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                    [Summary] => Do you have a simple recipe for a delicious macaroni salad? I’ve always wanted to make a good macaroni salad, but I never have the proper ingredients. – Lenny Flores, Production, Fil-Pacific


A good old-fashioned dressing for macaroni salad mixes together 1 cup of heavy cream and 1 cup of sour cream. Layer this dressing with 1 lb. of cooked elbow macaroni. Add 4 Tbsps. sweet pickle relish and enough grated cheese.
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Do you have a recipe for chocolate cake? – CLSA, European Biotechnology Node for Interaction with China (EBNIC), China

Please send me a recipe for moist chocolate cake. – Esmin Generale

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Here’s a simple recipe for a basic butter pound cake. You can make variations to the recipe by adding crushed walnuts. Sweet raisins or black currants that have been soaked in dark rum can be added, as well, topped with halved green cherries. This basic recipe is also known to be a good base for wedding cakes:
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Here are some one-minute ’wiches. (Toast your bread slices lightly to bring out the nutrients!):
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                    [Summary] => Do you have a simple recipe for a delicious macaroni salad? I’ve always wanted to make a good macaroni salad, but I never have the proper ingredients. – Lenny Flores, Production, Fil-Pacific


A good old-fashioned dressing for macaroni salad mixes together 1 cup of heavy cream and 1 cup of sour cream. Layer this dressing with 1 lb. of cooked elbow macaroni. Add 4 Tbsps. sweet pickle relish and enough grated cheese.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133788 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1194547 [AuthorName] => Golly Bon and Bon Farolan-Gutierrez [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 145696 [Title] => The secret to rich chocolate cake [Summary] => Do you have a recipe for a rich and moist chocolate cake? – Elizabeth Pajelann, Singnet, Singapore

Do you have a recipe for chocolate cake? – CLSA, European Biotechnology Node for Interaction with China (EBNIC), China

Please send me a recipe for moist chocolate cake. – Esmin Generale

[DatePublished] => 2002-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133788 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1194547 [AuthorName] => Golly Bon and Bon Farolan-Gutierrez [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 144959 [Title] => The return of the butter pound cake [Summary] => Sometime ago, you featured a recipe for butter pound cake. I hope you can reprint the recipe for all of us who missed it the first time. – Cristina G. Panes

Here’s a simple recipe for a basic butter pound cake. You can make variations to the recipe by adding crushed walnuts. Sweet raisins or black currants that have been soaked in dark rum can be added, as well, topped with halved green cherries. This basic recipe is also known to be a good base for wedding cakes:
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Here are some one-minute ’wiches. (Toast your bread slices lightly to bring out the nutrients!):
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