“Let’s All Sing Happy Birthday to Gail”

               “Let’s BAKE a BIRTHDAY CAKE!”

5-10-2011 105720 AM

There is a “BIRTHDAY” coming up  and it is on the 13th of MAY , and just for some extra “GOOD LUCK”  and “FUN”  this will be on a “FRIDAY” …

And with  the occasion of it being your “BIRTHDAY”   and also  landing on the “13th” …

NEWS to YOU and all  our readers… those that are always looking for lots of “FUN and GAMES” …   the good news is … my BIRTHDAY” also lands on the  “13th and  a FRIDAY” once in awhile…  but, in a later  month!

One of the “GIRLS” in the above PHOTO will be the LUCKY young lady to be celebrating her BIRTHDAY…  on this FRIDAY the 13th!

Starting from the left side of  this PHOTO…  Elma… GAIL… Betty Jean…  Violet…  Jeanne… Theresa… Mary Agnes…  Mary Ellen… Stella… and Eleanor.

This is the eight grade cooking class  of 1952  so…  

NOW as you are looking, what do you think… that we should  be making?

Way back … in 1952 –  as far as I can remember …  when  you, were in the    KITCHEN …  you would need lots of ingredients … to bake a  cake and or to start to make a nice meal?

Back in the day… there  were not a lot of boxes of the “fast cake mixes” … to make  or even a selection from  which to make a good Birthday CAKE…  

All you would need to  make…  “this item as shown on the front of the box or package” …  would be an egg or two and oil and to add some water. 

Thinking back to our learning to COOK… we would need a  good “COOK BOOK”   with recipes for everything, including lots of additional information,  such as how to even prepare  some  vegetables  – meats –  even for a very  simple item to make…  such as Pancakes and  or even “French Toast”  just some of the items that… even I … back then would enjoy for breakfast. 

So… for this  coming “FRIDAY the 13th” …

I am giving some serious thought to making a “RED VELVET CAKE” …  an extra special   “CAKE”  that should command some “rave reviews” …   that is …  if I do a good job? 

It just came to me… here I am promoting the use of a good “COOK BOOK”  and it just dawned on me  that…  that  is “ME” in the PHOTO holding the  “COOKBOOK” …  someone had to find a good recipe …  for the PHOTO to make sense???                “RIGHT?”   – – RIGHT!

“HAVE you guessed …  WHO is the “LUCKY  CLASS MATE” of mine…  who will be having a real nice “BIRTHDAY PARTY”   on …  this 13th of May – and on a FRIDAY  … this 2022?   

( Just so you  do not have to wait … till tomorrow for the answer,  that is  our very good friend…  GAIL )

******* Happy Birthday Dear Gail*******


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