On 8/14/2014 3:50 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:51:06 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2014-08-14 8:22 AM, sf wrote:
>>>
>>> > <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.

Doesn't that require a good soaking in Cognac?

;-)