“Abba” is only a little word, and yet contains everything. It is not the mouth but the heart’s affection which speaks like this. Even if I am oppressed with anguish and terror on every side, and seem to be forsaken and utterly cast away from Your presence, yet am I Your child, and You are my Father. For Christ’s sake: I am loved because of the Beloved. So this little word, “Abba,” Father, deeply felt in the heart, surpasses all the eloquence of Demosthenes, Cicero, and the most eloquent speakers that ever lived. This matter is not expressed with words, but with groanings, and these groanings cannot be uttered with any words of eloquence, for no tongue can express them.

Martin Luther

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Cakes	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Sticks margarine; (room temperature)
3	c	Sugar
5	lg	Eggs
3	c	Plain sifted flour
1	ts	Vanilla extract
1/2	ts	Lemon extract or
1	ts	Grated lemon peel
1/2	ts	Almond extract
7/8	c	Ginger ale or similar
		Soda

INSTRUCTIONS

Cream margarine until light. Cream in sugar and beat until fluffy. Beat in
eggs one at a time. Beat in 1 cup flour, then add extracts and a little
ginger ale. Continue adding flour, alternating with ginger ale, until all
ingredients are used. Beating can be done by hand or with electric mixer
until batter is smooth.
Pour batter into two greased and floured 9 x 5-inch loaf pans or one
greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.** Bake in a preheated 275 degrees
oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until knife or cake tester inserted in
center of cake comes out clean and cake has begun to shrink from sides of
pan. Let cool in pan.
**Cooking time for tube pan is slightly longer.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 553 by "Diane Geary."
<diane@keyway.net> on Jan 18, 1998

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