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| Wednesday, May 22, 2013 |
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Sine the Coke is brought to a boil, I’m sure all the bad parts cook out. :) |
I order that everytime I eat at Cracker-Barrel. It’s Yummy! |
I don’t see why, it’s not a hot drink. |
And really…. who asks what the ingredients are at a potluck? Really? Unless they absolutely love it and would make it anyways. |
The bakery at the WalMart in my town sells this and it is delish. They also sell Mountain Dew cake and Dr. Pepper cake. |
I don’t think it’d be a scandal unless it weren’t labeled as having Coke in it and someone got mad because they’d been “tricked” into eating it. |
kew beat me to it. Now I need to think of some other witty comeback. But that cake does sound divine. |
Ina Garten’s chocolate cake recipe calls for a couple of tablespoons of coffee to bring out the flavor of the chocolate. Since it’s in a cake and it’s no longer a “drink”, I figure I’m okay. |
I make this all the time for potlucks–Yankees love it. I make it with Co-Cola (that’s how it’s pronounced in the South) frosting, too. |
I think you would have to label it to have anybody say anything. I would eat this dish right up. I think the coke issue is slowly dying away. But there are still a straggler or 2 in every ward. |
I don’t think you’d have to label it if you used caffeine-free coke. I’d bet you couldn’t tell the difference in the outcome. |
I took caffeine-free soda to a recent youth activity to give to the youth. Then all the kids went out and purchased energy drinks that I’ve never even touched. |
Around here the kids are drinking lots of energy drinks during seminary. Lots and lots. The garbages are full of those huge cans |
Heidi–I am intrigued: at the pot-lucks you attend, do they generally label the dishes? List ingredients? Provide recipes? The ones I attend do not. I have actually taken this to a ward pot-luck. It was consumed as a chocolate cake. FWIW–I find the aversion to caffeinated drinks somewhat absurd if the person has no problem eating chocolate. I also have a BBQ chicken for crock pots that includes Coke–it’s yummy. |
I had a Bishop who did a youth fireside about Energy Drinks. |
I’ve made this with Dr. Pepper (including 3 T of Dr. Pepper in the frosting and less milk). It’s awesome. |
It sounds like Texas Ranch cake with coke. Nobody would have to know it’s made with coke. Now my recipe for chicken with white wind would have people begging for more. I’m considering it. |
Go ahead and label it. Then when no one eats it, you can take it home yourself. |
I’m disturbed that no one seems to think it is wrong to take a dish that you know some people don’t drink one of the ingredients because of religious feeling and think it is no big deal. I realize it isn’t quite the same as, say, alcohol. But, this sort of thing isn’t funny. |
Considering that Coke is not proscribed against in the Word of Wisdom, what is the issue? |
Sheesh, bring on the chocolate rum cake! |
Two sticks of margarine, two cups of sugar and a cup of confectioners’ sugar, and people are worried about less than a can of Coke in the mix? |
While it’s not an issue for nor would you do the same thing w me, I agree with jks #19, if you’re going to take it where you know someone might not want to consume it (even if you think it’s silly), label it, let them decide. You wouldn’t (I hope) take a dish with covert pork in it and not tell who you know may choose to eat kosher, why do it to your ward members? |
okay, don’t know what happened to that comment with the whole first line—don’t know where the nor would you do the same thing came from–huh |
@ESO – I don’t drink caffeinated drinks OR eat chocolate. The chocolate is mostly a matter of taste, though. Can’t stand the stuff. Makes it hard to find a decent dessert at potlucks, though, since most Mormons seem to think chocolate is the only dessert flavor available. On a more esoteric note, I find it odd that we (as members) will often give talks or lessons on the beauty of agency, and then willingly enslave ourselves to mundane things like food, television, and sports. Not that I’m innocent there, I just find it a strange quirk. |
I want everybody who’s mentioned recipes here to post them. The Dr. Pepper ribs? Want that recipe. |
Palad–in seeing how hooked on some things my family can get, I have come to think that we must have very addictive personalities and am thankful for several previous generations following the WoW. I have the feeling we would all be alcoholics without it. jks et al–I see your point but I have a REALLY hard time viewing abstention from colas (which is a folk interpretation of a commandment, although perhaps a healthful one) as on par with eating kosher or halal (explicitly scriptural) or vegetarianism. The people I know who are serious about eating in a strict dietary code, do not eat anything they cannot be sure meets their standards. That pretty much means that they do not eat food other people have prepared. Ditto for people with allergies–you just cannot count on anyone to keep your restrictions for you. Not drinking cola is an extension of the actual prohibition of “hot drinks.” If you ask someone what the extension is based on, they will tell you it is caffeine. Couldn’t you further extend that prohibition to chocolate? Of course. So if someone feels strongly about avoiding caffeine, I would think they would naturally also avoid what is very obviously a chocolate cake (and a gluttonous one, at that). |
