FReeper Canteen ~ National Cake Day! ~ 26 NOV 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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National Cake Day!

The history of cake dates back to ancient times. The first cakes were very different from what we eat today. They were more bread-like and sweetened with honey. Nuts and dried fruits were often added. According to the food historians, the ancient Egyptians were the first culture to show evidence of advanced baking skills.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the English word cake back to the 13th century. It is a derivation of 'kaka', an Old Norse word. Medieval European bakers often made fruitcakes and gingerbread. These foods could last for many months.

Whether it's a shapely bundt cake (celebrated on November 15) or the less curvaceous sheet cake, these sweet layered, frosting-covered, or fondant-decorated works of art scream celebration! Made from scratch, a box or picked up from the bakery, a cake sends a sweet message.

Why does the cake recipe say to use room-temperature eggs? Cold eggs bring down the temperature of the other ingredients in the cake. For example, if you add cold eggs to a butter and sugar mixture, the butter will firm up into clumps. The eggs and butter (or other ingredients) won't distribute evenly throughout the cake batter affecting the final texture. The cake may also take longer to bake if cold eggs are used.

In the 1920s, fewer and fewer people were baking bread at home, says Laura Shapiro, a historian and author of Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. Flour companies were feeling anxious about the trend, which came in part from the growing availability of commercial bakery goods. Also, surplus molasses was on the minds of the folks at the P Duff and Sons Company.

They hit on a solution in the form of a powdered mix containing 50-50 flour and dried molasses, with dried eggs and a few other ingredients. Just add water, and a home baker could whip up a quick gingerbread. The first mix, sold in a can, not a box, came on the market in 1929, followed by a few other flavors. “The company worked up the idea of spice cakes,” says Shapiro. “They had a little run of cake mixes.”

After World War Two, the idea began to take off.

Inherent in its size, cake is almost always meant to be shared! That means that National Cake Day is the perfect opportunity to buy (or bake) a large cake and then find some people to share it with.

Come shares your favorite cake with us!

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Hi Everybody!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *HUGZ*

Dang, all that cake looks SOOOOOO good! A big slice o’ that first one will do just fine. LOL

Hope all’s well with you. Any plans for Thanksgiving or will it be a quiet one like it’ll be here?

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ National Cake Day! ~

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[Larry Lucido]

Ah, it’s tomorrow. I was afraid I missed it!

[left that other site]

Just LOOKING at that cake makes my A1C go up to 15./s

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy left that other site!

FIRST!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you radu!

SECOND!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi Kathy!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Well howdy to you Larry Lucido!

THIRD!

[laurenmarlowe]

Pretty fond of that chocolate one myself, LOL! It would be my pick as well.

Quiet, yes, I may go to my niece’s home for turkey dinner. It will be a nice day, And I hope you have a pleasant day too!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

I know, right, but yummy!

*HUGS*

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

I see there are spits of snow up your way this evening.
I have some rain closing in at last. The front is taking its time moving across the state.

[left that other site]

I know. It looks absolutely DELICIOUS.

[radu]

My tummy’s already rumbling as I wait for supper to come out of the oven and seeing that cake made it rumble even more. LOL It looks scrumptious!

Have fun at your niece’s if you go and eat bunches. :-)

No plans here. I’ll set out all the Christmas decorations that night, as I usually do.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, lauren, for today's National Cake Day !

Yummy!!!!!!

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November 26, 2024

Today's Scripture

Mark 6:35-44

Bible in a Year

• Ezekiel 27-29; 1 Peter 3

  Today's Insights

  In Mark’s account of a large crowd being fed with only five loaves of bread and two fish, the focus is on how this miracle instructed the disciples—both in God’s power as well as in their calling to serve (Mark 6:35, 39). The “how” of the miracle is mysterious. Mark doesn’t tell us that the crowd is even aware of a miracle occurring; the disciples simply start dispensing the food and somehow there’s enough for all.

  Jesus opens the meal with a customary prayer of thanks (v. 41). He may have spoken this traditional Jewish prayer: “Praise be to you, O Lord our God, King of the world, who makes bread to come from the earth, and who provides for all that you have created.”

Today's Devotional

When my friend and her husband struggled to conceive, doctors recommended she have a medical procedure done. But my friend was hesitant. “Shouldn’t prayer be enough to fix our problem?” she asked. “Do I really need to do the procedure?” My friend was trying to work out what role human action has in seeing God work.

The story of Jesus feeding the crowd can help us here (Mark 6:35-44). We may know how the story ends—thousands of people are miraculously fed with just a little bread and some fish (v. 42). But notice who is to feed the crowd? The disciples (v. 37). And who provides the food? They do (v. 38). Who distributes the food and cleans up afterward? The disciples (vv. 39-43). “You give them something to eat,” Jesus said (v. 37). Jesus did the miracle, but it happened as the disciples acted.

A good crop is a gift from God (Psalm 65:9-10), but a farmer must still work the land. Jesus promised Peter “a catch” of fish but the fisherman still had to cast his nets (Luke 5:4-6). God can tend the earth and do miracles without us but typically chooses to work in a divine-human partnership.

My friend went through with the procedure and later successfully conceived. While this is no formula for a miracle, it was a lesson for my friend and me. God often does His miraculous work through the methods He’s placed in our hands.

Reflect & Pray

When are you tempted to pray without acting? What’s God calling you to act on right now?

Dear God, thank You for including me in Your amazing work. Please take what’s in my hands and do wonders through it.

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