I’m calling Photoshop on this one. The paws are blurred where they contact the man, that’s a common way to eliminate sharp demarcations from the copy/paste. I didn’t mean to find fault, but it looked a bit off at my first glance.
I dunno…. I searched it, and found a couple of pictures of a fellow named Larry George, from Minnesota.
He was was a garage owner and inventor, who later started raising border collies like this one.
This is from his 2011 obituary:
“He spent years training and showing his dogs, was in local and nationwide parades and gave dog shows including the Late Show with David Letterman. He had generations of black and white border collies that he trained over the years.”
So is the picture below, and the other I found looks quite similar.
I can’t swear to this being the same man…. But what are the odds?
Where does the leash go? Is that a leash on the collar on the top photo? I am getting a wishy-wash feeling about this one.
I really like the story so i want it to be real! 😀
The thing that looks like a leash in the first picture, I believe is a fancy high-tension power line tower. I think it supports the wires seen coming across.
I don’t doubt the story or the second picture. If the dog wasn’t added in the first picture, then someone played around with increasing contrast or sharpness in selected areas. Perhaps they wanted the dog a bit more obvious.
Not only colorized, but it looks like it came from one of those websites where they use computer enhancement to make vintage photos look like modern people.
I’m not sure why they gave him red hair.
Custer was famous for his blond hair and mustache.
In some b/w photos it looks dark.
Some shades of blond do look quite a bit lighter or darker in different light, but I’ve never heard him described as a redhead.
I was kinda wondering if that was one of ’em reclining in a deck chair with a frosty one behind the bow machine gunner. Talk about coolness under fire!
I doubt it cos I’ve looked on two Android devices with different browsers, and AFAIK Steve is on a PC, and Nighthawks on a Mac, and we all had the problem.
I’m thinking it’s intermittent and we may have looked at different times.
it is indeed a Postimage problem….or a WordPress interpreting problem–in any case, last night Postimage postings showed up not at all….I couldn’t even delete the no shows….then this morning, they showed up
You mean I got them right? I couldn’t find two sources that agreed on who was who! (I knew Sean Connery and Charles Martin Smith, but was hazy on who the others were.)
The time has come to consider a replacement for my 2008 Mazda 3 hatchback. I can’t fit anything much bigger in the garage. I don’t want anything super tiny as I’d like to survive an accident. I’m considering a hybrid hatchback and looking at the following (in no particular order).
Toyota Prius
Honda Civic Hatchback Hybrid
Kia Niro Hybrid
if anyone has any personal experience, good or bad, I’d like to hear from you.
I own a 2017 Prius V. It’s great and is the same size as a RAV4. When Toyota offered a hybrid version of the RAV4, Prius V sales dropped and they discontinued the Prius V. I’m temporarily holding on to a friends regular Prius (I don’t know the year, but it’s older than mine) and it’s like driving a regular car.
If you like a little bit of size, I would suggest the Rav4 as far as a Toyota goes.
If Ford Escape has a Hybrid type, it might be worth looking into also.
I have the Ford C-Max hybrid and love it. Not only does it still run great at 12yo, it still looks great too (we are known here for how much road salt we use in the winter). The fuel economy has averaged over 40mpg every year since I got it. I believe the hybrid Escape replaced the C-Max in the Ford line-up. As a plus, it was very reasonably priced.
I had/am having one of my vertigo attacks this afternoon, just after dinner. I took the pups out to P and run and it hit as i was standing in the door. First one since retiring.
Kiki knew right away that something was wrong and laid next to me just as soon as i was down in bed. Buddy was clueless. Fan was trying to compete with Kiki. I think that she knew something different was up.
Now in siting up in bed, so i’m getting better.
Hey! I got ran, nothing unusual about that but i also have had a couple flashes of lightning. That’s rare on the coast here. If there is anything at all that i miss about Lake Havasu City is siting, looking across the valley and watching the lightning storms.
Working on it. Still gotta get the beasts out one more time. I’ll stay in the garage while they roam. I have a folding chair there for just this occasion.
