A RECIPE
by James Akbar Williams (Age 10)
Lately I have been experimenting by making up recipes. I have made Apple Cream Cheese Cake and a few others. I liked the Apple Cream cheese cake best. It was not very sweet. This is what I put in it;
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
About 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 & 1/2 cup flour
1 TB of baking powder
1 & 1/2 large apples
2 eggs
Cream the butter and cream cheese together. Add sugar and eggs. Mix well. Sift the flour before measuring. Combine flour and baking powder. Add the flour and milk together in small amounts. Mix well after each amount is added. Cook in two 9 by 9 inch pans. Bake on 350 degree F.
From The Ruff Draft February 1992 page 4
About the Ruff Draft
In 1991 my family began putting out a newsletter we called The Ruff Draft. We had recently started homeschooling. The purpose of The Ruff Draft was both to give real writing opportunities to Ayanna (15), Tulani (13), James (9) and Cabral (4), and to show extended family and friends that they were learning something.
In the beginning we used an Apple 2c. They wrote the articles and I typed them into the computer, printed them out and lay out the newsletter. Later my cousin Blair gave us a Mac and the whole newsletter could be done on the computer. There were drawings and photographs. Sometimes readers sent in articles.
For four or five years we published bi-monthly and mailed it out all over the country to family and friends until the writers graduated and moved on to bigger things away from home. You can see an issue of The Ruff Draft at this link The Ruff Draft – July 30, 1991.