Palad, Don’t let Clark Gobel hear you say that! Maybe you’ve just never had any good chocolate… |
I wonder what this good sister would think, then, when I had dinner at my bishop’s house some time back, and his wife served baby carrots cooked in Coca Cola. :-) Pretty good, too. |
I had lunch at the home of the brother that first translated the Book of Mormon into Portuguese on the day of the Oklahoma City Bombing. We knew because somehow he had CNN (never saw it before or since on my mission) and he left it on bombing news while he and his wife finished lunch preparations. Dessert was a plate of caramelized bananas, that smelled strongly of alcohol. I took one bite and knew it was strong stuff. My companion began to eat happily. I nudged him and said we probably shouldn’t eat it. He said that he was sure the alcohol had been cooked off. So we asked about the alcohol and whether it had been cooked off. The reply, “Of course not! I poured some of my best rum over it just before serving it!” That was awkward. |
You guys got it wrong… it’s ok as long as you serve it when coke is in season. When time of year is that again? |
John (30) – Again the “eat” vs. “drink” distinction. |
Yeah, I’m going to have to agree with JKS. I think its wrong to serve someone something if you know they wouldn’t consume it if they knew what was in it, especially if its not obvious. I personally don’t have a problem with drinking coke (at least not a problem that is tied to its caffeine content), and I don’t really think its all that logical to have a problem with coke. BUT.. that’s really not my call. If other people want to follow whatever rules they impose on themselves, I’m fine with that. So even though I don’t think the can of coke is a big deal, I’d NEVER purposely serve it to someone who I knew did think that. |
a random John – OT – I loved chocolate as a kid. During college I went a few months without it, and the next time I tried it I couldn’t stand it. It was evidently an acquired taste for me. Now I don’t even like the smell of it. |
arJ, I love that story. Was it Bananas Foster? That’s my favorite dessert. Reminds me of the time my companion and I had lunch at a member’s house and he started complaining that the sandwiches were made with Grey Poupon, which he held was verboten because it had white wine in it. The good sister who made the sandwiches just smiled and said, “Just pretend you don’t know.” Thankfully, my companion shut up and ate his sandwich. Some people make way to much out of WoW issues. If they’re going to be such sticklers, however, they better not eat anything they didn’t prepare themselves because most people will not tell you the recipe when they serve you a meal, nor do most restaurants. |
Easily scandalous. Very worth doing, and labeling. |
Dr Pepper ribs For the rub: For the glaze: Two racks of St Louis ribs Coat the ribs with the rub, wrap in plastic and place in the refrigerator for at least four hours. Heat the oven to 300 degrees and bring the ribs to room temperature. In a foil-lined large baking or roasting pan, arrange the ribs with the meat side up, pour in 1/2 cup of Dr Pepper, cover pan tightly with foil and place in the oven. Meanwhile, place all the glaze ingredients in a pan, bring to a boil and then simmer for 20 minutes until thick and syrupy. After an hour and a half, take the ribs out of the oven and spread some of the glaze on each side of the racks. Continue basting/cooking them at 20 to 30 minute intervals until tender, then glaze one more time, broil for a couple minutes You can do all this on the grill too and just skip the boiling, use indirect heat and all that jazz. |
Amen to the comment about chocolate. There are so many wonderful flavors in the world, and everyone’s addicted to chocolate… |
Coke in a recipe? Are you kidding me. Section 89 is among the most misunderstood doctrines in the church. The “Fat Bishop” violates the Word of Wisdom. Coke in a cake, gimme a break. |
Soy, peanuts and wheat are common allergies. I usually label stuff I take to pot-lucks, or else directly tell the people I know who are allergic. I often cook with soy or peanut oil. One brother told me he appreciated me indicating I cooked the ground beef in my chili with peanut oil, because his toddler son was highly allergic to peanuts. I usually write it on a 3×5″ or 4×6″ index card, and fold it in half, and place near the pot. We had a sister missionary who was highly allergic to wheat products, so I wrote a similar note for my pot-luck dishes indicating whether stuff had wheat or was wheat-free, such as rice noodles. My vote: It’s best to disclose. But I must confess, I once took a soup/stew whose main ingredient was seaweed, and it was flavored with diced Spam, to a singles dinner. I advertised it as “greens with pork flavoring.” And told people afterward. Some of our African-American brothers and sisters liked it, even after knowing what it was. One missionary stopped eating his when he found out. |
Bookslinger–you are very contentious. |
Huh? Seaweed and Spam disguised as “greens and pork flavoring” may have been sneaky, but not contentious. Oh, and a Hawaiian sister also liked my seaweed soup, though I didn’t put in Spam that time. (But Hawaiians are generally in favor of Spam. It’s really big there.) |
ESO- I hope this isn’t referring to me. If I called it scandalous, it was probably in a joking way. I have made this cake several times. I was always a little paranoid about being seen buying Coke at the store however… |
