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Thread #62925   Message #1019418
Posted By: Barbara
15-Sep-03 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: recipes in songs
Subject: Lyr Add: ORANGE COCOA CAKE (Lou and Peter Berryman
The Berryman and Berryman song, Orange Cocoa Cake actually has the whole recipe in it as well as many other things including bologne, chocolate covered malt balls, family planning and a tick removal. I have the words around here someplace, but I'm not finding them.
Ha! Here you go:

ORANGE COCOA CAKE
(Lou and Peter Berryman)

Hello Joanie, this is me
Say, I got that recipe
For Orange Cocoa Cake so,
Joanie, get a pencil quick
Cause, can you believe I'm by myself?
Al's at work the kids are out
They're playing house, the three of them,
they're all out on the deck.

One half cup unsweetened cocoa
One half cup of boiling water
A quarter cup of butter and
A quarter cup of shortening,
Two cups sugar, one-eighth teaspoon salt,
teaspoon of vanilla, one and one half
teaspoons baking soda, s'cuse me just a sec.

Dave, dear, I'm right over here
Would you like some crackers and balogne?
Are you having fun? Don't get too much sun.
Please excuse me while I talk to Joanie.

Two eggs, Joanie -- David! David!
Crackers dear, not malted milk balls,
In the cupboard -- Joanie, one cup
Buttermilk or sour milk,
One and three-fourths cups unsifted --
Ring balogne, In the fridge! Un-
Sifted general purpose -- David!
Did you really check?

One and three-fourths cups unsifted
General purpose flour, Joanie,
There I finally got it out! --
OK David, malted milk balls,
Only five though -- three-fourths teaspoon
Grated orange peel, a quarter teaspoon
orange extract, a-oho, s'cuse me just a sec.

Liz, Ben, I'm here in the den
Would you like some crackers and balogne?
Are you having fun? Don't get too much sun.
Please excuse me while I talk to Joanie.

Joanie, one more eighth teaspoon of --
Lizzie, what's the matter dear? --
Baking soda, Joanie -- Lizzie,
Don't hit Benji, that's uncalled for,
That's OK, Ben -- Joanie, three more
Tablespoons of buttermilk or sour milk --
oh, come here, Liz, What's that on your neck?

Now don't worry, Liz, it's only one real tiny tick,
Someone, David, go and get the tweezers,
Joanie, maybe -- in the bathroom --
Joanie, maybe we should -- Ben, don't cry
Have one more malted milk ball,
Lizzie, Mom will be right there,
S'cuse me just a sec.

(double time)
Really gotta go Joan, see about a tick
Then we're gonna have a party with the neighborhood kids,
Then Lizzie's gotta go to an appointment at eleven,
And we're taking Benji too, because he has to buy a costume
He's in a play tomorrow over at the church,
Isn't it tomorrow, Benji, Benji? Where'd you go?
Lizzie, isn't Benji gonna play a pizza pie tomorrow?
I remember now, a pumpkin pie.

Lizzie can't go, there's a party in the park
For all the people with pets
And you know she's gotta go to that
Daddy gotta take her and the kitty in the Chevy,
After that we gotta reconnoiter over at the Big Boy,
Gotta go, Joan, by the way, you ever reconsider
Getting married, having children of your own?
Turn the television down, your mother's on the telephone,
Call you back, Joan, too-da-loo!

Blessings,
Barbaraa