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I had this at a friend's house at Thanksgiving 2009, this is truly delicious. Very rich, serves 8-10.   Thank you Laurie L of Sterling Heights, MI for the recipe….

Cranberry Crumb Pie

1/4 cup lemon juice
1 (14oz) can Sweetened Condensed Milk (like Eagle Brand)
3 T light brown sugar (although using this small amount I can't imagine dark brown would hurt)
1/3 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup butter, chilled and diced
1 (8oz) package cream cheese, softened
1 (16) oz can whole berry cranberry sauce
1 (9oz) unbaked pie crust (deep dish if purchasing)

1.  Preheat oven to 425 F
2. Bake crust 8 minutes.  Remove, and reduce oven temperature to 375 F
3. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy.  Mix in condensed milk until smooth, stir in lemon juice.  Place mixture in pie crust.

4. In a small bowl, mix one tablespoon brown sugar and cornstarch.  Mix in whole berry cranberry sauce.  Spoon mixture evenly over cream cheese mixture.
5. In a medium bowl, mix butter, flour, remaining brown sugar until crumbly.  Stir in walnuts.  Sprinkle evenly over pie.
6. Bake 45 minutes at 375 F or until bubbly and light browned.  Cool on a metal rack.  Serve at room temperature or chill as desired.

If Sicilia brand lemon juice is available in your area, I highly recommend it.  They also make lime juice and it tastes exactly like fresh.  Much much better than RealLemon/RealLime.

My very first residence on my own was in a very old, three story brick apt. building.  It had a Murphy bed, a Murphy ironing board and a Kelvinator refrigerator.  The "freezer" was so small, it held two ice trays, a chicken and maybe a couple 12 oz  cans of orange juice concentrate.  Still, I finally had complete privacy, away from parents and grandparents… a few choice guys made their way up three flights of stairs to my Murphy bed... And it was really nice to walk  1/2 a block to work, though I had a car.  Shirley N., the personnel secretary made this cake to welcome me to the office.  She was close to retirement and when I casually mentioned my tiny Kelvinator, she told me her first apt. was when she was a newlywed in the 1940's and it had central refrigeration.  Every Wed night, the apt. mgr. would turn off the compressor so that all the refrigerators in the building would begin to defrost.  So if you forgot to prepare, Shirley said, everything would be floating in the vegetable bins Thursday morning.

Anyway, here now is the recipe, and the name according to Shirley, is because it  is so good it is hard not to make a Pig of yourself.

Pig Eatin' Cake

1 box Duncan Hines butter  yellow cake mix (or cake mix of your choice)
4 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 (11oz) can mandarin oranges, undrained

Combine all ingredients.  Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees in a 9" x 13" pan (greased & floured).  Or divide batter into 2 - 9" pans.  Cool to room temperature.

TOPPING

13 oz Cool Whip
1 small can fruit cocktail, undrained
1 large can crushed pineapple, drained well
1 large box vanilla instant pudding

Mix, top (if using 9" layers, frost in between also)  Refrigerate cake.

Yes, I imagine cinnamon would be a great addition.  Did you use coconut, nuts too or neither?  I've only made it plain or with the peppermint patties.

I can remember the first time I had this - a elderly friend of the family introduced this to me.  I was visiting her while I was in college and she gave me voice lessons.  She lived in a very nice house but being disabled and a widow, she was extremely frugal.  Every penny counted, and she told me she made this during the Great Depression as a very good way to eat well for little money.

Scrambled Potatoes - in memory of Gwen D

4 or 5 medium potatoes, cubed - peeled or not, as you prefer
1 large onion, minced
4 to 6 eggs (4 if large, 6 if medium or small)
2 or 3 cloves garlic, minced
salt & pepper to taste

Add a few tablespoons of your favorite oil to the pan, add onion & garlic.  Fry for a few minutes.  Add potato cubes and fry until they are almost done.  Break the eggs over the potatoes and turn a few times to completely incorporate eggs into the hot potatoes.

If you do it right, a guest wouldn't even realize there are eggs in here.  I remember thinking how tasty this dish was and very surprised there were eggs in it!

You can also do it with any other vegetable of your choice.  I tried it with frozen green beans (make sure they're very hot before you add the eggs) and was very pleased.  ENJOY.

