GRANDMA ZORBAUGH'S SUGAR CAKE RECIPE

[Preheat oven to 350 degrees]

Bowl No. 1: Mix 2 cups of sugar with ½ cup of butter. Add 3 eggs to this mixture, one egg at a time. Then, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla.

Bowl No. 2: Mix 1 cup of buttermilk and 1 teaspoon of baking powder together. Wisp this mixture until it becomes frothy.

Bowl No. 3: Mix 4 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon of baking soda together.

Then, while stirring Bowl No. 1, alternately add parts of bowl 2 and 3 to bowl 1 until all the ingredients are combined into bowl No. 1. A regular teaspoon full of batter makes a fair-sized cake (a/k/a cookie). Top each cake with dash of colored sugar before baking.

Bake 10-11 minutes, depending on oven.

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I'm posting Grandma Zorbaugh's sugar cake (a/k/a cookie) recipe on this blog today because it's my blog and I can post anything I want. Plus, last night there was a full moon and that frequently brings out the weirdness in people. If you've been listening to the Republican presidential candidate debates, you know that America is supposedly on the road to ruin. What better way to enjoy the trip than by packing a bunch of Grandma Zorbaugh's sugar cakes! You can thank me later for posting her recipe.

Grandma Zorbaugh was a woman who lived life pretty much on her own terms. She drank and smoked and worked well into her eighties, cooked with enthusiasm for anybody who dropped by unannounced and never missed an opportunity to help out a person in need. She spoke her mind, laughed at her own foibles and had a genuine soft spot for kids, no matter who's they were.

When my oldest daughter was three years old, she took to calling Grandma Zorbaugh "beer grandma", for obvious reasons. Most grandmothers would have objected to such a name, but not mine. She'd been around young kids long enough, having spent her entire career as an elementary school cook, to know that they call things pretty much as they see things, and she took my daughter's label as a compliment.

I miss grandma "Z", but I know her memory will live on as long as we bake those sugar cakes.