Zolablue, just found this recipe in a old "Farm Journal's Country Cookbook" 1959 Edition. Spice Cake (Women say it's a keeper; men beg to eat it right away) 1 cup milk 1/2 cup lard ...you could use shortening or oil I imagine. 1 tsp. vanilla 2 1/4 cups cake flour 1 tbs. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 1/4 cups sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. allspice 1/2 tsp. cloves 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 2 eggs, unbeaten Whip 2 tbs. milk with lard and vanilla; cream until light (2 min. at med. speed). Add sifted dry ingredients to lard mixture with 2/3 milk. Beat until smooth (2 min. at med. speed). Add remaining milk and eggs. Beat until smooth, about 2 minutes. Pour into 2 greased 8" layer pans. Bake in moderate oven (375) for 35 minutes. Cool and frost with Mocha Frosting. Mocha Frosting- 1/2 cup butter 1 egg yolk.. could use egg beaters for safety 2 tbs. strong coffee 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar Cream butter, add egg yolk, coffee, & melteed chocolate. Mix well, gradually adding sugar. Blend until smooth. Makes enough for 2 (8") layers.

Well, for as tired/sleepy as I am, I had a great giggle over all the comments! Please excuse any typos I might make. Made the mistake of cutting grass at noon. Not a good idea! Lou, thank you for the offer. I may take you up on it. Don't know how soon I'll get to them. We have our BIG family campout/antique gas hit an miss engine/steam show in a couple of weeks. I have the honor of getting two motor homes ready, preping any food in advance that I can, and do most of the cooking while there. Mom and Dad are only able to go if we all do all the work. DB & DSIL may not even be able to go this year, due to starting a new business. It's only about 20 minutes away for all of us, but if DB has classes, he can't close the studio. DD will help as much as she can, so will DS IF he doesn't have to work. Last count, with invited guests/famiy/friends, was 22 I think. Dad & I will move in on Wed. Show starts on Fri. Some prep we will do on Thurs, and have a steak fry that night. Breakfast menu so far is home fries by request, eggs, pancakes (the only thing besides a little meat of choice mom will eat for breakfst), bacon sausage, or ham. Lunch ham sandwiches. Fri night is chili, burgers for those who don't want chili. Sat same for breakfast and lunch. Supper is burgers and dogs. Potato salad for whatever meal anyone wants. Dad wants cauliflower with cheese on Thurs. Raw veggies available anytime. Sunday is leftovers! Any of you who want to sneak in, the WILL be plenty of food. I ALWAYS have food to bring home! Ann, no, wrong side of the family, tho my aunt did make them with that dough. Yummy! Lars, the whatever you called it sauce is cause I also asked for a cheese sauce to put over the cauliflower. Dad is remembering how his mom cooked! By the time I can remember her cooking, she was getting too sick for me to learn from her. Your cinnamon rolls sound fantastic, but I don't have the energy to go to that much work. Now, before I fall asleep at the computer, I'm headed for bed! I'm already wore out before the show even gets here! My fault. But I was trying to beat the rain on radar that ended up only being a few sprinkles. I'll get caught up on sleep and be off and running again. Then I'll sleep in a lot the following week! I'm happy to try to spoil him. We don't know how many more times they will be able to go. I said last year, I was going to do this the easy way this year. Well, the meat for the chili will be cooked and seasoned ahead and frozen. The burger patties will be made and frozen ahead. I'm taking the old roaster and dumping every thing in that for the chili and letting it go most of the day. Ham will go in a crock pot on warm with a bit of water for lunches first thing in the morning and they can eat lunch whenever! Will have to keep watch of Mom. She doesn't always know it's her sugar droppign when she doesn't feel good. Dad knows his. And yes, I know the cinnamon rolls aren't a good idea, but he will compensate for the treat. That's why I spoil him that weekend. Thanks all. Tami