Well, I had no idea such a simple recipe would garner such enthusiasm.  But THANK YOU All so much!

Now Kinsey 6 I hate to burst your bubble, since you were so very nice and all , but the photo in the middle with the black handle is a Granny Fork, not a Foley fork.  The difference?  You can't tell from the photo, but the Granny Fork tines are rounded on the end; and each tine is flat as opposed to the Foley fork tines being the same length and each is tilted on the same angle.  Or maybe the Granny fork tines are the same length but they are bent away from the handle in an "arc"  Which I find scratches the dish and is much harder to use than a Foley Fork.  In other words, I have a Granny Fork and never use it.  So, since you found a photo of a Foley Fork, are they making them again.?  And you're on the right track with the wire whip, but a 1950's one wouldn't have near as many coils.  Thanks again.

I learned a lot about cooking from my maternal Grandparents.  In fact both Grandfathers were very macho - one was a carpenter and the other was a truck driver - and both were proud cooks in an era when most men didn't.  However, since everyone was still employed full time, I had to play around by myself in the kitchen.  For this, the 1950 Betty Crocker Cookbook proved invaluable.  There are literally hundreds of pictures to show you how to do almost anything, step by step.  As recently as 7 or 8 years ago, reprints of the spiral bound version were available through major book catalogues.  And just a couple weeks ago, I found a hardbound copy in a used book store for only $25.00.

NOTES about the cake:   I personally prefer using a good brand of all purpose flour, such as Gold Medal or Robin Hood.  Cake flour is too soft and the finished cake often falls apart very easily but to each his own. Since this cake has so few ingredients, it is recommended that you use top quality items, such as real vanilla. This cake has a very delicate flavor and as such I don't frost it. But if you must do something, Get a paper doily to fit the size pan you're using, sift powdered sugar over it and carefully  remove the doily. (the sugar goes through the holes in the paper and makes a pattern on the top of the cake)

Alas, wire whips are no longer avaliable - but to give you an idea of what one is, I'll try to describe it.  Very heavy wire was made into the outline of a large spoon.  Wires criss-crossed the opening and around the outer edge of the "spoon" was a coil of wire, stiff, but reminiscent of the coil on a martini strainer.  So you'll have to make do with a large whisk instead.  Another tool I discovered at Grandma's was the Foley Fork, no longer made either, but that is a story for another day….

So,.......Without further ado....

**Whipped Cream Cake

To avoid losing air volume in your cake, preheat oven and assemble all ingredients before starting….

1 and 1/2 cups whipping cream (30-35% butterfat) whipped stiff (don't overdo it or you'll have butter)
3 eggs (1/2 to 2/3 cup) beaten well with egg beater
2 cups sifted flour or 2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
1 and 1/2 cups sugar (I have made it with 1 cup and it's fine)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Add vanilla to beaten eggs, sitr gently.  Fold into the whipped cream.  Sift dry ingredients together.  Fold in to whipped cream mixture gently with wire whip.  Pour into two 9" pans that have been greased and floured.  (I personally grease & flour the sides and line the bottom with waxed paper)

Bake in Moderate oven (350F) for 30-35 minutes.  When done, cakes will pass the toothpick test and have medium golden color.**

I had this at a friend's house Easter Sunday 2010 - I asked for the recipe and while we were all watching The Sound of Music, she wrote it out longhand on little spiral notebook papers and stapled it together!  It is really good.  I type it here exactly how she wrote it and I will add my comments at the end.

2-1/2 pounds unpeeled Medium Potatoes
1 Cup chopped Red Bell Pepper
1 Cup sliced Pitted Black Olives
1 Cup frozen Peas, Thawed
1/2 Cup Mayonnaise
1 Tablespoon Dijon-Style Mustard
1/2 cup cider Vinegar
1 Teaspoon celery seeds
1 Tablespoons chopped Red onion
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1/8 Teaspoon Black Pepper
Leaf Lettuce, optional

1. Combine Potatoes with enough water to cover in large Sauce Pan.  Bring to a boil.  Boil until Tender, about 20 minutes.  Drain well, Cool until easily handled.

2. Peel and coarsely chop Potatoes.   Combine Potatoes, Bell Pepper, olives and Peas in large bowl. Mix gently.

3. Combine Mayonnaise and Dijon-Style Mustard in a small bowl.  Mix Well.  Stir in Vinegar & onion, celery seeds, Salt and pepper.

