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Over 101 Coffee Cake Recipes. A delicious selection to make morning & afternoon teas something special. Everything from apples and berries to chocolate, sour cream, cheese, spices and fruits. You name it it's here! Try the delicious Hummingbird cake - 2 versions, so choose your favourite or maybe a Swedish streudal? Yummy!! eBook FREE digital delivery
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Vintage Kid's Books Posted 26/7/09
Until next time,
Baby elephant on show for the first time today posted 10th Feb, 2010 My thoughts for this week are about speech and the English language. I had the misfortune to listen to a bright young pair on the radio this morning; my husband chose a station at random last night and set our new alarm clock for 8 this morning, and I awoke to the sounds of mindless banter between two very young presenters, on some unknown breakfast show, trying very hard to sound intelligent; but it was their language that set my teeth on edge - not foul language, just the fact that they couldn't speak a language. After prattling about politics in a juvenile way, she then mentioned some 'unrelevant' information she'd share with him later. Now I've heard of unprofitable, unsolicited, untimely, untruth, unworthy and even unperson, amongst others, but never 'unrelevant'. I found the use of this word unsavoury, unprecedented, unprofessional, unskilled and it should be unutterable. I think the word she was trying to say was 'irrelevant', which was exactly what she had become to me; she was also irredeemable and irrecoverable as a presenter, I on the other hand, am irrepressible when it comes to the irreverent use of our language. I'm also unremitting when it comes to picking on people for phonetic spelling, such as dayz, luv, color, but it really sets my teeth on edge when people make up words. Youtube uses the word 'favourited' as in "Ursula favourited a video clip" Anyone know of any other stupid made up words??
Posted 21/6/09
I've spent the last week wondering if I had Swine 'flu, I've been so ill. But no, it wasn't. Trust me to get another virus no one ever heard of. I thought it might be Yuppie 'flu at one stage, as I could hardly drag myself from bed. I couldn't even read because for 2 days even my eyes hurt! Hence, no computer and no posts. The doc ordered blood tests and all that usual stuff, but now I'm just to stay home and, yep! rest.
It's pretty cold here in Aus at the moment, so I've been up since yesterday, curled up in front of the fire, toasting my toes, and visiting with an
old friend.
I have read the book but never seen the movie, maybe I should
put it on my rentals list, what do you think?
T.
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 T.
: 12:50 PM
Yummy Coffee Cake Recipes and Hummingbird Cake Well, I've spent the whole day on the computer, but as usual was sidetracked into visiting other people's blogs, and I joined a couple of groups that look interesting. I try to visit at least one new blog a day, but sometimes these lead to another...and another...and another. I was going to work on my comic shop, and ended up working on the blog and news page from the book shop, th  en I messed up frontpage and had my tables jumping all over the screen when I viewed them in firefox. I still don't understand why somethings work OK in explorer, but appear so different in firefox. I've now added a comments box to my website, so we'll see what comes of that (that's what caused all the table misshaps). I completed a great ebook, which took me away from Mrs Beeton again. It's all about favourite coffee cake recipes, and of course I had to try a few, and do photos. Also cooked some rhubarb from a Mrs B recipe, it was delicious. Very simple, just some sugar syrup, vanilla and a couple of cloves in the pot, and then we had it with cream and custard. Here's one of the original pages from Mrs B's book, on sweets and desserts.
Here's one of the recipes for Hummingbird Cake from my eBook: In the book I have included full tables of oven temps (C to F) and gms to ounces etc.,so it took some time.
Hummingbird Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients: * 3 cups all-purpose flour * 2 cups granulated sugar * 1/2 teaspoon salt * 2 teaspoons baking soda * 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
* 3 eggs, beaten
* 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
* 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple, well drained
* 1 cup chopped pecans
* 2 cups chopped firm ripe banana
* .
* Cream Cheese Frosting:
* 450gms (16 ounces) cream cheese, softened
* 1 cup butter, room temperature
* 900gms (2 pounds) confectioners' (icing) sugar
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1/2 to 1 cup chopped pecans
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 190-200C (350°F). Sift flour, sugar, salt, baking soda and cinnamon together into mixing bowl several times. Add eggs and salad oil to the dry ingredients. Stir with a wooden spoon until ingredients are moistened. Stir in vanilla, pineapple and 1 cup pecans. Stir in the bananas. Spoon the batter into 3 well-greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes,or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto cooling rack. Cool completely before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting:
Combine cream cheese and butter; cream until smooth. Add powdered sugar, beating with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla.
Frost the tops of all 3 layers, stack and then frost sides. Sprinkle top evenly with the 1/2 to 1 cup chopped pecans.
In the book I have included over 100 recipes for some delicious cakes . Here's a couple of pics of the finished cakes. Yummy!! Everything from chocolate, berries, fruits, sour cream and nuts. Something for everyone. Now all I have to do is find an excuse to make them again. Thankfully I can't eat much cake these days, but I do love to bake them all.
Posted 30/5/09
Comments:
Your daughter is pretty and has a nice smile! Congrats! And by
the way nice going with your blog... I see youve gained followers,
perhaps because youve put googlefriendconnect on top? keep up the
good work
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temps., now just exhaust me, and being so fair skinned, I burn easily.
That 'old friend' I visited, was in fact To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I watched the movie with Gregory Peck not so long ago, one of the few films true to the original book. I hope there are not too many out there who haven't read this wonderful book. Here's a copy of the cover from the first edition, a rare and very expensive edition to own (unfortunately I don't own a first, but I do own at least 3 copies, one strictly for reading only). For those who have never read it, please do. Set in South Alabama during the depression, this pulitzer-prize winner dissects the white and black communities of the American South. Atticus Finch is a lawyer, who defends a black man against a false rape charge, making Atticus and his family the focus of a backward communities fear,hate and prejudices. It must be one of the most powerful novels written, with the story being told through the gentle humour of Scout, Atticus' daughter; her innocent child's view of the world making the story more poignant and real. Atticus is a rare thing, a really good man, who cannot ignore the plight of Tom, his client, even though it places his family at risk. Through the main battle there are sub plots of course, one in which Jeb, Atticus' son learns the meaning of real courage. A lovely, lovely book. Well I haven't finished this dip into it yet, even though I know it so well each read brings me something new; I'm back to the fire again!
Cheers Ursula 