"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:51:06 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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>> On 2014-08-14 8:22 AM, sf wrote:
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>> > <shrug> People don't cook anymore and they certainly don't decorate
>> > cakes. Personally, what I saw on that website looked awful and I'd
>> > never be interested - but I know how to cook.
>> >
>>
>> I love Bundt cakes. ASAOF, we have a small piece of one sitting in the
>> the fridge. It is what is leftover from the one my wife made for her
>> church thing last weekend. It is a 7UP cake. We first discovered them
>> back int he 1970s when someone gave us a recipe for a Sherry Cake. They
>> have a nice dense texture that I like and the keep well. They are sweet
>> and dense so a little goes a long way. The leads to the reason we seldom
>> make them. They last too long. Forget about fancy icing. They don't
>> need it. The 7yp cake gets just a little lemon glaze and the sherry
>> cake gets a dusting of icing sugar.
>>
> I don't see cake in my future. Hubby is finally getting serious about
> controlling his blood sugar - started pricking his finger a few days
> ago. So far, a pastrami sandwich put him in the higher numbers but
> everything else has been okay. He was 99 after a walk and 123 first
> thing this morning. His goal is to not to take pills. If that's what
> it takes, then that's what it takes (after a lifetime of bad eating
> habits that were reinforced by no significant weight gain).
>
I used to do a ton of baking. Diabetes really quashed that. I totally quit
baking for a time. I do bake once in a while now. I plan to make a Marion
berry cobbler soon just to use up the rest of my whole wheat pastry flour.