.com and go to the index. September 27, 2005 newsletter has been posted online. http://www.nancys-kitchen.com/september-27-2005.htm Thought for the Day A lot of today's frustration is caused by a surplus of simple answers coupled with a tremendous shortage of simple problems. To make room for new content I will be deleting August 2004 (last year's) newsletters on Wednesday, September 28th. September and October 2004 (last year's ) newsletters will be deleted October 1st. Nancy ================= Rhonda in Texas - This is a simple chocolate cake recipe that goes over big when I make it. Triple Chocolate Cake One small box of chocolate pudding and pie filling (the kind you cook, not instant) 2 cups of milk 1 chocolate cake mix (I use one with pudding in the mix) 1/3 cup oil One 12 ounce package of chocolate chips 1/3 cup of nuts (I usually use walnuts) Make the pudding as instructed on the package. As soon as it starts to boil, remove from heat and add the dry chocolate cake mix and the oil. Stir together until mixed. Pour into greased 9 x 13 x 2 cake pan. Top with chocolate chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Remove from the oven. Top with chocolate chips. Patty from the San Francisco Bay Area === This is for Sue in North Carolina, from Yvonne in Oklahoma. Root Beer Cake Cake: 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Pinch salt 1 cup root beer (do not use diet) 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Frosting: 6 tablespoons root beer 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar 1/4 cup ( 1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-inch springform pan. For cake, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. Put 1 cup root beer in a small saucepan; boil, uncovered, until it is reduced to 1/2 cup, about 5 minutes. Cool to lukewarm. Beat brown sugar and butter in large bowl of an electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stop the mixer and add the reduced root beer and vanilla. Mix just to combine. Fold in the dry ingredients with a rubber spatula. Transfer batter to prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Poke holes all over top with a toothpick. Brush with about 3 tablespoons of the root beer. Remove the sides from the pan and cool cake completely. For frosting, mix remaining 3 tablespoons root beer, confectioners' sugar, butter and vanilla in a small bowl to make a thin frosting. Spread over top of cooled cake, letting it drip down the sides. === Carolyn asked for soft Molasses Cookies. Here is a recipe that came from my great-grandmother. It was in my mother's TNT cookbook that she kept. Be sure to follow directions carefully to get the soft cookie. SOFT MOLASSES COOKIES Cream together: 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups sorghum OR molasses 3 eggs 1 cup lard OR butter OR margarine Add: 1 tablespoon soda in 1/4 cup water 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 tablespoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 3 tablespoon ginger 1/2 teaspoon cloves Add: 7-1/2 cups of flour ~ Mix well. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake for 8-10 minutes This dough is fairly stiff-yet soft. Take large tablespoon and drop on cookie sheet-or roll in fingers size large walnut then press flat with a spoon. After 8 minutes of baking test with finger and take out while they still indent. If baked too long they will be like a ginger snap. Bette~Indiana ================= Unsubscribing If you wish to unsubscribe please use the link listed at the bottom of this email newsletter. Use the unsubscribe link and put only the word unsubscribe in the topic/subject area and only the word unsubscribe in the message area of the email. Just clicking on reply on this newsletter will not get you unsubscribed. Nancy Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nancys_kitchen/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
