Jessie Evans & Evelyn Elridge Twin Effect & Wacky Cake

 While on her way to submit two pieces for Kalligraphia 13, Evelyn kindly showed me the two pieces.   I said, "They looked like they were done by the same person." Evelyn said, "We took the same
 Visigothic Versals' workshop under  Risa Gettler ".




Jessie Evans "The Difference Between Something & Nothing"



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Evelyn Eldrige "Calligraphy is a Dance"



When Claude Dieterich celebrated his birthday on the last day of Copperplate class, Evelyn brought a delicious cake, finger lickin' good. Students asked for her recipe.

EVELYN ELDRIGE'S WACKY CAKE: A CAKE WITHOUT EGGS & MILK

 Evelyn responded via email (posted with her permission) on the cake's recipe.

Here is the recipe for the cake that I brought to class tonight. My mother got this recipe during WWII, when food rationing made it difficult to get eggs and dairy products. A couple of plusses are, this recipe is extremely easy to make, and it is vegan. As those who tasted it tonight will attest, it is a moist, flavorful cake. Our family tradition was not to frost it, but to sift powdered sugar on it. I don't know why, but it's called Wacky Cake. Maybe because it was thought strange not to use eggs and milk.

WACKY CAKE

Sift together into ungreased baking dish and make three dents in the ingredients:

1 - 1/2 C flour
3 Tablespoons chocolate powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 C sugar
1 tsp soda

Into large dent put 6 Tablespoons vegetable oil.
In medium dent put 1 Tablespoon vinegar.
In small dent put 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Pour over all 1 C cold water. Stir well with fork, being sure that all lumps are removed. You could probably put everything in a bowl and use a mixer, but part of the allure for us as kids was making the dents and stirring it all together--it was a kind of ritual.

Bake 25 to 30 minutes at 350 F.

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