If U'd like to see a photo of the Pumpkin Cheesecake w/ Cognac Sour Cream Topping==>

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A guest at a Sept brunch I cooked for took photos of the food so:

1) Go to www.sheilassentimentaljourney.blogspot.com

2) Enter 'brunch' in "search blog" space (upper left)

3) Scroll down a bit past the antique kid's toy pedal car and past pic of the hostesses Mary Ann & Bob Williamson, and you'll see my grub!

--Two warmers have savory Breakfast Strudels on them.

--Next shot has the cheesecake in the foreground (I baked it in a hot water bath, and it came out the smoothest and creamiest I've ever tasted it. See Thread #12177 for my tweak with the water bath approach).

Behind the cheesecake is a basket of the Brandied Applesauce Raisin Muffins and back past that is a bowl of fresh fruit with the cooked rum & lime dressing. Also did a couple pitchers of the Citrus punch. (Punch & strudel recipes at #42 of MENUS. Muffin recipe's at Thread #11652. I have a sneaking feeling that the fruit salad + dressing was posted at Gail's so if somebody wants it here, I can re-post.)

 
Your blog is priceless!! A treasure for those kids and grandkids

I learned to drive in a Studebaker like yours!! Was it green????

 
NOT my blog, I'm sorry to say. It's the blog of one of the guests, Sheila Thompson, who attended

the brunch of the Williamsons, but I've just E-mailed hostess Mary Ann to pass along everyone's compliments to Sheila Thompson. Sheila will be thrilled. I guess I should take Sheila along with me on all future catering gigs so she can capture my food moments!

 
oli, Mary Ann and Bob built a huge garage to house their myriad antique cars just a

few years ago. It is quite the showplace with 2 furnaces and 2 commercial air conditioners. Bob is a Chevy man, and they have at least 6 classics on display--he is currently overhauling the Impala he drove when he first courted Mary Ann back in the 60s.

 
Yes, I did learn to drive in a Studebaker, but it was a 1948 pickup truck and the folks would

send me out in a hay field to practice driving and shifting (truck had a 3-speed floor stick shift) after all the alfalfa was cut, dried & baled. I was about 10 years old then. I was driving tractors, cars and trucks with ease by the time I was 12. The first car I remember driving was also a Studebaker Champion, but it was brown.

I'm originally from South Bend, IN, and my dad worked at Studebakers for nearly 20 years. His father also worked there, but in the pre-auto era, back when they made and sold buggies and horse-drawn carriages & wagons.

I was around 14 when Studebakers folded and all employees were out of a job. My husband and I still think the Avanti is one of the sleekest car designs ever manufactured.

 
My Dad loved Studebakers. He bought a red and white Silver Hawk, which I got to drive to school

(2 3-barrel carburetors). The first time I got it after I got my license I got a drag racing ticket with the car full of girlfriends! He used to really watch the odometer when he let me have it!! Great car. The next one was a Golden Hawk, which my little sister totalled. She later (much later) bought a Studebaker truck which she drove all over California until just a couple of years ago.

 
And I forgot! In the George H. W. Bush museum in College Station you can see his maroon (lucky for

the Aggies) Studebaker sedan he and Barbara drove when they were first married!

 
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