Here is another option. Home Cookin Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table Meat Loaf Magnolia ================== My version of a meatloaf that I had in Magnolia's Restaurant in Charleston, SC. When we got home from vacation I set out to duplicate it because it was the first meatloaf I found that I actually liked. It was different because Magnolia's grilled the slices before serving and it didn't contain ketchup or tomato sauce like so many meatloaf recipes do. 1 1/2 pounds ground veal or mixture of beef and veal 1 small onion finely chopped 1 to 2 cloves of garlic 2 slices Italian/French Bread soaked in milk 2 eggs 1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 Tablespoons chopped parsley 1 tablespoons of dried herbs, (sage and Thyme, a small amount of rosemary olive oil Sauce Green peppercorns mushroons 1 to 2 cups chicken broth . Saute onion in olive oil until soft. Add minced garlic and saute for 30 seconds. Do not brown garlic Soak bread in milk In a large bowl add meat, dijon mustard, chopped parsley, herbs, onions and garlic and mix with hands. Squeeze bread to break up and add milk and bread to mixture. Add eggs. Mix well and season with salt and pepper. Saute a small piece to check for seasoning. Adjust to taste. Shape meatloaf into a rectangle about 8 X 4 x 3 inches high and place in a small roasting pan. Bake for 30 minutes and then add a small amount of broth to the pan to prevent the bottom from becoming to brown. Bake another 30 minutes and baste with the pan juices. Add more broth if necessary. Cook another 10 minutes or until the meatloaf is nicely browned. Let cool and wrap in foil and refrigerate. Reserve pan juices. Make a sauce by adding some green peppercorns and sauted mushrooms to the pan juices. Heat grill Slice meatloaf into 1/2 inch thick slices and grill on both sides until nicely marked and hot. Serve with mashed potatoes

These two posts might help you with the recipe arlinek. The first is from a guy who bought a package of the chili from Cupids and listed the ingredients. The second is from a guy who made a batch with canned chili, beer and canned tamales. You might want to add some of the seasonings mentioned in th e first post, ie cumin and oregano to get a better flavor. I might try this tonight, Hebrew National all beef hotdogs are on sale for $3. "I recently purchased from a Cupids location for $40.00 USD the chili as it is delivered to them from STOKES. The chili is delivered in two separate packages, the first being the Chili Sauce with meat and then the Tamale sauce with beef. On each was a label and here is what the ingredients are; Chili Sauce with Meat Beef Suet, Carrots, Cereal (Oats) Spices, Salt, Garlic Powder Tamale Sauce with Beef Beef, Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Water, Chili Pepper, Oregano, Cumin, Corn Meal, Salt & Garlic Powder I do not know the proportions of these ingredients, however I am certain that someone can figure that out now that I have supplied the ingredients. The guy that sold it to me instructed be to mix the two packages together and add water to the get the desired thickness. ThatÂs all Enjoy Richard" http://www.recipelink.com/mf/14/25164 and also this.... "I did some experimenting after reading the posts in this forum and came up with a close imitation of Cupid's chili dogs. Listen this. You will need: 1 pack of natural skin hot dogs hot dog buns 1 can of chili with no beans (Hormel's tastes a little strong. Find one that is a bit blander. I used a generic.) 1 can of Hormel's canned tamales some beer (I used Heineken) Steam the hot dogs and buns. Heat your can of chili in a pot. As the hot dogs and chili cook, take your can of tamales, stick them in a blender and liquify them (make sure to include all of the juice and no paper). Add the tamale mix to the chili. Now, what I noticed at Cupid's was a distinctive beer taste. So, I added beer to the Chili. This will give the chili a unique tanginess like no other. Pour in enough beer to taste. Not much is needed to give it that special spike! Stir all of the ingredients. It might be possible that the chili is too thin. Vaporize some of the extra liquid by leaving it on the stove for a bit and then letting it cool when you are satisfied with the consistency. This should thicken things up a bit. Slap a dog in a bun, add liberal amounts of mustard, and slather with the new chili/tamale/beer mix. I was quite surpised at how close this comes to Cupid's. It even has that reddish oily liquid at the top of the chili. Let me know what you think. Bon apetit!" and also this.... Here is a link that might be useful: Jonathan's Cupid Chili Sauce Imitation recipe