I had something similar a week ago. I was fine until I opened the car door, then my head felt weird. It took a moment to realize my sinuses were suddenly reacting to something and I quickly closed the door. Looking around I saw a birch tree had started opening up right in front of me. I don’t get along with birch trees this time of year.
I’m not suggesting your issue may be allergy caused. I’ve had vertigo episodes my self and I’ve found that for me they were caused by something or a number of somethings I wasn’t doing to take care of myself. It’s been from lack of sleep (not much now that I’m retired also), not eating or hydrating enough and tension for the most part.
Oof! That’ll put a crimp in your style, and a blight on your mojo.
The cat, being the oldest and having seniority, is also the wisest. Hence, she immediately senses your distress and stays with you in case she is needed. She may not be outwardly empathetic, but she loves you all the same. Fawn is going to have to figure out that when you lie down, there are at least two sides of you. She & Kiki can each take a side, and let Kiki have first choice cause of the whole seniority thing. Buddy was clueless because, as you have told us in tale and verse, Buddy IS clueless. It’s one of his most endearing qualities.
Take care of yourself. Make sure you always have a way to contact help.
Phone is always at hand. As a caregiver i pushed my clients to keep their phone nearby always. I decided that it was good advice for me too. One of my friends has a small purse just for her phone and she wears it around her neck all the time. She can’t afford a fall monitor.
Okay, I don’t like talking about my medical stuff here… but I have to tell you…
I’ve had several vertigo attacks in the not terribly distant past that sent me to the ER…
I remember maybe the worst time, sitting on the edge of my bed holding on for dear life while the room whirled at high speed around me.
I think my brain knew it had to be an illusion, but my body was convinced I’d be thrown off any second by centrifugal force.
I’d managed to call a friend for a ride… He had trouble prying my hands from their grip on the bedding. Then I had a very hard time walking to his car, leaning on or grabbing things along the way.
I’m not going to talk about its effect on my stomach, but it was horrible.
At the hospital I fainted, and woke up on a gurney.
…
I’m not going to say I’m convinced it’ll never happen again… But I’ve learned some strategies. It’s been years now since the ER.
First… I’ve said it before: MECLIZINE!! At the first sign.
Now if I’m at all dizzy I look up… If the ceiling or the sky is holding still, I know I’ll be okay. But if I see any motion: Meclizine
And get your doctor to show you, if you don’t know, how to slowly lean side to side to help settle the ear fluid.
Those two things plus lying down usually make it go away. Sometimes I have to sleep for a little while.
Oh .. and if I’m even a little dizzy, I drink water and eat a small amount of something salty. Sometimes that’s all it takes.
…
BTW, a doctor had recommended the Meclizine years before, so I had it, but sometimes it was in another room. Now I keep some everywhere, even though I live in a tiny place.
It’s cheap enough in any drugstore, but if you have Costco, it’s ridiculously cheap. For about $6 I could never use it all before it expires.
So I can stash some wherever I want and give some away…. Every few years I replace it.
I discovered that pretty much all they did in the ER anyway was give me Meclizine, and sometimes IV saline, and keep me lying down.
I posted this on March 28. 2023, but if you didn’t copy it then, you can now.
I’ve made this for birthday cakes.
From: .
The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook (Reader’s Digest Edition) .
By: Zoe Coulson.
Published by: Hearst Books New York (1980) .
ISBN 0-87851=037-0.
“Black Forest Cherry Torte”
2 15- or 16- ounce cans
pitted tart cherries, drained
about 1/2 cup kirsch
(cherry-flavor
brandy)
Chocolate Cake Layers
(page xxx / see recipe and second spoiler box below)
2 cups heavy or whipping cream (whipping cream 35% milk fat / heavy cream > than 35% milk fat )
1/2 cup confectioners’
sugar
1 square semisweet
chocolate, grated
12 maraschino cherries,
well drained
2 squares semisweet
chocolate made into
chocolate curls
Begin 4 hrs ahead
12 servings
Torte instructions
1 In medium bowl, place
cherries and 1/3 cup
kirsch; leave at room tem-
perature for 2 1/2 hours,
stirring occasionally.
