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During the Great Depression, people sold apples in the streets to get enough money for their next meal. Fast-forward 80 years to another recession and meet Angela Logan, who is selling apple cakes to friends, neighbors and total strangers over the Internet to get enough money to save her home from foreclosure.
Forty years later, Henry A. Moak, Jr., still loves his pound cake.
Would you pay 145 pounds ($215) for a slice of very stale cake? That's what an antiques fair in Birmingham hopes to earn Thursday when people bid for the remnant from one of Britain's most controversial royal weddings.
A court hearing to determine custody for three children with Nazi-inspired names failed to yield a decision Thursday, leaving the matter still unresolved.
The father of three children who have names associated with Nazis is accusing the state Division of Youth and Family Services of taking his children under false pretenses and says one of the kids appeared neglected when he saw them last week.
Three New Jersey siblings whose names have Nazi connotations have been placed in state custody, police said. The children, ranging in age from 3 to under 1, were removed from their home Friday. They drew attention last month when a supermarket bakery refused to put the name of the oldest — Adolf Hitler Campbell — on a birthday cake.
The Connecticut Department of Development Services has placed an employee on administrative leave after prescription pills were found in a cake served at a home for disabled people.
Two couriers at a package distribution center stole a Christmas cake destined for a German newspaper and mailed in its place a package of credit card data, prosecutors said Friday. The mix-up triggered an alarm over lost bank customer details. A batch of microfilmed data including names, addresses and card transactions ended up at the Frankfurter Rundschau daily last week — instead of the cake. Police advised credit card customers with Landesbank Berlin to check their accounts for inconsistencies.
A supermarket is defending itself for refusing to a write out 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell's name on his birthday cake. Deborah Campbell, 25, of nearby Hunterdon County, N.J., said she phoned in her order last week to the Greenwich ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.
The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance.
In Style editors reviewed hundreds of products and narrowed them down to the top gift ideas for everyone on your holiday gift list, from the modern tot in your life to your favorite glamourista:
West Hartford police said they charged a 51-year-old woman with assault, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence after she allegedly served a marijuana-tainted ginger cake to her real estate agent.
A man being held in a Dutch police cell on suspicion of growing cannabis got an unintended treat in his lunch — a piece of hashish-laced cake, a spokesman said Thursday.
They won't let you eat cake at Windsor Castle, but visitors are being invited to admire a couple of 167-year-old slices.
Valentyn Shtefano's pastries were known for attracting stares and giggles as well as lip-smacking murmurs. But even his fiancee was surprised when Shtefano told her he was making her wedding dress — out of flour, eggs, sugar and caramel.
Cakey breaky art for divorceesT'S 'till death do us part for this icing hubby - as his missus pushes him off a DIVORCE cake.
An open question from a Minnesotan tonight. Is Representative Bachman right that the government should not interfere in the way health insurance is currently provided (or not provided) to our individuals, families, and especially our children?
I have been terribly remiss for too long now for not posting this baby here on the Vine. But most especially for my dear friends here among the vines! I am deeply sorry I haven't done it sooner, and only hope the act redresses the wait!
Catastrophic cake decorating disasters revealedThey are supposed to be the crowning moment of any special occasion but when even the icing on the cake is half-baked the results can be disastrous ... but still provide plenty of amusement.
Cake: 1 1/2 cup sifted flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar 1/2 cup shortening 1 egg yolk 2 Tbsp. Milk 4 cup sliced fresh fruit Topping: 3/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 Tbsp. Flour 2 Tbsp. Butter 1/4 tsp salt Directions:
"@!$%# The Guests": How I Learned to Have my Cake and Eat it TooI recently sat in on a therapy workshop. It was one of those "lunch and learns" where health care professionals sit around with stale sandwiches to learn about the latest "evidence-based research" in the field.
Man Kills Sisters - Beheads One For PoliceThis story is one of the most horrific incidents we will ever report…WE HOPE. 23-year-old Kerby Revelus, a young black man of haitian descent killed two of his three sisters the day after his five-year old sister's birthday.
Man resigns from job by handing in notice on cake Neil Berrett sugared the pill of his departure from Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, by announcing his intentions in icing.
Swedish cops 'baked cake' in the nudeExcerpt: The nine Swedish cops in western Sweden that posed naked with a weapon at a party, posed nude on several more occasions, it has emerged. The cops are reported to have frolicked naked in a gym and also while making a "sandwich cake".
Dcuben turns 110 in metric years. Today!! An accomplished Teacher (Earth Sciences) in a top-rated North Carolina School, Dcuben has won the prestigious Teacher of the Year award for the district and the state.
Cake maker messes up cake, hilarity ensuesA customer brought a picture of her boss into a bakery to be made into a cake — so far so good, right? She handed the photo over on a USB flash drive and when she returned to pick the cake up she found that instead of the photo of her boss immortalized in frosting, ...
Bill Kristol Busted - Sarah Palin - Pink Slip From NY TimesYou will recall that Bill Kristol was the droolingest of the drooling dorks who went over to Sarah Palin's house for a crabcake orgy while he was cruising the frigid waters of Alaska with all of his National Review and Weekly Standard friends, who up until that point were all v …
Pills found in cake served to residentsA complaint was filed from a home for disabled clients after a staff member served a cake mixed with pills.
Studies Prove that Obesity has Nothing to do with Bad GenesExcerpt: (NaturalNews) The current mainstream model of human health tells us that we are predestined to encounter certain illnesses, and that our weight is largely down to genes.
Myspace.com Blogs - T-Cake Travels - Tennessee T-Cakes MySpace BlogI like the idea of using them as hospitality gifts. They sound yummy!
Often the choice of many at birthday parties or anniversaries, cake has fast become a fun and favourite dessert not just for the ones consuming it but for the designers and creators of the cake.
It's Friday, I've got a new MacBook Pro, and dammit all -- I don't want to write another article about Palin or Obama or McCain or the election today.
Election CakeThe day we go to the polls is possibly the most definitive of America's special days. From the very first Election Day, just after the War of Independence, we proclaimed our devotion to something that had not appeared in major societies of the world.
This was a recipe given to me about 20 years ago. Milky Way Cake 8 (1 3/4 oz.) MILKY WAY bars 2 c. sugar 2 1/2 c. flour 1 1/4 c. buttermilk 1 c. pecans 3 sticks butter 4 eggs well beaten 1/4 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. vanilla
Wauwatosa firefighters win captain morgan ultimate pose offSix Wauwatosa firefighters will party at the Playboy Mansion this Halloween after snagging the top prize in the second annual Ultimate Pose Off contest sponsored by the makers of Captain Morgan liquors.
A recipe for disaster - poisonous apple cakeWe've all made kitchen mistakes and later blamed the recipe (or the oven) for unintentionally flat bread, charred roasts, or soup-like cheesecakes that refuse to cook. But, now and again, the recipe is at fault, as in the recent case of the Swedish poisonous apple cake.
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