Comments on: The Wonder Of Simple Things And A Simple Cake

By: juanita

juanita — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:46:53 +0000

I remember as a child growing up in the early 50′s till 1962, when my grandmother passed away, she had a large pin cushion hanging on the wall where she kept her hat pins. She aways wore hats when she went out and used pins to hold her hat on. When my grandfather passed away in 1982 I ask for the pin cushion but someone else got all the pins. I can still see that pin cushion hanging on her wall behind where she alway sat.

By: joy ross

joy ross — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:49:29 +0000

i remember my mom’s feed store calender on the back door she had five of us in 8 years while my dad was in the navy she wrote down weather conditions what fields we worked (after the navy my dad farmed everything in south white county, arkansas that would stand still) how much cotton we picked that day or soybeans, it was a history of our life my dad died two years ago and my mom has cancer and wants to go see my dad and brothers and her mama so she is dividing up her wealth my sister’s call it stuff well i told her i better get the calendars so i can share with my sons and their families and let the weather bureau look at what the weather was like back in 1950 have a great father’s day love you joy a ross

By: What You’ve Been Cooking – Digest 6-17-11 | Southern Plate

What You’ve Been Cooking – Digest 6-17-11 | Southern Plate — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:37:33 +0000

[...] bought a flat of fresh home grown strawberries and I have made the Fresh Strawberry Pie and the Simply Easy Pound Cake to help use them up. With fresh home made whipped cream they both were delicious! My family loves [...]

By: Denise in Dallas

Denise in Dallas — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:39:11 +0000

What a beautiful story! For me, it’s Mom’s treadle (did I spell that right??) Singer sewing machine cabinet and her old crockery bowl that she made bread in. The bowl was that cream color with the blue band around the top. When we moved her out of Houston, it was such a rush that we couldn’t get many of her things. I know I’ll find one of those bread bowls one day!

Denise in Dallas

By: bobbie kaplan

bobbie kaplan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:56:25 +0000

Love this cake! But my bunch just loves chocolate,so substituted chocolate cake mix and pudding mix, Microwaved canned vanilla frosting an drizzled it over the cake. WOW,what a cake.

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:18:23 +0000

My mom printed the recipe a couple of weeks ago so I could make this for her…wasn’t that sweet of her =D

I made the cake exactly as the recipe says the first time and it turned out beautifully.
I made a second cake last Thursday using a Duncan Hines Orange Supreme cake mix instead of a plain cake mix and it was absolutely wonderful (from what I hear). My dad and uncle took it on the road with them from Birmingham to Tennessee and I don’t know that the cake ever made it out of the truck when they got there. They kept it all for themselves as a road trip snack as they traveled.
Im thinking we will try lemon next.

By: Libby

Libby — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:36:11 +0000

Thanks for this very good and very easy recipe. I made it for Memorial Day to go along with my sister’s peach ice cream (she makes the best I have ever eaten). I knew it was a keeper when my brother-in-law went back for seconds. Thanks again Christy.

By: Christy Jordan

Christy Jordan — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:17:59 +0000

I am so glad to hear it was a hit Elaine!!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:59:51 +0000

Made this cake for dinner with in-laws. It was SO GOOD!!! Served with fresh strawberries and vanilla ice cream. Can’t wait to make it again.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:41:23 +0000

Wow!!! looks soo yummy!!! How did you get the strawberries so moist and juicy???