The Surprise Loaf Cake's surprise is that the family is expected to choke down another fruitcake for April. Yay.
At least everyone knows to be on the lookout for Sperry's Wheat Hearts, as they end up everywhere. This month, they're kicking the traditional ground beef and rice out of stuffed peppers.
Sperry Stuffed Peppers are full of canned corn and Wheat Hearts. (This pulls double duty by using cooked Wheat Hearts in the filling and uncooked as the topper. Meade must have felt really proud of figuring this one out!)
Her love of savory shortcakes shines through again this month, with an Asparagus Shortcake.
The shortcake itself is cooked in a ring, the perfect shape to fill with three pounds of asparagus and a cheesy sauce. (I thought the '50s and '60s were obsessed with ring molds, but the mania started much earlier!)
My favorite bread-and-veg combination for April just might be the All-in-One Pancake Roll, though.
It's kind of like sausage-and-spinach stuffed cannelloni, but instead of pasta, the stuffing is wrapped in pancakes. I keep imagining how spongy and soggy the cakes must have gotten under the layer of tomato sauce (seasoned with salt and pepper! So daring.), but some odd corner of my brain also loves the thought of turning a stack of pancakes into a cheese-topped casserole. That really seems like the April Fools-worthy joke!
Now I'm imagining an Asparagus Shortcake doll. Tall, skinny, wearing green, and a strange, green, pointy hat. While she may look strange, I think making the doll asparagus scented would have been the final detail that would have made that doll totally unsuccessful.
ReplyDeleteAnd she would be even less popular if they made a Betsy-Wetsy style Asparagus Shortcake that made asparagus pee....
DeleteThanks, I needed that laugh. As I recall they did make some baby strawberry shortcake dolls that could pee if you snuck some water into the bottles they came with without mom noticing. I wonder who thought peeing dolls was a good idea. I remember thinking that was weird even as a kid.
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