2 Meanwhile, preheat
oven to 350° F. Prepare
cake layers as recipe directs
but pour batter into 3
greased and floured 9-inch
round cake pans. Stagger
pans on 2 oven racks so no
pan is directly above
another. Bake cake layers
20 to 25 minutes until
toothpick inserted in cen-
ter comes out clean. Cool
on wire racks 10 minutes;
remove layers from pans
and cool them com-
pletely on wire racks,
about 2 hours.
3 With fork, prick well
top of each cake, then
drain cherries well and
sprinkle cherry liquid
over cake layers.
4 In small bowl with
mixer at medium
beat heavy or whip-
ping cream, confectioners’
sugar and 2 tablespoons
kirsch until the cream
stands in stiff peaks.
5 Place one cake layer on
cake platter. Spread
with one-fourth whipped-
cream mixture; top
with half of cherries.
6 Repeat with the second
layer and then top with
the third one.
7 Frost side of cake with
half of remaining
whipped-cream mixture.
8 With spoon, gently
press grated semisweet
chocolate onto whipped-
cream mixture all around
the side of the cake.
9 Garnish with dollops of
remaining whipped-
cream mixture; top each
dollop with a drained
maraschino cherry
10 Pile chocolate curls
in center; keep
refrigerated. (Chocolate
curls may turn slightly
gray in color.
Cake layers derived from “Chocolate Cupcakes“recipe
Begin early in day / 8 to 10 servings
2 cups cake flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cups cocoa
1 1/4 cups milk [whole milk — (3.25% milk fat)]
3/4 cups shortening
3 eggs
1 1/4 teaspoons baking
soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
extract (real, not artificial)
1/2 tablespoon double-
acting baking
powder
Coffee Cream-
Cheese Frosting
or Fluffy Boiled Frosting
(page xxx / not needed so not listed / if you want, them I’ll post them)
‘CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES / CAKE’ instructions (they’re at the bottom).
1
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Place liners in 2 dozen
3-inch muffin-pan cups or
grease and flour cups.
2
Into large bowl,
measure all cupcake in-
gredients except frosting.
3 With mixer at low
speed, beat until well
mixed, constantly scraping
bowl; at high speed, beat 5
minutes, scraping the
bowl occasionally.
4 Spoon into muffin-pan
cups, filling each half
full. Bake 20 minutes or
until toothpick inserted in
center of one comes out
clean and dry.
5 Cool in pans on wire
racks 10 minutes, then
remove from pans and
cool completely on racks.
6 Prepare frosting then
dip tops of cupcakes
into frosting and turn
slightly to coat (again, not needed).
CHOCOLATE CAKE: Preheat oven to 350° F.
Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans. Prepare batter as above but pour into pans; bake 30 to 35
minutes. Cool layers in pans on wire racks 10 minutes;
remove from pans and cool completely on racks. Fill
and frost the chocolate cake layers with your choice
of either…. (frosting choices not needed here)
Notes from me:
Sort out the instructions between the three recipes involved. It’s easily done, but it’s a bit of an annoyance.
Editorial comment:
Kirsch is not quite as bad as Everclear, but it’s getting down to Everclear’s level when it comes to potability.
I have found a new comic. New to me.
It was mentioned on the new comic on GoComics, Fur Babies.
Keven & Kell. Its by Bill Holbrook. A name i know.
So how did i miss a comic about bunnies and dogs?
.
The crested blue-eyed red-breasted bluebird of happiness!
Real! He is handsome!
,
Working dogs…
Nice hoodie!
I’m calling Photoshop on this one. The paws are blurred where they contact the man, that’s a common way to eliminate sharp demarcations from the copy/paste. I didn’t mean to find fault, but it looked a bit off at my first glance.
Fun shot though! 🙂
I dunno…. I searched it, and found a couple of pictures of a fellow named Larry George, from Minnesota.
He was was a garage owner and inventor, who later started raising border collies like this one.
This is from his 2011 obituary:
“He spent years training and showing his dogs, was in local and nationwide parades and gave dog shows including the Late Show with David Letterman. He had generations of black and white border collies that he trained over the years.”
