Grandma's Lemon Cake

Here is Grandma's Famous Lemon Cake Recipe.

1 package Yellow Cake Mix
1 package Lemon Jello (small)
3/4 cup water
4 eggs
3/4 cup oil

Mix the cake mix with the jello. Add water and beaten eggs, 2 at a time. Mix in oil. Bake cake at 350 for 45 min, or until done.
When cool, poke holes in the cake with a fork.

Glaze

In a pan bring 2 cups powdered sugar and the juice of 2 lemons to a boil. Add the zest of 1 lemon. Spoon onto cake.

Serve with whipped cream.

This was my favorite cake, and now my kids love it as well. Mine never tastes quite as good as Grandma's did. I think she had a magic baking pan. : )

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I Must Be a Nut, by Douglas Matthews, c. early 1960's

This poem was composed on one hungry evening sometime in the early 1960's. Maybe Dad can comment and tell us a bit more about it. It is written on the front of an unaddressed greeting card envelope. This is my father's hand. He has always used an engineer's All Caps script as long as I can remember. This did not follow Grandma's Spencerian training.

The text reads [Untitled]:

I must be a nut;
I know I'm a nut!
Whenever I drop by
to visit this hut
the people who live
here have already cut.
I think that I am
in some kind of rut.
However, the macaroni
and green beans were
good.

Doug

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