Wisdom From Grandma

This recipe has a bit of a scandal attached to it. Nan says it was actually her recipe, but Grandma borrowed the recipe and took the cake to a party. From then on, everyone considered it to be Grandma’s Sugar Plum Spice Cake recipe. I guess they thought Nan was too young to come up with something this delicious!

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup of shortning
2 1/2 Cups of cake flour
1 Teaspoon baking powder
1 Teaspoon baking soda
3/4 Teaspoon salt
3/4 Teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 Teaspoon cloves
1 Cup granulated sugar
2/3 Cup brown sugar packed down

1 Cup plus 2 tablespoons of sour milk
2 Eggs
1 Cup of cooked prunes
Frosting

Instructions:

1. Soften shortning.
2. Sift in dry ingredients.
3. Stir in brown sugar.
4. Add 1 cup of milk and beat the mixture for one to two minutes.
5. Add eggs and the two remaining tablespoons of sour milk.
6. Beat the mixture for an additional minute.
7. Pour mixture into ban and bake at 375 degrees for approximately 25 minutes. Test doneness with a toothpick.
8. Let cake cool and then frost with your favorite frosting.
9. Cut your prunes into small pieces and spread them on top of the cake.

(For an extra special cake, bake several small round cakes instead of one large one and create a layer cake, with the frosting and prunes between each layer.)

Ingredients:

5 tablespoons of butter
1 ¼ cups of sugar
3 ½ squares of baking chocolate
3 eggs
1 teaspoonful of vanilla
¾ a cup of milk
3 ½ level teaspoonfuls of baking powder
1 ½ cups of sifted flour

Instructions:

1. Melt chocolate.
2. Cream the butter, sugar and chocolate together.
3. Add your eggs and vanilla, and beat together until they are very smooth.
4. Sift your baking powder with one-half a cup of the flour and then combine with your blended ingredients.
5. Add the milk and the remaining flour, gradually, until the mixture stiff enough to drop from a spoon.
6. Beat your mixture until it is smooth.
7. Bake in a 350 degree oven until a toothpick comes out clean.

Grandma’s recipe for shrimp is so simple and easy, but they taste so good. Almost everyone who eats these shrimp asks for the recipe.

1 teaspoon of salt

Enough water to cover shrimp

a few celery tops with leaves

1 tablespoon of pickling spice

Combine above ingredients and boil until the shrimp turns pink.

Drain.