So is the picture below, and the other I found looks quite similar.
I can’t swear to this being the same man…. But what are the odds?
Looks like the same guy, and the second image looks real, but that first one still looks off to me. The dog seems to “pop” in the first image.
Where does the leash go? Is that a leash on the collar on the top photo? I am getting a wishy-wash feeling about this one.
I really like the story so i want it to be real! 😀
The obit and the 2nd picture are from a genuine Minnesota newspaper.
The other pic I found was in a different newspaper… It was in bad condition so I chose this one.
I don’t think small town newspapers have the desire or the means to fake a story about a local person and run a photoshopped picture.
Besides, I just don’t think it’s a good enough photo for someone to have put hours into.
The dog obviously doesn’t need a leash but it might be a law… I don’t see one in either picture, and didn’t see any mention of it, so I wouldn’t know.
The thing sticking up behind the dog’s head in the top one looks to me like a street lamp or a crane, but it’s awfully tall.
I totally vote real… And the top one too if it’s the same guy, and I’m pretty convinced it is.
Leash? Isn’t that a crane on a distant building?
I was just posting the same.
The thing that looks like a leash in the first picture, I believe is a fancy high-tension power line tower. I think it supports the wires seen coming across.
I don’t doubt the story or the second picture. If the dog wasn’t added in the first picture, then someone played around with increasing contrast or sharpness in selected areas. Perhaps they wanted the dog a bit more obvious.
I just think the first is simply a better or more professional photograph. Maybe taken for a magazine.
Possibly filtered or processed for brighter color and contrast, and/or with great quality color film.
It’s amazing what you can do in processing.
,,
,,,,
The only one I have (after restarting today’s posting) is the colourized version of George Custer.
The next three below him are “comment image.”
Same
Not only colorized, but it looks like it came from one of those websites where they use computer enhancement to make vintage photos look like modern people.
I’m not sure why they gave him red hair.
Custer was famous for his blond hair and mustache.
In some b/w photos it looks dark.
Some shades of blond do look quite a bit lighter or darker in different light, but I’ve never heard him described as a redhead.
He’s 19 or 20 here, depending on the month.
December, 1962
19?
Nighthawks did some editing which took away the “referral line” (for lack of a better term) back to the issue of “Male” magazine above.
I think the confusion might be that the indenting of comments isn’t clear on these pages.
Maybe Happy³ thought, as I did for a moment, that you were referring to the picture of Custer.
Sorry, but I don’t understand your reply to him about a referral line(?)…. but I did realize that you were talking about the magazine…
And yes, I saw it on eBay… Volume 12, Number 12, December 1962.
$18 with free shipping…
Unless you prefer the listing for $22 plus $7.25 shipping, but I didn’t compare the conditions.
I’m telling the price because you always do… though I don’t care what it costs cos I wouldn’t care to own it. 😁
The attachment, I hope, makes it clear.
doesn’t ANYbody want to read about the island nymphs?
you know, the ones who lived with torpedo boat 629
I’m kinda interested in the brassier squad.
Can’t pass up a chance to see a bunch of cops in drag. 😀
I was kinda wondering if that was one of ’em reclining in a deck chair with a frosty one behind the bow machine gunner. Talk about coolness under fire!
Yup! She is…
Ive seen better fractal stuff.
Like Steve and Alexi, I can’t see any of the last three, though if yesterday is any indication, they may come and go at different times.
I posted yesterday that it seems to be a problem only with PostImage URLs, and only from the last few days.
Ones from before that are fine.
It doesn’t make sense to me, cos I’d think they would all either work or not, and not fail selectively.
If it’s a PostImage glitch, I hope they fix it soon!
I can see all of the images, I wonder if it’s a Browser/OS issue, I’m currently on Edge on Win11 at the moment.
I doubt it cos I’ve looked on two Android devices with different browsers, and AFAIK Steve is on a PC, and Nighthawks on a Mac, and we all had the problem.
I’m thinking it’s intermittent and we may have looked at different times.
I havn’t had any problems seeing anything.
