Kindle Once Again - this time for Walk, Hike, Saunter

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 Last time I did this was Dec 2017. At the moment, memory of how to do it is pretty foggy, but luckily I have my earlier blog posts on this to refresh my memory so printing them out to review. (look for Kindle label in this blog to find).  This book is a little easier than the others - text and inline photos, a table of contents, but no index. Susan has promised it will be out in two and a half weeks, so will try to do that. My immediate issue is that I remember that I have to make some changes to the Indesign file before putting out the epub file that I will update for Kindle, but don't remember quite what they were. Pausing to read my prior posts, and to review Kindle code for Healing Miles . From my 2012 notes I saw that to get reliable chapter breaks, each chapter had to be a separate xhtml file. The default of Indesign is to put out one big xhtml file, but it will break on a style, so I need to be sure the current Indesign document (for Walk, Hike, Saunter ) has an appropriat

Rum Cake - A rediscovered recipe

I picked up my James Beard Cookbook the other day, looking for his curry sauce recipe, which I had not made for several years. In the fold of the book was this piece of yellow lined paper with a handwritten recipe for rum cake. The last time I had made this recipe was maybe 30 years ago, and origin of the recipe long forgotten.

We had a need for dessert to share in a couple of days, and on seeing this recipe I was fixated on preparing it. This is not something you want to share with anyone who might be fighting an alcohol problem, but outside of that, delicious, though calorie laden. I was asked to share the recipe, so here it is: No photo - we ate it before I thought of memorializing it.

Rum Cake:

The cake:

1 cup chopped pecans (optional)
1 package yellow cake mix
1 package instant vanilla pudding
4 eggs
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup Meyers Rum (any strong flavored dark rum will do)

The Glaze:

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup rum
1 cup sugar

Preparation:

Preheat Oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit
Grease and flour 10 inch tube pan
Sprinkle pecans on bottom of pan
Mix all cake ingredients together
 Bake 1 hour. Invert, Fork top to make multiple holes for rum
pour on glaze

For the Glaze, melt butter, stir in water
add sugar, Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in rum at the last.

Serve to your delighted guests.

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