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2FI ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1996 WHAT'S COOKING SARAH CASEY NEWMAN Easy Cake With A Twist Of Orange Was A Suprise Hit CATHERINE BARDON of Florissant is an 81-year-old great-grandmother with fond memories of "the good old days." With the help of computer, she's also a thoroughly modern cook. She plunged into the computer age eight years ago, when she began do Hungry for more food news? Turn to PostFax, a free fax-on-demand service. Simply dial (314) 865-8585 from a touch-tone phone. Simple instructions will tell you how to get information.

You It lay i CLjUbut unc uwwunicni ol call. where she lives. And, one of her favorite culinary activities, to bake. Cakes are her specialty, and the following is one of her biggest hits. "It has kind of a funny little history to it," she said.

"My niece had tasted this cake at a friend's house and said she wanted to bring one to our family barbecue. I tried to talk her out of it because it didn't sound like one that would go well with barbecue. "She thought it would be a good cake for any kind of meal, so I let her bring it and was glad she did. Although there were several other cakes, hers was the only one that was entirely gone at the end of the day." The cake started out as a sheet cake about 10 years ago. But after Bardon added the recipe to her collection, she made it as a three-layer birthday cake for a nephew and he has been asking for "Aunt Catherine's cake" for his birthday ever since.

"I've never found anyone who hasn't liked this cake," Bardon said. ing the Sunday bulletins for her church. That led to computer classes at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley in Ferguson. Then, she said, a grandson who is a DOC.

DESCRIPTION 3036 Cold Soups: curried vichyssoise, strawberry soup, red-fruit soup, creamy vegetable soup. 3038 Cooking With Veal: Orzo with sun-dried tomatoes, veal piccata. 3037 Tuna and white bean salad. pineapple 1 (12-ounce) container frozen nondairy topping, thawed For cake: Coat a 9-by-13-inch cake pan or 3 (9-inch) layer cake pans with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

In large bowl of electric mixer, combine cake mix, eggs, oil and oranges with their juice. Mix on medium speed for 4 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until cake tests done. Let cake cool completely before preparing frosting.

For frosting: Stir pudding mix into pineapple until juice is thick. Stir in whipped topping. Use to frost sheet cake or to fill and frost layer cake. Yield: 24 servings as a sheet cake; 16 servings as a layer cake. Recipes for this feature have not been tested by the Post-Dispatch unless so noted.

We go over the recipes carefully with the contributors and rewrite them as needed. To be considered for What's Cooking, just send us your favorite recipe, along with a short introductory paragraph. Or, nominate a friend or relative to be featured. Write to What's Cooking, co Sarah Casey Newman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 900 North Tucker Boulevard, St.

Louis, Mo. 63101. POSTS Hear Phil Lempert, expert on grocery prices and shopping tips, on PostLine every day. Call (314) 923-2323 and then tap in 7031. POSTd Sam LeonePost-Dispatch Catherine Bardon's friends and family all enjoy her easy mandarin orange cake.

computer specialist in California, "fixed up a computer for me." Bardon immediately went to work typing all her recipes into her computer. Last year, she selected some of her favorites (and some favorites of her two children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren) and compiled them into a 33-page cookbook. She planned to print two copies of the book: one for her daughter and one for her daughter-in-law. But friends began asking for copies. So far, Bardon has given out 35 copies of her book, which she estimates has just under a hundred recipes in it.

Among her favorites are her recipe for boarding house baked beans I got when I lived in a boarding house, so they really are boarding house baked beans," she said) and MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE Catherine Bardon, Florissant For cake: Nonstick cooking spray 1 (2-layer-size) box yellow cake mix (Bardon uses Hines) 4 eggs Vi cup vegetable oil 1 (1 1 -ounce) can Mandarin oranges, undrained www.stlnet.compostnet POSTnet is Pulitzer's community information service on the Internet, giving you fresh wire news, archives and more. To subscribe, call 535-5555. her recipe for meatloaf, which was such a hit when she took it to one of her church's Lenten potlucks that she was asked to make it for every potluck the rest of the season. Cooking for potlucks and doing the Sunday bulletins are only two of the things Bardon does at Bethel United Church of Christ. She's also the secretary for vacation Bible school.

She's in charge of updating the directory each year. And she edits the church's 32-page newspaper, which comes out every month. She also finds time to bowl twice a week. To take more computer classes (by the end of October, she expects to be an experienced surfer on the Internet). To organize potluck dinners for the apartment complex For frosting: 1 (4-serving-size) box vanilla instant pudding mix 1 (20-ounce) can crushed -TJk jii iiiii Mi iiiijimniiimiwim.iiii.il MimhujiBjji.iiiiiu.uiiii ngn iihi.i KT if rtrarra Tin KflffiiTiYft if 4 if At 1 fi A iiur vi'i'iii ir mm HOSPITAL BEDS WALKERS WHEEL CHAIRS Quick Approvals Former Bankrupts OK Re-Establish Credit Starter Loans School Expenses Auto Loans Vacation Loans Real Estate Loans OSTOMY SUPPLIES COMMODES PROFESSIONAL 415 Broadway, Highland, Illinois 62249 IC- CCA OCtC UNIFORMS SURGICAL BACK SUPPORTS KNEE, ANKLE WRIST SUPPORTS HEIGHTS FINANCE CORP Granite Citv OTallon 5-10 p.m.

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