Blessings
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May
your pockets be heavy and your heart be light
May
good luck pursue you each morning and night |
| Toasts |
| In
the New Year may your right hand always be strong |
| Jokes |
Irishman,
Englishman and a German are caught in Saudi Arabia drinking. "Under Saudi
law you are sentenced to 30 lashes then deported. Before you begin you
are entitled to something on you back, what would you like?" said the prison
guard to the Englishman just before lashing him. The English man,
being a bit of a cricket fan, asked for linseed oil. When they lashed him
on a post and let him go to catch his flight back to London he groaned
and crawled to the airport. Next came the German.
"Under
Saudi law you are sentenced to 30 lashes then deported. Before you begin
you are entitled to something on you back, what would you like?" said the
prison guard "Nothing" said the German and, after receiving his lashes
spat on the ground, called the prison guards Schisers and started off towards
the airport. The guards then came to the Irishman. "Under Saudi law you
are sentenced to 30 lashes then deported. Before you begin you are entitled
to something on you back, what would you like?" "Oh", replied the Irishman,
"I'll take the German".
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| Irish
Coffee Cake |
Ingredients
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1/2
cup butter or margarine
-
1/2
cup sugar
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1 cup
all purpose flour
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1 teaspoon
baking powder
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2 teaspoons
instant coffee dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water
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2 eggs
Syrup
-
2/3
cup strong coffee
-
1/2
cup sugar
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3 tablespoons
Irish whiskey
Topping
-
2/3
cup whipped cream
-
1 heaped
tablespoon confectioners sugar
-
1 tablespoon
Irish whiskey
-
chopped
hazelnuts
Method
Butter
an 8 inch ring pan and coat well with flour .
In
a bowl cream together the butter and the sugar then add the eggs one at
a time.
Sift
the flour and baking powder and fold in 2/3 of it then add the 2 tablespoons
strong
coffee.
Fold
in the remainder of the flour.
Place
in the prepared cake pan and bake in a pre heated oven for 35- 40 minutes
at
350
degrees.
Test
with a skewer and when done turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
To
make the syrup heat sugar in coffee until
it
has all dissolved then boil rapidly for one minute.
Remove
from the heat and beat in the whiskey.
Return
the cooled cake to well washed pan and pour the syrup over it.
Leave
it to soak for several hours.
Beat
whipped cream with confectioners
sugar
and whiskey.
Turn
the cake out onto a serving plate and decorate with cream and chopped hazelnut.
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