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"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>> I'd doubt that recipe... I've never seen
>>> a recipe that indicates "2 Each Large Eggs"...WTF is an Each egg???
>>> Without a photo of the cake I don't believe it was ever baked. I
>>> studied that recipe, it's a definite FAKE.

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>> No, the recipe is not FAKE, I actually used this recipe this afternoon
>> and made cupcakes, they are very good even without icing, and anyone with
>> a brain would know that the recipe means 2 eggs, just like anyone (even
>> you) would know that it's yellow cake and not *cale* too, but I'm
>> surprised you didn't attack the typo either. At any rate I like the
>> recipe a lot, and if you haven't tried it don't knock it with nonsense.

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> I have not made this recipe but I have made yellow cake from scratch and
> have seen many recipes. Most call for only the yolks of the eggs. I
> remember one calling for 12 yolks! Perhaps it is written that way so that
> the reader will know to use the whole egg as opposed to just the yolk?


That could very well be, I have old handwritten recipes where things are
misspelled and directions are often something like the way the eggs were
written in this one.

Cheri