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Comfort Food Is Good Therapy, Too
Section: LIFE / FOOD
Author: Jennifer Harper
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 1/1/2007
Size: 540 Words, 3,554 Characters

Behold macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and fried chicken, shameless biscuits made with Crisco. Glorification of comfort food has been a staple of culinary wisdom ever since mankind became aware that familiar goodies make for good therapy, sometime in the mid-1980s.

Depressed? Well, try banana pudding, Mamie Eisenhower's fudge or perhaps french fries with gravy. Warm and homey comfort food gave the tender-crisp world of nouvelle cuis...


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...0 degrees. Butter a 9-by-9-inch baking pan.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg, cream and vanilla and mix. Add the baking soda, salt and flour and blend. Stir in the rhubarb.

Pour the batter into the pan. Mix the topping ingredients and sprinkle over the cake. Bake for 45 minutes. Makes 6 to 8 servings.

Copyright © 2006 The Washington Times, LLC.



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