David Mays

Un-monetized reply guy, perpetually broke billionaire, former satirist.

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@ingelramdecoucy @exjon Objectively, out of context, in the right setting, the "raping the burglar, but not in a gay way" line would be funny.

I mean, once, obviously, don't make it a forking motto.

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@TheLocalWisdom @japan_nobunaga I put it on my page

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@wackyseester @lazarusatgate @mogulova @japan_nobunaga Interesting. I will pass that along.

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@Mnuchindilutio1 @japan_nobunaga I put it on my page.

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@Really5dog @japan_nobunaga I've never heard it named or seen it anywhere else. Maybe.

I searched on Google and that looks about right.

Thanks for the reference.

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It was a limited offering of Ceremonial Grade heirloom microlot from Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia coffee sold by Danger Coffee. It cost about the same as actual pure Kona from Hawaii.

I'm not really a coffee snob myself, so my knowledge is not encyclopedic. I buy light roast organic for myself, for the extra kick, and drink it black.

The wife has an assorted collection for mood dependent coffee drinking.

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I purchased, as a gift for my wife, the most fancy and expensive bag of coffee beans that you can get that didn't come out of a cat's butt.

That was for Christmas. She hasn't opened it yet, except to smell the bag from time to time.

She has this glitch where she doesn't want to use something unless she has a backup. She'll stop taking supplements when she gets to her last bottle, will never drink the last seltzer until a new pack arrives.

She went to visit her family last weekend, all girls, all coffee lovers. I asked her if she was going to take the coffee.

"Nooooooo! Why would I do that?"

She is never going to drink that coffee unless I buy her a second bag.

On the other hand, she's in denial about the glitch.

Hence, I have already bought her an infinite supply of the World's Greatest Coffee, for she will always have plenty.

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@Rothmus WTF

Shouldn't the British have the golf clubs!?!

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@lazarusatgate @CeciliaGlennon @japan_nobunaga This cake is very dense and moist. It isn't fluffy at all. She used Crisco. We replaced with tallow. Same effect.

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@lazarusatgate @mogulova @japan_nobunaga You're right, of course. I probably should have just put it on my page in the first place. Done.

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Louise Haltom Liska's Chocolate Cake

Cake

2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1/2 cup butter (or 1 stick if you go that way)
1 cup rendered beef tallow
1 tsp vanilla (vanilla shall be measured more by the heart, less by the spoon)
4 tbsp cocoa
1 cup water
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp baking soda

Stir flour with sugar in large mixing bowl; combine butter, tallow, cocoa, and water in a saucepan and bring to a rapid boil. Pour solution over flour mixture and stir well. Mix in buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla in a separate bowl, then add to the flour mixture as well. Grease (we use butter) a 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes until toothpick is dry on the test.

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While the cake is cooking, you have to get the icing ready because it goes directly on the cake out of the oven.

Icing

1/2 cup butter (or 1 stick if you go that way)
4 tbsp cocoa
6 tbsp milk
16 oz of powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla (again, vanilla shall be measured more by the heart, less by the spoon)
1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Melt butter and mix in cocoa and milk, slowly bring to a boil on medium heat with a constant whisk. Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients. Mix well. Spread warm icing onto cake before it cools.

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Notes

We make our buttermilk from raw milk, using about a tsp of lemon per cup of milk and let it sit for 15 minutes. You can vary lemon amounts by degree of sourness you prefer.

Let the cake sit until the icing has crusted.

Sorry for the previous post where I said she melted the sugar into the butter slowly to avoid granular texture, that was for her chocolate chip cookies. I'm just a boy over here.

My wife said, "Caution, this may hurt your teeth".

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@mario4thenorth @WordsfromC Get it while it lasts.

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@mogulova @lazarusatgate @japan_nobunaga The recipe is down the Crisco thread

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Results are in for Los Angeles. Karen Bass wins with 81 million votes.

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@LilyInBloom3 I think I might have some work to do.

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@japan_nobunaga The recipe has been posted in this conversation tree somewhere.

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My father's mother always made a specific chocolate cake for every family event. It was delightful. It was epic.

She passed away a year before I met my wife.

Some 15 years later, my wife found the recipe for that cake in my grandmother's belongings.

I told her the story of that legendary cake, and she started experimenting with reproducing it. She called it "heart attack in a pan" because it is basically a truckload of fats and sugars with just enough grains to hold the ingredients together.

After a few of my birthdays for practice, she had the process perfected. She rendered her own tallow, ground her powdered sugar from turbinado and melted it slowly into the butter to avoid grainy textures. She learned when to pour the hot icing onto the cooling cake so that it crisped up perfectly.

The family reunion comes in October. My wife made the cake and placed it on the table labeled as "Louise's chocolate cake". After an 18 year absence from that table, the cake had finally returned.

My father took a bite and said it was perfect.

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Louise Haltom Liska's Chocolate Cake

Cake

2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1/2 cup butter (or 1 stick if you go that way)
1 cup rendered beef tallow
1 tsp vanilla (vanilla shall be measured more by the heart, less by the spoon)
4 tbsp cocoa
1 cup water
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp baking soda

Stir flour with sugar in large mixing bowl; combine butter, tallow, cocoa, and water in a saucepan and bring to a rapid boil. Pour solution over flour mixture and stir well. Mix in buttermilk, eggs, baking soda and vanilla in a separate bowl, then add to the flour mixture as well. Grease (we use butter) a 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes until toothpick is dry on the test.

--

While the cake is cooking, you have to get the icing ready because it goes directly on the cake out of the oven.

Icing

1/2 cup butter (or 1 stick if you go that way)
4 tbsp cocoa
6 tbsp milk
16 oz of powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla (again, vanilla shall be measured more by the heart, less by the spoon)
1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Melt butter and mix in cocoa and milk, slowly bring to a boil on medium heat with a constant whisk. Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients. Mix well. Spread warm icing onto cake before it cools.

--

Notes

We make our buttermilk from raw milk, using about a tsp of lemon per cup of milk and let it sit for 15 minutes. You can vary lemon amounts by degree of sourness you prefer.

Let the cake sit until the icing has crusted.

Sorry for the previous post where I said she melted the sugar into the butter slowly to avoid granular texture, that was for her chocolate chip cookies. I'm just a boy over here.

My wife said, "Caution, this may hurt your teeth".

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@TRHLofficial

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@SteveInmanClips @SteveInman Background check

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@BattleByrd Quote texted.

Outside of X so I wrote this to make sure you got engagement credit.