PEACH SCHNAPPS ANYONE??

Anyone ever heard of Peach Schnapps?!? That was my question for the day Friday, but I sure know about them now. I saw a recipe for a Peach Pound Cake that sounded so good. It sounded like a good summer time cake. We were having a Sunday School fellowship the next day so I thought that would be a perfect thing to bring. It said you needed to soak the peaches in 1/8 cup sugar and 1/4 peach schnapps. So I headed to the grocery store on a search for peach schnapps. I had no idea what that was but figured I could find it. I looked in the fruit section. No luck. Next to the cooking section. No luck. Maybe it's like an ice cream topping? Looked there. No luck. Juice Section? No luck. Hmmmmm. They must be out of it. So I go to another grocery store. Did the same search. No luck. OK - I have absolutely no idea what these peach schnapps are. So I decided to show my stupidity and just ask the cashier what in the world peach schnapps are. She said, "Honey, they aren't called schnapps (with a short vowel "a" sound) but it is called schnapps (with a short vowel "o" sound). So I said the word correctly this time and said, "OK - so what are peach schnapps"? She said, "Honey, you are in the wrong store. You can find that in the liquor store around the corner." Ha.....I couldn't help but laugh. I told her I had never been in a liquor store in my life. She assured me that this was only used for flavor and that the alchohol is burned out of it through the cooking process - like a rum cake. She said you couldn't get drunk off it unless you "maybe" drank a gallon of this stuff. Well, I decided I wasn't about to go in a liquor store so I would send Randy in the morning - ha!!! He wasn't too excited about going in there either but he said if I would call first and make sure they even had it, he may go for me. You know....have it ready and waiting for him so he could just run in and run out? So I called the place and pronounced the word right and everything!! I must say it felt so weird looking up a liquor store phone number in the phone book and calling it. Well, they did have the stuff so I asked how much it was. She said it was $9.00. I asked how big the jar was and she said it was 1/5. Well, I had no idea how big 1/5 was and I didn't want to act more stupid than I already was so just said thanks and hung up. It sounded pretty tiny to me and I didn't want to pay that much so I just made up my own concoction to soak those peaches in. The cake ended up being very good. But this cake sure did have a story behind it and we laughed so much over it. So if anyone ever wants to make this cake and wants to know what Peach Schnapps are, I can sure tell you where to get them!!

Summer News

I thought I would get caught up on my blogging. Right after Bethany's birthday, on Father's Day, we left for Florida with the youth group from our church. We took a nice bus...watched videos.....snacked.......slept......and visited. The youth trip was amazing. I've been on youth trips before and there is usually some sort of girl drama that goes on. There was no drama and no problems this trip. The speaker was amazing and I absolutely LOVED the music. We did mission work during the day and had Bible studies and conference that evening. The last day we went to Universal Studios which was a blast. I think the kids highlight of the trip was seeing my hair wet and nasty from the rides (ha).

Our garden is gone now but we are still enjoying the fruits of our labor which I put up. Oh by the way....my arm looks great now after the bad burn I got from making plum jelly. A full quart size jar of boiling water fell on it. You can hardly tell it now.

We are enjoying the summer, it is soooooo HOT!!!! We haven't had much rain at all. Everything is so dry. It will soon be time for school to start back up. I already have my students curriculum all ready to go. We will start the first part of August.

Hope everyone is having a great summer and I would love to hear from you!!