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May's Recipe
Blackberry Wine Cake
1 box white cake mix
4 eggs
1 cup Crisco oil
1 box blackberry gelatin (dry)
1 1/3 cups blackberry wine
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Mix first four ingredients and 1 cup of wine together. Pour into well-greased bundt pan. Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees. While cake is baking, mix 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar with 1/3 cup blackberry wine.
Remove cake from pan and while warm, punch holes over cake with fork. Pour powdered sugar mix over cake for a glaze.
submitted by Evelyn McManus, Cambridge
Editor’s Note: The cake is moist and very good. Some variations of this recipe would be to use red or black raspberry gelatin. When you use red gelatin it makes the cake red and then you can ice it with a white glaze.
Courtesy: OurOhio.org.
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Spring Bulbs After Bloom
Once spring flowering bulbs finish bloom, proper handling and care of perennial ones will help them to bloom again next year. The first question to answer is, which of your bulbs are perennial? This may be difficult with some tulips, most of which are treated as annuals.
Chances are, if your bulbs grew and
bloomed this spring, they are hardy in your area. If they should have been hardy but didn’t come up or bloom, there could be several reasons. If the soil is too wet (bulbs like good drainage), they could have rotted. Something could have eaten them, above or below ground. Perhaps they started growing last fall, or early in the spring, only to have the buds killed by cold.
A couple rules apply to all bulbs in addition to providing them with good soil drainage. When planting, hopefully you added some bulb fertilizer or source of phosphorus (for healthy roots). Before, and during, bloom or both are good times to apply more bulb fertilizer. This can be a granular form as bulbs are emerging. Or, you can water with a liquid fertilizer. The key is to provide nutrients then as the leaves are making food for next year.
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