Hello everyone! As I write this it is Friday the 13th.
I’m not superstitious as a rule, but my mother-in-law sure was. If you brought a new pair of shoes in the house, you better not put them on the table, because that meant someone was going to die. If a black cat crossed the road in front of you while you were driving you had to turn around and go back the other way. Never walk under a ladder…the list is endless. I used to tease her so bad about putting shoes on the table. I also used to tell my sister Pam that she was born on the 13th just to aggravate her. I bet that shocks y’all. It would make her so mad.
I saw an old classmate of mine today, John David Moore. I haven’t seen him since we were in high school. We had some good laughs talking about some of the teachers and stuff we did. Now I really don’t want to tell this story, but I’m going to let the cat out of the bag. When we were in about the eighth or ninth grade, we had a teacher named Mr. Massey. He was as nice as he could be, but an easy target. I’m so sorry for how rotten I was, but it’s water under the bridge. One day at lunch, they had English peas. John David, Lonnie Efurd, and I decided to take some English peas back to class. We had Mr. Massey after lunch. I’m going to blame this one Lonnie Efurd, it was his idea and we went along with it. Lonnie was so, so, funny. We sure used to have lots of laughs.
It started out as one of us throwing an English pea at someone. Needless to say, it got out of hand and it ended up being a sort of food fight in class. We got called to the office. That was the first time in my life I got suspended for three days. But, we only got suspended from Mr. Massey’s class. Do you think my mom got onto me or grounded me? Nope, I got away with it. It was worth getting suspended over. It was so funny. So were the spit wads that got thrown at the film screen in Mr. Blanton’s class. I was a class clown and went to school to socialize.
This week’s recipe comes from another one of my classmates, Shelia Williams Carson. She is an excellent cook, and she makes the best cakes around. She stays busy with Shelia’s Sweets, Give her a call if you need a cake for a special occasion.
Peachy/Strawberry Delight
1st layer:
1 cup of flour
1 tablespoon of sugar
1/2 cup butter softened
1/4 cup chopped nuts (your choice)
Mix flour, sugar and softened butter. Then mix in the nuts. Spread in the bottom of a 9×13 pan and bake for 20 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Let it cool.
2nd layer:
1 cup sugar
1 9oz. Cool Whip
1 8 oz. cream cheese softened
3 cups sliced peaches or strawberries, whichever flavor you are making. To prepare this layer, mix cream cheese and sugar, then fold in the Cool Whip.
Spread this over the cooled crust layer. Top with the peaches or strawberries.
3rd layer:
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons corn starch
1 1/2 cup water
1 small package of peach or strawberry Jello. To prepare this layer, mix sugar, corn starch and water. Cook this mixture until thick. Mix in the Jello. Cool this mixture then spread this on top of the fruit.
