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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains		Desserts, Breads, Muffins & r	9	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sugar
1/4	c	Shortening
2	md	Eggs
1	c	Flour
1	ts	Nutmeg
1/2	ts	Cinnamon
2	c	Apples; peeled & diced
1	c	Walnuts; chopped
1	ts	Baking soda
1/8	c	Hot water

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Mix together sugar and Lighter Bake. Mixture will be crumbly. 2. Add
eggs & mix at low speed until blended. 3. Stir together flour, nutmeg &
cinnamon, and add to sugar mixture, blending well.
4. Stir in apples & walnuts until all coated completely. 5. Dissolve baking
soda in hot water and stir into batter. 6. Pour into greased & floured
square baking dish and bake at 375 until a knife inserted near center comes
out clean - approximately     35 - 45 minutes.
Recipe By     : Eloise Griesmeyer
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #286
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:05:18 -0800 (PST)
From: "dmgdjm@dmgdjm.seanet.com" <dmgdjm@dmgdjm.seanet.com>
NOTES : Use rome beauty or jonathon apples. Good plain, but also good with
whipped cream or hot caramel syrup poured on top.

A Message from our Provider:

“Have you kept your promise to God?”

Jacob is about to enter the Promised Land. He will be one of the venerated Patriarchs of the faith. But before Jacob can become Israel, the man must be broken. Jacob needs to learn that his life is to be one of continual striving with God, but doing it with full dependence on God. He will learn that with God there is a continual heat from the refiner’s fire, but through the adversity there is an unspeakable joy in the journey. And though God probably won’t be wrestling with any of us physically like He did with Jacob, there is a continual tension of finding our greatest peace when we are most intimate in close communion with God. At times we struggle, but in the pain we learn to submit to His will, allow Him to expose our defects, yield to the wounds He creates and then trust Him that the pain is for our greatest good as the “old man” is further put to death. If we act in the flesh and run away or defend ourselves or blame others or whine and complain, we’ll never experience this. As creatures so prone to follow our selfish instincts, there is a serenity that comes when God wrestles us to the ground, breaks us further of our pride and reminds us that our sufficiency is only in Him.

Randy Smith