Friday, March 14, 2008

Some Things You Just Know

I used to have a rather strange friend who understood friendship meant
they lied to you, cheated on you and well I had allot of strays over the
years who just had no conception of what a friend was.

This friend though did give me her German Chocolate Cake recipe which I
still have and frequently enough make it from scratch for my birthday.
Most people think Duncan Hines is what cake is or those rubbery things
one purchases out of a bakery for birthdays......but for someone who has
actually baked a real cake and knows flour intimately........you can
spot real cake a plate away off.
My sister once sitting by me told me a cake she baked was a really good
cake. I noticed her rather wet, crumbling thing of deep color was a box
cake.........with some moisture additive and you only get crumbly in
cakes from vegetable oil.....so I just smiled and nodded what a good
cake it was knowing it was not.


Real cake is velvet smooth. It looks that way, it acts that way and when
you put it into your mouth it feels that way.
Real cake also has a pastel color to it no matter the color, because
real cake achieves it's reality from one taking the time to beat egg
whites into a frothy plume of splendor and then with delicate folds
incorporating it into heavy batter so you end up with all that white egg
containing air separating all those deep darks of chocolate or even
whites.......so it just looks soft in color and soft to touch.
The secret of real cake is the whipped egg whites as the entire batter
never is a part of the egg, but only coats it to make two bodies as one
in a new creation.


I love cooking as is quite obvious as one forms flour as certainly as a
wood chisel upon wood, a ball pein upon metal to make it flow or the
word of a verse flowing into the infinite cascade of a poem. There is
nothing like watching egg whites folding with egg yolks and sifted
flower to form the impossible of a batter which can not sustain itself
as it is too light and yet being heavy it still lives beyond gravity's
measure.


I can remember the first time a rasp flowed in my hand and it seemed
after so much struggle that wood become water and I simply moved it with
fluidity to be shaped to my will........I can remember my puzzlement at
writing a poem and it actually was masterful the first time........I can
remember the folding of egg whites into batter and cake was born from
the womb of darkness to the knowledge as this child was raised to life
that I knew by sight what was real and what was not.


I know by sight that America is not the garden planted by God and I know
by feel that there is no need to show concern in touting revolution,
anarchy nor whimpering slovenity to accept enslavement, because the
forces which draw the weapon will exterminated by the weapon and the
forces which foment discord will be swept away by it.


The things of God remain and if he scatters His children He will attend
them and if is children remain He will be there.


America has breathed this debauchery before and breathed the righteous
breath of God before. Once upon a time Moses was given the Law and once
upon a time James Madison was given the Constitution. Once upon a time
Mannaseh had these children burning their own children to a fire god and
once upon a time Bill Clinton taught these children greater depravity.


America is now the same half baked cake unfit for use for you can never
rebake an unbaked cake and you can never make use of something half spoiled.


The children do not recognize these things or their lack of virtues and
will have to be shown that their recipe is not the real cake God
sojourned with a people for.


Some things you just know by looking at them. Some thing simply are.
Some people bake cakes and know what cake is and some people eat cake
and do not realize they are not eating the real thing.
Some will never know the difference, but that is quite fine as the real
desert would be a waste upon their palate in any situation.


The real children of creativity though will know the product just as
certain as God recognizes His creation.


Some things you just know..........but you only know because God's Holy
Spirit informs you of the things you must know.


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