Oops it was Steve.
,,,
I like all the sharks on top of the buildings…
Nighthawks… Did you just post this cos I teased about narrow streets with crazy skies? LOL!
it is indeed a Postimage problem….or a WordPress interpreting problem–in any case, last night Postimage postings showed up not at all….I couldn’t even delete the no shows….then this morning, they showed up
.,,
The movie trailer.
And it was the little guy who finally caught him!
Sheesh..
You mean I got them right? I couldn’t find two sources that agreed on who was who! (I knew Sean Connery and Charles Martin Smith, but was hazy on who the others were.)
Yes!
If I’m uncertain, I check Wikipedia or IMdB for the cast, cos image search gets so iffy.
I know the flick. I liked it, but it wasn’t big at the box-office.
…..
How it’s done I don’t know, but I know it’s done.
Here’s a longer version.
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/46583/skiing-emu-awesome
Quite emusing.
Boo! 😀
I should ostrichize you for that.
You too! 😀
I would just flip you… um… never mind
I’ll try to behave.
Don’t get your tail feathers in a twist 😁
,.,.
How do people breath?
Nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. I feel the same way about the SW deserts; beautiful to visit but after a week I miss green.
I need to stand under breathing trees.
see the face?
Thanks for the hint, it worked.
Yes! Yes i can!
Amazing!
At first I couldn’t see it, now I can’t not.
Must be computer aided, cos it’s like an actual photograph, not just pareidolia.
And yeah, I still see it best with my tablet at arms length.
Took me a while
It was only because I was doing a copy/paste to zoom in on the fruit that it jumped out at me!
The time has come to consider a replacement for my 2008 Mazda 3 hatchback. I can’t fit anything much bigger in the garage. I don’t want anything super tiny as I’d like to survive an accident. I’m considering a hybrid hatchback and looking at the following (in no particular order).
Toyota Prius
Honda Civic Hatchback Hybrid
Kia Niro Hybrid
if anyone has any personal experience, good or bad, I’d like to hear from you.
Thanks in advance for any info.
I own a 2017 Prius V. It’s great and is the same size as a RAV4. When Toyota offered a hybrid version of the RAV4, Prius V sales dropped and they discontinued the Prius V. I’m temporarily holding on to a friends regular Prius (I don’t know the year, but it’s older than mine) and it’s like driving a regular car.
If you like a little bit of size, I would suggest the Rav4 as far as a Toyota goes.
If Ford Escape has a Hybrid type, it might be worth looking into also.
I would avoid the Prius C, it’s way too small.
I loved my Prius. I wish i still had it. Get the plug in hybrid if you can. Best of both worlds.
I have the Ford C-Max hybrid and love it. Not only does it still run great at 12yo, it still looks great too (we are known here for how much road salt we use in the winter). The fuel economy has averaged over 40mpg every year since I got it. I believe the hybrid Escape replaced the C-Max in the Ford line-up. As a plus, it was very reasonably priced.
I would love to have any hybrid again. Or a straight plug in. But i would choose the plug in hybrid first because of my experience with both.
.,.,not too hard
Yup. Peasey!
Got.
I just looked for the speedy one.
,,,.,,
“Dune” part two.
The desert is in the United Arab Emirates.
The attack of the giant eyeballs!
At first glance, I’m reminded of a sloth.
I’m seeing a koala
I see it!!
At first glance I’m running away!
.
I guess dogs chan be as much like water as cats.
What a big ol’ doofus.
Best kind of big dog.
Maybe it helps scratch an itch.
,
More on Jonathan.
I had/am having one of my vertigo attacks this afternoon, just after dinner. I took the pups out to P and run and it hit as i was standing in the door. First one since retiring.
Kiki knew right away that something was wrong and laid next to me just as soon as i was down in bed. Buddy was clueless. Fan was trying to compete with Kiki. I think that she knew something different was up.
Now in siting up in bed, so i’m getting better.
Hey! I got ran, nothing unusual about that but i also have had a couple flashes of lightning. That’s rare on the coast here. If there is anything at all that i miss about Lake Havasu City is siting, looking across the valley and watching the lightning storms.
