[626] in Humor
HUMOR: Best Ever Rum Cake
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Mon Dec 19 23:13:12 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 23:10:18 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 94 17:17:28 PST
From: Connie_Kleinjans@Novell.COM (Connie Kleinjans)
A classic.
BEST EVER RUM CAKE
1 or 2 quarts Rum Baking Powder
1 cup butter 1 tsp. soda
1 tsp sugar Lemon juice
1 cup dried fruit Brown sugar
Nuts
Before you start, sample the Rum to check for quality. Good, isn't it?
Now go ahead. Select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc.
Check the Rum again. It must be just right. To be sure Rum is of the
highest quality, pour 1 level cup of Rum into a glass, and drink it as
fast as you can. Repeat.
With an electricc mixer, beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add 1 seaspoon of thugar and beat again.
Meanwhile, make sure that the Rum is of the fines quality. Try another
cup. Open second Quart if necessary.
Add 2 arge leggs, 2 cups fried druit, and beat till high. If druit gets
stuck in beaters, just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the Rum again, checcking for tonscisticity.
Next sift 3 cups of pepper or salt (it really doesn't matter).
Sample the Rum again.
Sift 1/2 pint of lemon juice. Fold in chopped butter and strained nuts.
Add 1 babblespoon of brown thugar, or whatever color you can find.
Wix wel.
Grease over the turn cake pan to 350 gredees. Now pour the whole mess
int the coven and ake.
Check the Rum again, and bo to ged.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
