Official National Applesauce Cake Day

"Grandma"

Jennifer

Between the sticky fingers and messy hair,

You really love and truly care.

You have always been there through everything,

Remember when we all broke your swing.

You cook the best food for us to eat,

Especially fresh applesauce cake, 

Oh what a treat.

We all helped plant seeds in a row,

To sit on the spring and watch them all grow.

Now we pick your roses to bring them to you,

So you can see how much it means to us too.

We all line up in a perfect little row,

So you get to see each one of us grow.

You are strong, beautiful, peaceful and serene,

You deserve to live in paradise and see finer things.

Blessed beautiful grandma so collected and confident,

We can’t imagine a gift greater than you, your love is heaven sent

 

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY
• GARDEN UPDATE
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• GARDEN GAMES
• GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0031 OLIVIA WALTON'S APPLESAUCE CAKE WITH WHISKEY FROSTING
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY

GARDEN UPDATE
2pm and 87F. Thank the Lord above for A/C, how do people do without it?


Hubby saw a carpenter bee this morning that was as big as a baby bird!


Bindi is working serenely away in her corner. Another 3 weeks and she will be ready for our first attempts! Starbucks sure is wonderful and just loves to give me free bags of grounds. Aunt Ruth is trying hops in her composting, can't wait to see how that turns out! We have been religiously adding kitchen waste, torn up toilet paper and paper towel rolls and coffee grounds all along.
GARDEN GIGGLE

When I was a kid, we didn't have padding under our jungle gyms...we had rocks.

We didn't have safety belts on our swings. The whole goal was to get as high as you could, then launch yourself into the stratosphere.

We rode our bikes without helmets. Without shoes. Sometimes without clothes.

We played in creeks, ran through abandoned houses, went dam sliding, jumped on trampolines, ran our go-karts right into oncoming traffic, and played with BB guns, with half the time spent pumping them up 'cause we heard you could take out an eye.

We parachuted out of trees with bedsheets, threw lawn darts at each other, and had no sunblock, so we got burned to a crisp. Summer officially started when the first kid turned as red as a thermometer. Then we had peeling parties.

We blew up Barbie dolls with M-80s, we ran with scissors and our Halloween costumes were made from asbestos..

But, for our safety, our moms made us wait an hour after we ate to go swimming.

Robert G. Lee

FAUNA

GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0031 OLIVIA WALTON'S APPLESAUCE CAKE WITH WHISKEY FROSTING
Bet you didn't know that today was officially National Applesauce Cake Day!!!(It's a real holiday). So, of course, we had to make some!

The exact origin of applesauce cake is unknown, though some speculate it developed during the time of the first World War when sugar was scarce, and it was “patriotic” to use less of it, along with less butter and fewer eggs (this recipe only uses two). Health-conscious folks like the idea of substituting applesauce for some of the shortening. It’s easy to see how this cake might have been a staple during the Depression years.

Olivia Walton, the matriarch of the Walton TV clan, was famous for her applesauce cake. Though she and Grandma spend a lot of time in the kitchen serving up good old-fashioned country dishes like fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits, beef stew, fresh corn on the cob, scrambled eggs, bacon and heavenly peach pie, it is her applesauce cake that holds special favor. Whenever there is something to celebrate, Olivia makes an applesauce cake, and it seems to work wonders with anyone needing a good serving of down home comfort. She made a special frosting after her son came home from the Baldwin sisters with the "recipe". Both recipes follow (for the cake and frosting, I mean !)

OLIVIA WALTON'S APPLESAUCE CAKE

You Will Need:

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar
2 cups unsweetened applesauce
2 cups light raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp baking soda
3-1/2 cups flour (sifted)
2 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp cloves
2 tsp nutmeg
pinch of salt

Instructions:
Sift together: Flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Take 1/2 cup of flour mixture and stir into the nuts and raisins. Set both aside.

Cream butter until whipped soft. Add sugar a little at a time until mixture is smooth. Beat in eggs vigorously. Alternately stir in flour mixture and applesauce. When all mixed together, add nuts and raisins and mix well.

Pour batter into a well-greased cake mold. Bake in pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for one hour. Cool ten minutes, then turn out on cake rack. Frost with Whiskey Frosting when cake is cool.

WHISKEY FROSTING

1/4 cup butter
1 T cream
Pinch of salt
2 cups powdered sugar
2 T whiskey

Cream butter, add sugar and salt, then cream and whiskey. Whip until smooth. Frost cake.

Sit a spell and have a piece before you rush off to your other business: Happy National Applesauce Cake Day!!
(And, “Goodnight, Olivia . . . Good Night, JohnBoy)

 GARDEN GAMES

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