Take care!
Working on it. Still gotta get the beasts out one more time. I’ll stay in the garage while they roam. I have a folding chair there for just this occasion.
I had something similar a week ago. I was fine until I opened the car door, then my head felt weird. It took a moment to realize my sinuses were suddenly reacting to something and I quickly closed the door. Looking around I saw a birch tree had started opening up right in front of me. I don’t get along with birch trees this time of year.
I’m not suggesting your issue may be allergy caused. I’ve had vertigo episodes my self and I’ve found that for me they were caused by something or a number of somethings I wasn’t doing to take care of myself. It’s been from lack of sleep (not much now that I’m retired also), not eating or hydrating enough and tension for the most part.
Like JP Steve said, “Take care!”
Oof! That’ll put a crimp in your style, and a blight on your mojo.
The cat, being the oldest and having seniority, is also the wisest. Hence, she immediately senses your distress and stays with you in case she is needed. She may not be outwardly empathetic, but she loves you all the same. Fawn is going to have to figure out that when you lie down, there are at least two sides of you. She & Kiki can each take a side, and let Kiki have first choice cause of the whole seniority thing. Buddy was clueless because, as you have told us in tale and verse, Buddy IS clueless. It’s one of his most endearing qualities.
Take care of yourself. Make sure you always have a way to contact help.
Phone is always at hand. As a caregiver i pushed my clients to keep their phone nearby always. I decided that it was good advice for me too. One of my friends has a small purse just for her phone and she wears it around her neck all the time. She can’t afford a fall monitor.
Okay, I don’t like talking about my medical stuff here… but I have to tell you…
I’ve had several vertigo attacks in the not terribly distant past that sent me to the ER…
I remember maybe the worst time, sitting on the edge of my bed holding on for dear life while the room whirled at high speed around me.
I think my brain knew it had to be an illusion, but my body was convinced I’d be thrown off any second by centrifugal force.
I’d managed to call a friend for a ride… He had trouble prying my hands from their grip on the bedding. Then I had a very hard time walking to his car, leaning on or grabbing things along the way.
I’m not going to talk about its effect on my stomach, but it was horrible.
At the hospital I fainted, and woke up on a gurney.
…
I’m not going to say I’m convinced it’ll never happen again… But I’ve learned some strategies. It’s been years now since the ER.
First… I’ve said it before: MECLIZINE!! At the first sign.
Now if I’m at all dizzy I look up… If the ceiling or the sky is holding still, I know I’ll be okay. But if I see any motion: Meclizine
And get your doctor to show you, if you don’t know, how to slowly lean side to side to help settle the ear fluid.
Those two things plus lying down usually make it go away. Sometimes I have to sleep for a little while.
Oh .. and if I’m even a little dizzy, I drink water and eat a small amount of something salty. Sometimes that’s all it takes.
…
BTW, a doctor had recommended the Meclizine years before, so I had it, but sometimes it was in another room. Now I keep some everywhere, even though I live in a tiny place.
It’s cheap enough in any drugstore, but if you have Costco, it’s ridiculously cheap. For about $6 I could never use it all before it expires.
So I can stash some wherever I want and give some away…. Every few years I replace it.
I discovered that pretty much all they did in the ER anyway was give me Meclizine, and sometimes IV saline, and keep me lying down.
…
Yup. I decided that i need a pill neckless. I have meds, but they are in the car. :/
I am a slow learner. Yes i am.
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The US Bees have evolved a subspecies with slimmer abdomens….
labeled by scientists US Bee type C.
They seem to be gradually taking over the habitats of the original, ie type A, US Bees.
Good one. A visual pun.
PostImage seems to be working now
I posted this on March 28. 2023, but if you didn’t copy it then, you can now.
I’ve made this for birthday cakes.
From: .
The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook (Reader’s Digest Edition) .
By: Zoe Coulson.
Published by: Hearst Books New York (1980) .
ISBN 0-87851=037-0.
