FRIENDSHIP CAKE

Friendship Cake

Because the relationship between Ruth and Naomi is often seen as the prototype of an ideal friendship, we thought we'd end this chapter with the following recipe. It takes 10 days, but it's worth it!
Yeast Mixture
1 package yeast
1 cup warm water
Do not use a mixer. Do not refrigerate. Use the same teacup throughout and a very large bowl. Use the cup to make up the yeast mixture. When mixture is ready (i.e., frothing), pour it into the bowl and proceed:
Day 1: Add 1 cup of granulated sugar and 1 cup of plain flour to the yeast mix. Do not stir.
Day 2: Stir well. Add 1 cup of milk.
Days 3 & 4: Do nothing!
Day 5: Same as Day 1.
Day 6: Same as Day 2.
Days 7, 8, & 9: Do nothing!
Day 10: Stir well. Remove 3 cupfuls and give to 2 friends with a copy of this recipe! Set one aside for your own use—this will be the base for your next Friendship Cake.
On day 10, preheat oven to 325°F. Add the following ingredients, in order:
Cake

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 heaping tsp. cinnamon
• 2 heaping tsp. baking powder
• 1 or 2 cooking apples (peeled, cored, and chopped)
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups plain flour
• ⅔ cup corn oil (or similar)
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped
• ½ cup raisins
• ½ cup maraschino cherries
• confectioners? sugar

Mix well. Put mixture into a large roasting pan. Sprinkle top with confectioners' sugar. Bake for 1-½ hours. Let cool before serving.
Yield: 8–12 servings
Source: Adapted from The Scots Independent Newspaper Online—The Flag in the Wind,www.scotsindependent.org/features/food/german_cake.htm Friendship & Scripture Cake
There are more recipes that go with the Reapers Meal that i will show in the following weeks

Ruth 2:14-16
14 At mealtime Boaz said to Ruth, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.” When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.
15 As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, don't embarrass her.
16 “Rather, pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don't rebuke her.”


Ruth was invited by Boaz for a noontime meal.  She was to partake of the reapers lunch shows that it was very unique since Boaz was aJjew and Ruth was considered a gentile.  Jews did not usuallysit down to eat with gentiles or women