-=> Dale Shipp wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DS> Sounds like another one of those "you don't want to know"
moments with
 DS> respect to repair attempts.  How old was the car?

 DD> Oh, but I did know.   Bv)=  And know right away that even the most
 DD> rudimentary of band-aid fixes was going to exceed the value of the
 DD> vehicle -- even if it would keep the thing from splitting in half on
 DD> hitting a bump or canyon-sized chuck hole.

 DS> I may well have said this to you before, but I did once see the trailer
 DS> of an 18 wheeler that was split in half on the side of the road.  We
 DS> were heading back through NY State and they were doing road repair.
 DS> They had scrapped the road as for resurfacing, but had left some fairly
 DS> large bumps in the road at regular intervals, maybe 6-9 inches high.  I
 DS> suspect that the truck went over them a bit too fast and got a see saw
 DS> effect which his trailer could not stand.

Don't believe I have seen that from you. I have seen semi-trailers
adversely affected by rough roads a number of times. Including one carrying
large rolls of newsprint that buckled to the point that the centre of the
trailer's underbelly dragged on the pavement and the sides bowed out. It
was determined to have been caused by regular undulations in the concrete
pavement of I-69 between Anderson, IN and Auburn, IN.

That was one of the roughest to drive stretches of interstate it was ever
my misfortune to experience. Soon after the newsprint incident the road was
overlayed with asphalt, smoothing out the waves and making I-69 a magic
carpet ride - comparatively speaking.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: Bumpy Highway Cake
 Categories: Cakes, Desserts, Candies, Dairy, Nuts
      Yield: 10 Inch cake

     14 oz Can sweetened condensed milk
           - NOT evaporated milk,
           - divided
      1 c  Butter flavour Crisco
      4 lg Eggs
      1 c  Granulated sugar
      1 c  Brown sugar; firmly packed
    1/2 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder
      1 c  Buttermilk
  2 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Cinnamon
    1/2 ts Salt
      2 ts Vanilla
      1 c  Hot water

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    1/3 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder
      3 tb Oil

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    1/4 c  Butter Flavor Crisco
           Reserved sweetened condensed
           - milk
      1 c  Confectioners' sugar
    1/2 c  Miniature marshmallows;
           - halved
      1 c  Chopped nuts

  CAKE: Heat oven to 350+#F/175+#C.

  Spray 10" (12-cup) Bundt pan with vegetable oil spray.
  Measure 1/3 cup condensed milk for cake; reserve remaining
  for frosting. Combine shortening, eggs, granulated sugar,
  brown sugar and 1/3 cup condensed milk in large bowl. Beat
  at medium speed of electric mixer until creamy. Add cocoa
  and buttermilk; blend thoroughly.

  Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Add to
  creamed mixture. Stir in vanilla. Beat at low speed to
  blend. Beat at medium speed 5 minutes. Stir in hot water
  just until blended. Do not overbeat. (Batter will be
  fairly thin.) Pour batter into prepared pan.

  Bake at 350+#F/175+#C for 35 to 50 minutes, or until cake
  springs back in center when touched lightly with finger or
  until wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  Cool 5 minutes before removing from pan.

  DRIZZLE: Combine cocoa and oil; stir to blend. Drizzle a
  little on serving plate. Place cake on fluted-side up on
  drizzle. Cool 15 minutes.

  FROSTING: In a medium bowl, combine shortening with
  reserved condensed milk and confectioners' sugar. Beat at
  high speed until glossy and of spreading consistency.
  Spread on warm cake. Sprinkle with marshmallows, then
  nuts. Decorate with remaining chocolate Drizzle.

  Serve warm or cool completely.

  Makes 1 10" Bundt cake (16 to 20 servings).

  NOTE: If desired in the Drizzle recipe, substitute 4 bars
  (1 ounce each) unsweetened baking chocolate, melted to the
  cocoa-and-oil mixture.

  Submitted by Karen Herrick to Yankee Magazine

  RECIPE FROM: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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