4. Add Mayonnaise Mixture and toss gently to coat.

5. Chill the Potato Salad covered in Refrigerator for 2 hours.

6. Line a Serving bowl with leaf lettuce.  Spoon the salad over the leaves and serve.

Sheila says:The salad tastes best after being chilled a few hours and the texture is best if served the same day it is made.  We make in the morning and serve it in the afternoon or evening.

MY COMMENTS - I would cut the vinegar down 2 or 3 tablespoons.  And leaf lettuce is really not optional.  If you go to all the work to make this from scratch, presentation is important.  It really looked nice on Sheila's serving table with the curly lettuce leaves all around the edges of the bowl and the salad heaped attractively in the middle.  I haven't made this yet myself, but I can picture using unpeeled (but well scrubbed) red potatoes.

For even more color, you could either replace 1/2 of the red pepper with green pepper or just add some green pepper to the recipe.

This is a really nice alternative to potato salads that are swimming in mayonnaise (like most storebought ones).  I really liked this also because you can taste all of the individual flavors.

An easier version of this is to thaw out a loaf of frozen bread dough (for those that don't have bread machines!)

Another variation which is truly fabulous:

Just before the pans go in the oven pour whipping cream over the top.  (1 8oz carton to 9 rolls).  Be sure to shake the carton well to dissolve the butterfat.  But not too much or you'll have whipped cream!    Anyway, as the cream makes its way down to the bottom of the pan, it takes some of the brown sugar with it and makes a wonderful caramelly layer at the bottom of the pan.

Italian Style Zucchini

1 T Vegetable oil
1 T chopped onion ( I personally use about 1/2 an onion in rings)
1 minced garlic clove
1/2 t rosemary
4 medium zucchini, washed, sliced between 1/4 & 1/2" thick (do not peel) - about 1 lb.
1 T slivered almonds          (for a nice variation, you can use half yellow summer squash of the same size)
1 t lemon juice

Warm oil in a skillet.  Add onion, garlic and rosemary, simmer until tender.  Add zucchini, 3 T water, cover.  Cook about 10 minutes or until just tender.  Sprinkle with lemon juice, almonds and serve immediately.

Cockeyed Cake

1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 t baking powder
5 T cooking oil
1 T Vinegar
1 t vanilla
1 cup cold water

In the sifter, put the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.  Sift directly into a 9" x 9" x 2" pan (brownie size square pan) that is greased and floured.

Make three grooves, into one pour oil, next one put vinegar, next one put vanilla.  Pour cold water over all.  Beat with spoon until nearly smooth and you can't see any flour.

Bake 30 Minutes at 350F.

Frosting Options

Put 6 or 8 peppermint patties on the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven.  When melted, spread evenly on cake.

Maggie's Sugar Topping

Mix together 4 T soft butter, 2/3 cup brown sugar, 2 T cream or milk, 1/4 cup chopped nuts or coconut or both.

Spread on cake (the cake doesn't need to be completely cool just cool enough that you don't tear it up trying to spread the topping on) and bake about 5 minutes or until frosting bubbles.

Jelly frosting

Take 1/2 cup jelly of your choice.  Put in top part of double boiler, (which has boiling water in the bottom part) add one unbeaten egg white and a pinch of salt.  Beat until jelly disappears.  Remove from heat.  Beat until stiff peaks form, frost cake.

Spinach Surpise

1 10oz package frozen spinach (thawed & drained)
1/4 cup chopped onion
4 T butter or oil of choice
1/2 cup sour cream or plain yogurt
1 t vinegar

Melt butter, cook onion for 10 minutes.  Add spinach, stir until hot.  Add sour cream & vinegar.  Stir and serve.

Company Carrots

4 - 6 carrots, peeled and cut into strips, boil 10 minutes

3 T butter or margarine
2 T sugar (plain sugar will work with orange juice but brown sugar is better if you have it)
1/2 t paprika (the recipe is perfectly fine if you don't have this)
2 T sugar
Juice of half a lemon or 4 T orange juice

Melt butter, add remaining ingredients, stir well.  Add drained carrots, saute 10 minutes so all carrots get well acquainted with the sauce.

Rosy Rice:  Substitute tomato juice or V-8 for half of the cooking water when making rice.

