INGREDIENTS

• 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream (or not)
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 6 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon or brown sugar

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
2. In a large bowl, stir together the cake mix and instant pudding mix. Add the eggs, sour cream and oil, mix until well blended. In a small bowl combine the sugar, cinnamon and /or walnuts.
3. Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan, then place a layer of sliced apples over the batter and sprinkle with half of the cinnamon walnut mixture. Pour the remaining batter over the top and repeat with the remaining apples and cinnamon walnut mixture.
4. Bake for 60 to 70 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool for 1/2 hour before removing from pan to cool completely.

I have a made from scratch recipe too but I need to input it into computer recipes


The homeopathic teething tablets worked well for my kids or frozen things to chew on.

Scotch or Whiskey the anelgesic of choice in my family growingup

Coming from the Midwest and living in the South familes always made food for families with sick, injured or bereaveing relatives/ family.

I know the Methodist Churches we were involved in always and still do, my wifes family is Mormon and they have a good family food/ meal program for these type of things

I think just common courtesy and caring have gone the way of the 'Thank- you' and snail mail letter in this electronic age- everything is so impersonal nowaday or non gender specific (ie The Metro Sexual crap) or The Next (big thing)- people forget to just be nice like d (and the rest of u'z)

Good for you d- after getting swept in a 6 game series I needed a pick me up today

Good for you d. I think some people just go with the crowd even in the area of not helping out someone in need. Is it that they don't want to stand out as different, do they just assume someone else will step up, or do they just genuinely not care about the plight of others?

I think kindness in general is very much appreciated in life. I was in line at the airplane counter and a frantic woman went to the ticket processor. She told him she had stood in the wrong line for 20 minutes at the direction of an airport employee only to find out she should have been in the current line. Her plane left in 15 minutes and there was no way she'd make it. He said "Lady--if you want to ask all these people if you can go ahead of them--go for it". She looked up sheepeshly and said "I'm going to miss my plane back to my kids"....of course no one said anything....after she resumed her place about half again as far back as I was I turned to her and said I'd trade places with her...she could take my spot which was about 7 people closer...everyone started to smile and congratulate me and tell me how nice it was to do that and then told me not to move...the young lady could just join me in my spot...they were all just amazed that someone spoke up. She was almost in tears and kissed my cheek and said "you're so kind". I smiled and said that kindness was meant to be given away...it eventually comes back and now her job was to do the same. It was one of those Chicken soup moments...
People really do want to like each other...you know...
d

Silver - I'm sorry to hear the bad news. I know when my dad passed away a few years ago we were so indundated (sp?) with food that we had to start sending people who visited home with it. We live in a smaller town and it's still a common practice here.

d - it's really funny what you wrote about sounding illiterate (which you are far from by the way). I just looked at a couple I wrote and feel like all I've done is ramble off into the sunset......

Rum or whiskey weren't big 'cure' winners in our house when I was growing up ... peppermint schnapps was the cure all ... didn't matter what the problem/pain ... schnapps was the answer. Jeez - anyone new to the site could begining to wonder if we were all raised by a bottle of booze!
I hear you on the whole go to Starbucks for the coffee cake. If I make something sweet there is no way I can have only one piece. The darn pan seems to call you from whatever room you are in until you give in and just take another piece ... then another ... then another. It's much more guilt effective to hand out $4 for a small something.
Do people still make dishes of food and take them over to greiving families? Our neighborhood suffered a loss over the weekend and I made some bakery treats & delivered them to the family last night so they would have something in the morning when all the extended family arrived. Their reaction to this simple gesture was amazing. It makes me wonder if this is something that went along the wayside with Thank You notes?

Rum worked in my day too...I mean my mom used it...same sort of thing as the orajels cause it numbs the gum a bit--but now of course they make it without the alcohol...my mom used to blow warm smoke in my ears for an ear ache...now they say to hold a warm potato to the ear--same difference, warm wet air to reduce the swelling...fascinating how it all comes round isn't it...

You now sometimes I read back on these posts I type so quickly and I sound absolutely illiterate....
d