PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Thank You

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Thank You

Thank you, Janet. Until the last few years, I made cakes from scratch. I still do unless I am given a boxed cake mix. Mostly, I give box mixes away to someone who can use them.

Cake Boss is the name of the show I saw, not Cake Doctor.

I will keep you posted on what I make, including the recipe on my blog. Is that legal? She will get the credit.

Right now, a fresh peach sounds just about right.

Your turn
Have you ever made any cake from the recipe book, The Cake Doctor? If so, what was your favorite cake?

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Janie JunebugJuly 17, 2013 at 7:49 PM
I've made a lot of those cakes. My oxymorons (adult children) love snickerdoodle cake for their birthdays. My favorite is darn good chocolate cake. It doesn't having frosting, and it doesn't need any. The cake doctor's cakes are wonderfully moist.

Love,
Janie
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AnonymousJuly 17, 2013 at 8:46 PM
I have borrowed that book from the library several times. I have memorized the method for doctoring cakes, and now create my own. I still do not think they compare to "scratch " cakes, but when mixes go on sale for 88¢/box, I stock up, then use her ideas to fix a nice treat when I am in a crunch for time.
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LindaJuly 17, 2013 at 10:56 PM
mnb,
That is a good skill you have learned/developed. Using cheap cake mixes would be a good way to make these. They all sound so interesting. Thanks for the comment.
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JanetJuly 17, 2013 at 11:37 PM
Linda my friend.
You are very welcome. While they are not as good as a scratch cake they are a ton better than a cake made straight from the box. I will look forward to hearing your opinions on the ones you try. Please keep us posted.
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JanetJuly 17, 2013 at 11:37 PM
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LL Cool JoeJuly 19, 2013 at 6:52 AM
Last time I made a cake was at college. It turned out pretty well really. :D
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Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Thank You

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