Honey Lime Dressing simply thin honey with fresh or bottled lime juice. Better than you'd think!

Quickie appetizers long toothpicks or plastic swords - two cheeses of different colors, seedless grapes of two different colors.  Cut cheese into cubes, put one of each color on a stick, alternating cheese with grape.

Grape Cream To 4 cups of seedless grapes add 1 cup sour cream and 1/2 cup brown sugar.  Chill for at least two hours, serve in sherbet glasses.

Baked Tomato SlicesCrumble one or two large biscuits of shredded wheat.  Slice 3 tomatoes (1 lb) 1/4" thick, bread with wheat crumbs.  Place on oiled baking sheet and sprinkle each with 1/2 tsp thyme (or spice of your choice - garlic, Vegit etc.), 1/8 tsp black pepper, pinch of sugar.  Bake 15-30 minutes at 350F

Fake Hollandaise Sauce 3/4 cup mayonnaise, 1/3 cup milk, salt, pepper and 1 tsp lemon juice.  Cook milk and mayonnaise in double boiler 5 minutes, stirring constantly.  Add s, p and juice, stir one minute.  Serve on fish, or on sunny side up eggs (Eggs Benedict) etc.

There was a little restaurant very near a place I used to work - it didn't even have a name, just a big sign that said "Restaurant".  The neighborhood people called it "The Kangaroo."  I also happened to live a block away also.  Anyway, they cooked everything from scratch and I asked this ancient waitress the secret to their hashbrowns and she told me.

Perfect Hashbrowns

Ingredients - potatoes, washed, optional peeled, canola or corn oil, chopped onions (optional)

In a heavy skillet (I prefer nonstick so you can use less oil) put a couple tablespoons of oil and start the flame on high.  I never peel potatoes because that is where most of the vitamins are and you don't even notice the peel.

Using a box grater, shred the potatoes directly into the hot pan.  Or if you are really fast, shred onto a plate and put directly into hot pan.  One large potato is usually sufficient.   Spread into one even layer.  Add onions if using at this point.  Sprinkle a few tablespoons of water on top and cover with a lid. If the pan is hot enough, you should get steam almost immediately.   Lower the flame to medium-high, cook 10 minutes.   DO NOT TURN.  Remove lid.   Cook about five more minutes.  Lift an edge to see if the hash browns are done to your liking, if so turn and brown the other side.  You can drizzle a little tiny bit more oil on before turning if you want the other side really brown.

The trick is to only turn the hash browns one time.

Two films in particular "Seance Particulares" and "Le Coursier"  both films have many of what I call "incomplete" scenes.

Le Coursier:  Film opens with the main star, the cyclist, going to a masseuse.  The masseuse's crotch is in the cyclist's face while the masseuse leans over and massages his back (cyclist is on his stomach).  Cyclist starts to blow masseuse for just a few seconds, scene cuts to the lobby where a guy is jacking off, for just a few seconds.  No one cums and a completely unrelated scene starts.

Possibly the oddest sequence is in the laundromat.  There is the cyclist, a dark skinned guy and a white guy.  The latter two start getting it on, the cyclist joins in, (wow they actually  all cum.) Then white guy leaves, cyclist and dark skinned guy are still completely nude, cyclist starts to blow dark skinned guy for just a few seconds. (neither of them cum)  Instantly the scene changes, cyclist is completely clothed, and walking out the door of the laundromat. ???

There is another scene in the movie where one guy is applying dildos to other guys, he neither sucks nor gets sucked, fucks nor gets fucked yet is completely nude for the whole scene.  At the end he is erect and jacking off for a couple seconds, again, no cumshot.  Why?

After all this, I will say the majority of Cadinot films are extremely hot, good looking guys etc. so I don't want to give this impression I don't like them because I do.

THANKS

It has been a long time since I saw Seance Particulare and I don't think that was the title of it - at least here, guys are screwing and sucking in a public park and stop the action because the police are raiding it but here too there are are a few other scenes which are oddly incomplete as described in Le Coursier.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

These two Gay guys decided they wanted a child, but they really wanted it to be theirs, look like them, etc. so they jacked off into a cup and commissioned a surrogate. When the time came, they visited the hospital nursery to see their newborn son. They bragged to the nurse how well behaved and quiet their son was compared to all the other babies. "That's true he's not fussing now," said the nurse, "but you should see him throw a tantrum when we take the pacifier out of his ass!"

