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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2006Ping NMR
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/ sfl-scold10feb10,0,75680l63.story?coll=sfla-home- headlines I have arranged for the short cold blast described above - which blew through here last night, leaving a shallow snow blanket on our immediate area - to go to *your* area very soon. Enjoy, and imagine you're back in KY (but you won't get the snow). LOL. that is a little to far down I am near Daytona beach which is up north towards the top part of the state. I has been getting down into the lower 40's here 60 -80 during the day still not what it is supposed to be here is our forecast for central florida Kentucky get a heck of a lot colder than this Where I was raised at you got snowed in for quite a while but now with civilization expanding we got major highways thru the area They even got themselves a super walmart which did the area a world of good there was to little of small business in the area. they as the deal bought them out made them rich. http://www.local6.com/weather/index.html Inland Volusia County Tonight: partly cloudy. Not as cool. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds around 5 mph. Saturday: partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers likely and isolated afternoon thunderstorms. Breezy. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent. Saturday Night: mostly cloudy with isolated showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Colder. Lows in the upper 30s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Lowest wind chill readings 29 to 32 after midnight. Sunday: mostly sunny. Cooler. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Sunday Night: mostly clear. Colder. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Monday: mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s. Monday Night: mostly clear. Patchy frost in the outlying areas after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Tuesday And Tuesday Night: partly cloudy. Warmer. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the lower 40s. Wednesday And Wednesday Night: partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the lower 50s. Thursday Through Friday: partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. > that is a little to far down I am near Daytona beach which is > up north towards the top part of the state. Hey NMR, I was just in your area last week! I visited my mom - she was living in Ormond, but she just moved down to Stuart, which is in Martin county. I was there to help her pack and move. Joyce > > that is a little to far down I am near Daytona beach which is > > up north towards the top part of the state. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Joyce Ormond is about 40 minutes away by I-4 and I -95 You should have said something could have met you for lunch :-) > Ormond is about 40 minutes away by I-4 and I -95 > You should have said something could have met you for lunch :-) Sorry! I don't like to advertise on a worldwide network that I'm thousands of miles away from home. :) Are you on Freecycle by any chance? I did join the Daytona Beach group for two weeks to have someplace to offer items from my mom's place that were good enough to give away. So if you're on there, you might have seen some of my posts. Joyce > > Ormond is about 40 minutes away by I-4 and I -95 > > You should have said something could have met you for lunch :-) [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Joyce No I am not the only charity beside the cat kind I am involved in is habitat for humanity > that is a little to far down I am near Daytona beach which is up north > towards the top part of the state. I has been getting down into the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > which did the area a world of good there was to little of small business > in the area. they as the deal bought them out made them rich. Well, yes, I didn't realize exactly where you are, but I tried. Some of my dearest pals are from Bowling Green, and your descriptions sound like where they're from (what they've told me). I sent you a link from the paper I used to get in Pompano Beach, where we lived for about 16 years....I'm originally from Miami, where it snowed ONCE when I lived there, around 1976 or so. I was in backyard hanging clothes and tiny flakes melted on my upstretched hands. I was thrilled to death. Dnr I am original from the south east side of Kentucky the nearest towns were hazard, Whitesburg, Prestonsburg and moreshead. I lived in the unincorporated area in between up in the hills. My family still has it farms up there. I always tell everyone would like to know what my homestead looked like watch the movie with Patrick swayze where he plays the hillbilly cop; the next of kin. I miss the country life no one locks there door, we have Sunday get together. people actually say hello to you and generally care about your family. you go into the restaurant everyone knows your name. If you need help raising a barn we have a barn raising party everyone turns out. When I was growing up the court house was the library, firestation, police station. and the school. There was a real soda fountain shop which was also the feedstore and grocery store till the A and P came in and we got a piggly wiggly; which is gone now but I loved the piggly wiggly. I used to love the A and P they had a pastry called the Spanish bar cake can't find it down here in the south anymore used to carry it at Kroger's but food lion bought them out. >> that is a little to far down I am near Daytona beach which is up north >> towards the top part of the state. I has been getting down into the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > and tiny flakes melted on my upstretched hands. I was thrilled to > death. <Dnr I am original from the south east side of Kentucky the nearest towns were hazard, Whitesburg, Prestonsburg and moreshead. I lived in the unincorporated area in between up in the hills. My family still has it farms up there. I always tell everyone would like to know what my homestead looked like watch the movie with Patrick swayze where he plays the hillbilly cop; the next of kin. I miss the country life no one locks there door, we have Sunday get together. people actually say hello to you and generally care about your family. you go into the restaurant everyone knows your name. If you need help raising a barn we have a barn