Some things I have thought about a great deal today instead of homework:
1. Cake
2. Watching Mad Men with my mom
I cannot organize my thoughts into one coherent entry until I finish this Capstone essay, but I need to jump-start my writing muscles, so here we are.
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I wanted to do homework this afternoon, I really did, but I was hungry, so I ate supper, then I took a nap because I was tired and my head hurt, and then I woke up with an insatiable craving for cake.
If I had to choose a favorite cake, it would be a three-way tie between my mom's chocolate sheet cake, my paternal grandmother's coconut cake, and my maternal grandmother's caramel cake (when she doesn't try to substitute something in it to "make it healthier", most memorably angel food cake instead of yellow cake. this resulted in chaos and unhappiness.) Although the latter's lemon cake is also mind-blowingly excellent.
Pies are a good thing too, (I think in particular of my maternal grandmother's pecan pie and blueberry pie) but there is nothing like a really good slice of cake. It is fluffy, usually mixes well with milk and ice cream, and there is the issue of decoration to consider. All pies have to offer beside the filling is the crust, whereas cakes have flavored icing, in the shape of things; maybe flowers.
HAVE A RECIPE:
My Grandmother's Lemon Cake
Ingredients
Cake:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable Crisco
6 eggs
1 tablespoon milk
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Icing:
1 box confectioner's sugar
juice from two lemons
1/2 cup milk
Steps
1. Preheat oven to 275 deg. F
2. Mix sugar and Crisco thoroughly
3. Add eggs and flour little by little; 2 eggs and 1/2 cup flour at a time.
4. Add lemon juice and milk
5. Mix well and bake
6. Mix icing ingredients well and pour over warm cake
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Mom: Omgomgomg ~*Jon Hamm*~ you are so attractive.
Me: I KNOW RIGHT. JUST. Don Draper is such an awful awful person that I would loathe in real life and kind of hate in TV life, but hot damn JON HAMM.
Mom: STOP CURSING, I raised you better than that.
Me: MRS. BLANKENSHIP IS ON SCREEN, EVERYONE BE QUIET.
The favorite character on Mad Men of both myself and my mom is Mrs. Blankenship, definitely, full on, all the way across the sky. Because she is clearly the refreshing fount of no-nonsense I-dislike-you-and-am-in-no-way-attracted-to-you-Don that none of his other secretaries have been. Also she has maybe the best lines, especially considering that they're all uttered in this extremely loud, passive-aggressive, monotone growl.
"MR. DRAPER, YOUR CHILD'S PSYCHOLOGIST CALLED."
"MR. DRAPER, SOMEONE CALLED WHEN YOU WERE IN THE TOILET, I DON'T REMEMBER HIS NAME, HE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT LUNCH."
Every single time she is on screen, we just collapse with laughter. Maybe this is a thing that will only be understood by those who watch this show. Probably. It always makes me laugh, though.
You gave the lemon cake recipe! I will so add it to my recipes document until the title of "Caitlin's Grandma's Lemon Cake." Or something similar.
ReplyDeleteHaha, most of my recipes are like a series of citations for who came up with them. Like a family/friend tree of food. Anyway, yes, the lemon cake is basically the one cake I've mastered, so here you are.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't it make you sick to look in the mirror and see how perfect you are, Jon Hamm? Don't you ask yourself why God can be so cruel to make so many ugly people in the world and then make you? Don't you think you should think that? *sneeze*
ReplyDeleteI love cake. And pie. And now I'm hungry.