Joe:  Did you know 5% of men are born Gay?

Moe:  Yeah, and the other 5% are sucked into it!

Bill:  What is 12 inches long and hangs in front of an asshole?

Phil:  George W. Bush's tie!

Superman was flying around Metropolis one day and noticed Wonderwoman sunning herself nude on top of one of the skyscrapers.  He decided he would swoop in at lightning speed and "get some."  After he was finished, he asked her how it was?  "Okay, I guess, but I don't think the Invisible Man will walk for a week!"

How do you tell the difference between Snowmen & Snowwomen?  Snowballs!

Q: Three gay men leave San Francisco on a road trip to New Orleans heading southeast at 60 miles per hour. At the same time, three lesbians leave New Orleans on a road trip to San Francisco heading northwest at 60 miles per hour. Which group will reach their destination first?

A: The gay men. … Why? Because they've already got their shit packed.

A man and woman are asleep in bed, when their house in broken into, The thief ties both spouses to a chair. He goes to rummage through their house. The husband whispers to the wife "he said he just got out of a long prison stint when he was tying me up. I don't want to get killed, so if he wants sex, do whatever he wants."

"I'm glad you feel that way, dear," says the wife "because when he was tying me up, he said you had a really cute ass!"

Fred:  Who is the most popular guy at the office?
Ned:  The guy who can carry a dozen doughnuts AND a pot of coffee in each hand!

Dan:  How do you make a Gay decorator scream twice?
Stan: Fuck him hard and then wipe your dick on his curtains!

From the sick joke department:

The lawyer, the priest and the social worker are on the Titanic. The social worker is going around yelling "save the children, save the children...." The lawyer says "fuck the children" and the priest says "do you think we have time?"

A young army private is home on leave. He is talking to his dad about his experience at jump school while learning to be a paratrooper.
"Dad" he says, "on my first jump, I froze up at the door on the plane. A big black sergeant standing behind me told me that if I didn’t jump, he was gonna cram about 12 inches of his dick up my ass."
"Well did you jump?" asks his dad.
"Just a little at first" answered the boy.

I'm surprised no one answered this in all this time!  Any of the Slurpin' Jizz movies, #3 is my favorite.  Damon Dogg eats cum like no one I've ever seen but he is not the best looking guy in the world, still, anything he's in qualifies as a c/e movie.  Fagwagon was pretty good too.  I've seen a lot of the "Detroit Cum, Milwaukee Cum, etc. movies."  They usually have a little c/e but it is not the best or the if the guy does eat it, it seems like the guy cumming doesn't shoot but a drop or two.

I don't know where you come up with these long lists of jokes, but they're pretty good.

And I'll certainly go along with Santa being Polish!    Bozego Nardozenia!

While this is of course informative and "factual" as far as what the Bible really says, I would point out that the real Christee Crazees will tell you if you argue too much that this is all Old Testament stuff and Christians are bound by the New Testament.

As much as I can't stand Dr. Laura, I don't think she ever claimed to be a theologian.  What bothers me is the REAL theologians who know better don't come clean.  Like the bit about the two fibers and two crops. Or the real fact that an abomination meant a ritual impurity NOT a mortal sin.  Anway, nobody follows  ALL this stuff anymore, not even Orthodox Jews unless they are SUPER DUPER conservative and they are getting pretty rare these days.

A very good book for those interested is "What the Bible REALLY says about Homosexuality", I forget the author's name just now but he is or was a Catholic priest.  The only point in the whole book I may have a difference with him is with the Sodom story.  If one thinks about today, how you usually know your neighbors, if you live in a stable neighborhood; most people would notice a neighbor constantly having strangers over.  That is what Lot did, and he himself was an outsider.  A parallel might be an Arabic family, in native dress, speaking arabic in an all White neighborhood having lots of out of town guests would attract attention.  So the townsmen wanted to KNOW (not in a sexual sense in my view, and statistically in the Bible "know" meant sex only a few times out of hundreds) what was going on at Lot's house. And of course since protecting males from harm, even though they were strangers was much more important than your own daughters, Lot offered them sexually to distract the Townspeople.  So it wasn't even a homosexual story at all.