Choice Morsels

Greetings! Welcome to another wonderful fall week in October and Good Eating Monday! Today's Good Eating recipe is a vintage Jello recipe that's from the 50's. It's a snack cake baked in 13x10 pan. Some might call it a type of "poke" cake. Once the cake is baked, a thin lemon glaze is poured over the tooth-picked surface of the cake while it's still hot, so it quickly absorbs. You can use fresh lemons or bottle lemon juice. I like to add a little lemon zest with a hand-grater to both the cake and the glaze. It's served chilled and is deliciously lemony. And I'm not even fond of lemony stuff in general---but I love this cake! Vintage Glazed Lemon Cake Ingredients: 1 box lemon cake mix 1 3 oz package lemon jello (reg or sugar-free) 1 cup water 1/2 cup salad oil (Or sub 1/2 cup  unsweetened applesauce for lower fat.)     3 eggs, beaten 2 Tablespoons lemon juice Glaze: 2 cups confectioners sugar 5 Tablespoons lemon jui...

Greetings!  Another week and another rainy day. My veggie garden is a swamp. My back yard is a sponge that squishes under foot when I walk through it.  I read in the AccuWeather extended forecast a few days of little to no rain are coming! My squash seeds came up and I think I'll move them to better location in very short order. Today I have a delicious vintage cookie-bar recipe from 1967 called "Date & Orange Crumbles." I made it last Tuesday and the Air Force guys at Bible Study gobbled them up. It's going to be my favorite "recipe of the year" in this year's Christmas letter! To make it a healthier recipe I used Sugar in the Raw, which is raw cane sugar, substituted 1/2 cup wheat flour in the white flour called for and used lite butter, but you can use the recipe as is. It calls for fresh oranges, chopped dates and oatmeal! Date & Orange Crumbles 3/4 cup butter or margarine 1 cup brown sugar 1 Tbsp grated orange rind 1 3...