“Black Forest Cherry Torte”
2 15- or 16- ounce cans
pitted tart cherries, drained
about 1/2 cup kirsch
(cherry-flavor
brandy)
Chocolate Cake Layers
(page xxx / see recipe and second spoiler box below)
2 cups heavy or whipping cream (whipping cream 35% milk fat / heavy cream > than 35% milk fat )
1/2 cup confectioners’
sugar
1 square semisweet
chocolate, grated
12 maraschino cherries,
well drained
2 squares semisweet
chocolate made into
chocolate curls
Begin 4 hrs ahead
12 servings
1 In medium bowl, place
cherries and 1/3 cup
kirsch; leave at room tem-
perature for 2 1/2 hours,
stirring occasionally.
2 Meanwhile, preheat
oven to 350° F. Prepare
cake layers as recipe directs
but pour batter into 3
greased and floured 9-inch
round cake pans. Stagger
pans on 2 oven racks so no
pan is directly above
another. Bake cake layers
20 to 25 minutes until
toothpick inserted in cen-
ter comes out clean. Cool
on wire racks 10 minutes;
remove layers from pans
and cool them com-
pletely on wire racks,
about 2 hours.
3 With fork, prick well
top of each cake, then
drain cherries well and
sprinkle cherry liquid
over cake layers.
4 In small bowl with
mixer at medium
beat heavy or whip-
ping cream, confectioners’
sugar and 2 tablespoons
kirsch until the cream
stands in stiff peaks.
5 Place one cake layer on
cake platter. Spread
with one-fourth whipped-
cream mixture; top
with half of cherries.
6 Repeat with the second
layer and then top with
the third one.
7 Frost side of cake with
half of remaining
whipped-cream mixture.
8 With spoon, gently
press grated semisweet
chocolate onto whipped-
cream mixture all around
the side of the cake.
9 Garnish with dollops of
remaining whipped-
cream mixture; top each
dollop with a drained
maraschino cherry
10 Pile chocolate curls
in center; keep
refrigerated. (Chocolate
curls may turn slightly
gray in color.
Cake layers derived from “Chocolate Cupcakes“recipe
Begin early in day / 8 to 10 servings
2 cups cake flour
1 3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cups cocoa
1 1/4 cups milk [whole milk — (3.25% milk fat)]
3/4 cups shortening
3 eggs
1 1/4 teaspoons baking
soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
extract (real, not artificial)
1/2 tablespoon double-
acting baking
powder
Coffee Cream-
Cheese Frosting
or Fluffy Boiled Frosting
(page xxx / not needed so not listed / if you want, them I’ll post them)
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Place liners in 2 dozen
3-inch muffin-pan cups or
grease and flour cups.
2
Into large bowl,
measure all cupcake in-
gredients except frosting.
3 With mixer at low
speed, beat until well
mixed, constantly scraping
bowl; at high speed, beat 5
minutes, scraping the
bowl occasionally.
4 Spoon into muffin-pan
cups, filling each half
full. Bake 20 minutes or
until toothpick inserted in
center of one comes out
clean and dry.
5 Cool in pans on wire
racks 10 minutes, then
remove from pans and
cool completely on racks.
6 Prepare frosting then
dip tops of cupcakes
into frosting and turn
slightly to coat (again, not needed).
CHOCOLATE CAKE: Preheat oven to 350° F.
Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans. Prepare batter as above but pour into pans; bake 30 to 35
minutes. Cool layers in pans on wire racks 10 minutes;
remove from pans and cool completely on racks. Fill
and frost the chocolate cake layers with your choice
of either…. (frosting choices not needed here)
Notes from me:
Sort out the instructions between the three recipes involved. It’s easily done, but it’s a bit of an annoyance.
Editorial comment:
Kirsch is not quite as bad as Everclear, but it’s getting down to Everclear’s level when it comes to potability.
It’s recipe day! !
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
It would be a crying shame if someone was to bring me a piece of this cake right now.
I have found a new comic. New to me.
It was mentioned on the new comic on GoComics, Fur Babies.
Keven & Kell. Its by Bill Holbrook. A name i know.
So how did i miss a comic about bunnies and dogs?