raising party everyone turns out. When I was growing up the court house was the library, firestation, police station. and the school. There was a real soda fountain shop which was also the feedstore and grocery store till the A and P came in and we got a piggly wiggly; which is gone now but I loved the piggly wiggly. I used to love the A and P they had a pastry called the Spanish bar cake can't find it down here in the south anymore used to carry it at Kroger's but food lion bought them out. > Hi Matthew, I grew up in a small town in upstate NY. The population at that time was 100, but I think it is even smaller now. The next town over had an A & P, and I remember the Spanish Bar cakes. I haven't seen them in years! Now you have me craving one! <G> Some of the unusual (now) things my mom used to buy were pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs, Head Cheese (they call it something different in the south) , and Croghan Bologna - a pickled sausage like kielbasa. My sister used to get brine pickled mozerella cheese from Canada. YUM! My grandmother used to make pickled deer heart - we used everything we could from the deer. (There seems to be a pickle theme here...) I miss those days - would give anything to have them back again. Mishi You just made me hungry :-) I made a call once to A&P to see about ordering some but I had to order 100 gross cases did not have the shelf space for it at the stores or at my house. I would have gotten real fat after eating all them. Pickled eggs and pigs feet I can get those at a store chain called Cumberland Farms. Time to start the car But I did find a link to buy them on line http://tinyurl.com/dqqca and I have a recipe to make the cake also I think about that old time fountain shop and the soda jerks that ran them getting a soda pop made with fresh syrup spending all the hard earned allowance on one getting a old fashion rootbeer float served from the wooden kegs with vanilla icecream added to them. Sorry I got to stop talking about food my wife just knocked me up side the head and said I was making her hungry. I might be retired but I would love to open one of those shops up. We don't have any bigboys here yet but got a Johnny rockets but it still is not the same . There was a real soda > fountain shop which was also the feedstore and grocery store till the > A and P came in and we got a piggly wiggly; which is gone now but I > loved the piggly wiggly. I used to love the A and P they had a > pastry called the Spanish bar cake can't find it down here in the > south anymore used to carry it at Kroger's but food lion bought them > out. > , The next town over had > an A & P, and I remember the Spanish Bar cakes. I haven't seen them in > years! Now you have me craving one! <G> Some of the unusual (now) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I miss those days - would give anything to have them back again. Ha. From my southern childhood, fond memories of MoonPies, Nehi "pop", RC Cola, popsicles, and of course Twinkies.... and your fond memories of all that pickled stuff.....I never saw a PigglyWiggly till I visited the Cajun cousins in LA, and every time we went by it I would laugh & laugh at its name (I was 17). For your yearning hearts' information: I have an email in at the corporate HQ of A & P conglomerate re Spanish Bar Cake. I searched all of its company stores (different stores, almost all states NE area) and found NOTHING about this cake. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll send me a recipe, LOL. I never had any of this cake but I've been told about it for years now and how good it was. you want the recipe I have it here it is http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/ubbs/archive/CAKESandFROSTINGS/Cake_A__P_Spanish_Ba r_Cake.html http://fitdv.recipezaar.com/32190 after 3/10 you can buy it here and they will ship it you http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=31784& itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=spanish+bar+cake > you want the recipe I have it here it is > http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/ubbs/archive/CAKESandFROSTINGS/Cake_A__P_Spanish_Ba r_Cake.html > http://fitdv.recipezaar.com/32190 > after 3/10 you can buy it here and they will ship it you > http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=31784& itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=spanish+bar+cake Thank you! Now I can finally taste it. The recipe looks easy and doesn't call for any wierd, exotic ingredients, which I appreciate.When I was growing up, local grocery in our neighborhood was called Margaret Ann....which over years became Winn Dixie (now defunct). snipped > Ha. From my southern childhood, fond memories of MoonPies, Nehi > "pop", RC Cola, popsicles, and of course Twinkies.... Heh. I was partial to Grapettes and Chocolate Soldiers. My sister always got a Virginia Dare. Favorite candies were Walnettos, and you had to be young with no fillings or crowns to eat them. Sticky! I still drink a Chocolate Soldier once in a while. It's some kind of bastardized, fake chocolate "milk."...but I doubt milk is in the ingredients. I never heard of a Spanish bar. What it is? Sherry it is basically carrot cake with out the nuts and using cinnamon the frosting use a little lemon juice in it to give a lip smacking taste it is a mouth watering taste > snipped >> Ha. From my southern childhood, fond memories of MoonPies, Nehi [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Sherry > > I never heard of a Spanish bar. What it is? > it is basically carrot cake with out the nuts and using cinnamon the > frosting use a little lemon juice in it to give a lip smacking taste it is > a mouth watering taste WOW!! That sounds wonderful. Is this what the recipe was for? (I didn't follow that thread very carefully.) I'll have to go back and look. I love carrot cake, *except* for the nuts. So not having the nuts is a vast improvement, IMO. And lemon in the frosting (is it a cream cheese frosting like on regular carrot cake?) does sound yummy. Off to find that recipe... Joyce > > > I never heard of a Spanish bar. What it is? > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Joyce SPANISH BAR CAKE, SPANISH BAR CAKE, YAY!! Yes, I'm yelling. When I moved to Florida in 1989 I missed two food items badly Howard's Green Piccalilli (which is now sold here and Spanish Bar Cake. Back to New England I go and no SBC, what!!! Every trip there I tried to find it. No go. Here it is. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Charleen, who is not going to share the first bar, maybe the second, but definitely not the first!! > When I moved to Florida in 1989 I missed two food items > badly Howard's Green Piccalilli (which is now sold here and Spanish Bar > Cake. Back to New England I go and no SBC, what!!! Every trip there I > tried to find it. No go. Are you saying that Spanish Bar Cake is a New England specialty? But I'm from New England, and I've never heard of it!! I grew up there and lived there 37 years. This is the first I've heard of it. Joyce > > When I moved to Florida in 1989 I missed two food items > > badly Howard's Green Piccalilli (which is now sold here and Spanish Bar [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Joyce Joyce, I can't say for sure it was a NE specialty but it was avaliable any time I went shopping from the time I was a kid and went with my foks until the time I moved. It came in a white loaf box with a cellophane window, cost $1.29. It was very popular and went quickly. Have no idea why it was called Spanish Bar Cake, maybe some one else knows. I never saw it in any other part of the country. Charleen > > When I moved to Florida in 1989 I missed two food items > > badly Howard's Green Piccalilli (which is now sold here and Spanish Bar [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Joyce Hi Joyce, I am from way upstate NY (not far from the canadian border, near Lake Placid) and I remember it being available in the A & P and a couple of the smaller markets there. Very moist, very yummy! I am going home on Tuesday for my uncle's funeral, and if I remember I will look for it there. Patti Charleen Welton <ilikecats@cfl.rr.com> YOU ARE VERY WELCOME You are not the far away charleen I am in florida to near Daytona beach I love spanish bar cake have some of that and a rich cup of coffee in the morning talk about awake me up > > > I never heard of a Spanish bar. What it is? > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Joyce The strange thing is that you all say it's without nuts, but the ones that turned up with Google all seemed to have walnuts in them... Google produced quite a few sites with recipes for Spanish Bar Cake.  SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 >> > > I never heard of a Spanish bar. What it is? >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >that turned up with Google all seemed to have walnuts in them... Google >produced quite a few sites with recipes for Spanish Bar Cake. Also, the name should probably be parsed as Spanish "Bar Cake", rather than "Spanish Bar" Cake. Bar cake probably means that it is to be baked in a square or rectangular pan, and sliced into bars, rather than in a circular pan and sliced into wedges. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > Also, the name should probably be parsed as Spanish "Bar Cake", rather > than "Spanish Bar" Cake. Bar cake probably means that it is to be > baked in a square or rectangular pan, and sliced into bars, rather > than in a circular pan and sliced into wedges. As opposed to a cake that might be served in a Madrid tavern with a pitcher of Sangria. :) Joyce >> > > I never heard of a Spanish bar. What it is? >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > turned up with Google all seemed to have walnuts in them... Google > produced quite a few sites with recipes for Spanish Bar Cake. they original one from A & P did not have them in it but most people have eaten the carrot cake and associate it with the Spanish Bar cake > they original one from A & P did not have them in it but most people have > eaten the carrot cake and associate it with the Spanish Bar cake By the way, the recipe that was posted here (that is, the URL to the recipe posted here) did not include carrots, which is an ingredient I consider essential to carrot cake. :) Also, the frosting for carrot cake is made of cream cheese, which wasn't in that recipe either. So I'm not so sure it's really that much like carrot cake. Maybe it's more like spice cake? Joyce > > they original one from A & P did not have them in it but most people > > have [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Joyce Sorry my bad Joyce you are right spice cake is the best example but the taste is well you will have to try it for yourself :-) > Sorry my bad Joyce you are right spice cake is the best example but the > taste is well you will have to try it for yourself That's OK. I'm thinking of finding a regular carrot cake recipe and just eliminating the nuts, while adding lemon to the frosting. Both of those differences sound like excellent improvements to me! Joyce > > Sorry my bad Joyce you are right spice cake is the best example but the > > taste is well you will have to try it for yourself [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Joyce I knew I was good fro something :-D >> > Sorry my bad Joyce you are right spice cake is the best example but the >> > taste is well you will have to try it for yourself >> That's OK. I'm thinking of finding a regular carrot cake recipe and >> just eliminating the nuts, while adding lemon to the frosting. Both of >> those differences sound like excellent improvements to me! >> Joyce I knew I was good fro something :-D Reading you two's posts, I am going to doctor this recipe to my liking, LOL, being a good baker with the ability to read a recipe and visualize both appearance and taste of finished product: I hate carrot cake, so will follow the carrot-less recipe to the letter that way, BUT since I do like nuts and raisins, these will be added to the spicy batter.... I also hate cream-cheese frosting on anything (cream cheese is only great on bagels, IMHO) so will only dust top of finished loaf cake (bar) with powdered sugar and see how that goes. Cake sounds rich enough to stand on its own w/o frosting, anyway. Thanks again, NMR. Who needs A. & P.? > > they original one from A & P did not have them in it but most people > > have [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Joyce Correct, the original cake is a mild spice cake, it does not include carrots, it also does not include nuts but does contain raisins. The correct name is Spanish Bar Cake, Bar is for the shape. It can be baked in loaf pans or 9x13 and cut into bars. The frosting is not, traditionally, cream cheese frosting. It is a dark, very moist cake. And it is very, very, very good! Charleen
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