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2 tablespoons lemon zest
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt By Lucie Winborne
3/4 cup (11/2 sticks) butter, softened (do not * In 2020, a lightning bolt extending a total of
substitute margarine) 477.2 miles spread across Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas, setting a new world record for the
4 ounces cream cheese, softened longest flash.
* Rubber bands last longer if you refrigerate
4 eggs them.
* Rooms at the Null Stern (“zero star”) Hotel
2 tablespoons milk are situated in repurposed nuclear bunkers and
include open-air mountain rooms with equally
1 teaspoon Pantry Double Strength Vanilla zero walls. The designers obviously weren’t kid-
ding about that rating.
* In 2002, NASA intern Thad Roberts stole a
Powdered sugar (optional)
safe full of moon rocks so he and his girlfriend
could have “sex on the moon.” Their other-
1. Preheat oven to 325 F. Spray Stoneware worldly romantic encounter backfired when
Fluted Pan with nonstick cooking spray. Com- they later tried to sell the $21 million worth
bine flour, granulated sugar, lemon zest, poppy of rocks. Roberts was caught and sentenced to
seeds, baking powder, and salt in a stainless, eight years in prison.
two-quart mixing bowl; mix well. In a stainless * And speaking of romance: Tinder’s not just for
four-quart mixing bowl, beat butter and cream humans! Well, not at the Dutch zoo that cre-
cheese on high speed of handheld mixer for 1 ated a “Tinder for orangutans” to help a female
minute, or until blended (mixture will form a named Samboja find a breeding partner. The
stiff paste). primate was shown photos of potential mates
from an international breeding program on a
2. In a small batter bowl, whisk eggs, milk tablet, but unfortunately her mother got hold of
and vanilla until blended. Add egg mixture to it ... and smashed it to pieces.
cream cheese mixture in four additions, beating * Poet W.B. Yeats and magician Aleister Crowley
2 minutes after each addition. (Do not under- were such bitter rivals in the world of the occult
mix). that Yeats once kicked Crowley down a flight of
stairs for being a proponent of “black magic.”
3. Pour batter into pan. Bake 55 to 60 minutes * Only humans have chins.
or until cake tester inserted near the center * In 2012, the police chief of Vaughn, New
comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 10 minutes. Mexico, stepped down because his own crimi-
Loosen cake from sides of pan; carefully invert nal record prevented him from carrying a gun.
onto a stackable cooking rack, keeping pan That left just a drug-sniffing dog named Nikita Need Help
over cake. Cool completely. as the only certified member of the town’s police
department.
4. Place cake on serving platter. Sprinkle with * Trained pigeons can tell the difference be- Installing
powdered sugar or prepare glaze, if desired. tween paintings by Pablo Picasso and Claude
Monet. Starlink?
***
For glaze: Combine 11/2 cups powdered sugar Thought for the Day: “What you get by achiev-
and enough lemon juice to make a thick frost- ing your goals is not as important as what you A ordable
ing. Spread glaze over top of cake. become by achieving your goals.” -- Zig Ziglar
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