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Apple Coffee Cake

 

Ingredients

• 5 cup(s) apple(s), tart, cored, peeled, chopped
• 1 cup(s) sugar
• 1 cup(s) raisins
• 1/2 cup(s) nuts, pecans, chopped
• 1/4 cup(s) oil, vegetable
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
• 1 egg(s), beaten
• 2 cup(s) flour, all-purpose, sifted

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 

2. Lightly oil 13- by 9- by 2-inch pan.

3. In a large mixing bowl, combine apples with sugar, raisins, and pecans. Mix well and let stand for 30 minutes.

4. Stir in oil, vanilla, and egg. Sift together flour, soda, and cinnamon, and stir into apple mixture about a third at a time — just enough to moisten dry ingredients.

5. Turn batter into pan. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake slightly before serving.

Apple & Nectar

 

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup(s) apricot nectar, or unsweetened orange juice
• 2 tablespoon raisins, golden 
• 1 tablespoon margarine
• 4 apple(s), Granny Smith, or other crips dessert apples
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Preparation

1. Bring fruit juices, raisins, and margarine to a boil.

2. Halve, peel, and core apples. Lower them carefully into juice mixture and simmer gently for 7-10 minutes or until soft but not mushy.

3. Mix cornstarch with a little cold water to make a paste.

4. Transfer apples to a serving dish, cut side down.

5. Stir the cornstarch mixture into the juice and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Pour over apples and chill before serving.

Applesauce

Nut Bread Recipe

 

Ingredients

• 1 egg(s), beaten, or 1/4 cup egg substitute
• 1 cup(s) applesauce, unsweetened
• 1/2 cup(s) oil, canola
• 1/2 cup(s) sugar
• 1/2 cup(s) raisins
• 1/2 cup(s) nuts, walnuts, chopped
• 1 3/4 cup(s) flour, all-purpose
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
• 1/2 teaspoon cloves, ground

Preparation

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a 9- x 5-inch loaf pan with nonstick pan spray.

2. In a large bowl, combine the egg, applesauce, oil, sugar, raisins, and walnuts; mix well.

3. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cloves in a medium bowl and add to the applesauce mixture; mix well.

4. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool 10 minutes on a wire rack before removing from the pan. When cooled, cut into 18 slices.

Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. has recently denied rumors alleging that it will buy Harley-Davidson Inc., which caused the US motorcycle maker’s interest to rise in New York last Friday.

But just in case Honda and Harley do combine, their union would be clever to control 65 percent of the US motorcycle market while its next leading competitor Yamaha will be left with only 16 percent. Such paradigm of stronghold on the motorcycle market would definitely not please the Federal Trade Commission.

Honda through its spokeswoman Yoshido has extended their reaffirm on the issue. According to Honda spokeswoman Makiko Yoshida in Tokyo last Monday, “There’s absolutely no really to it.”

Amidst doubts from analyst and market participants, Harley-Davidson shares and options were capable to increase with 58,535 options last Friday which is fourteen times more than the daily average that is basing from the figures gathered by retail research firm Track Data.

RBC Capital Market Analyst, Edward Aaron in an meeting with Forbes.com last Friday said, “I’d be surprised if there was a Honda and Harley-Davidson combination, basically for regulatory and cultural reasons.” He also added, “Harley is an iconic, American trade-mark. I don’t think it would be a great fit if they were under the ownership of a larger Japanese corporation.”

Aaron further stated that it was unlikely that Harley would become the aim of a buyout. He said, “Although an LBO is more plausible than a merger with Honda, the math behind such a transaction is not highly compelling.” And besides Harley is already a well operated task with a high margin profile and it’s not a good business sense for an LBO investor to shell out a significant premium and be skilled to generate a fitting return.

Harley’s share gained as much as 6.4 percent before closing last Friday’s seating by $2.43 or about 4 percent at $62.55 on the New York Stock Exchange. On the other hand, the shares of Honda, the world’s biggest motorcycle maker and regisseur of high quality Honda exhaust system have gained very little increase in Tokyo with only 0.5 percent last Monday at 4,420 yen.

Honda TidbitsIn generalFor the past 50 years, Honda has made racing as its training ground for challenging the abilities of both its engineers and designers. Soichiro Honda said that the pressures that people gets from racing encourages them to be after for innovative solutions and demands fast, precise responses to new problems that they have not encountered before.

This is also the very reason why racing is embedded in the corporate refinement of Honda. Aside from that racing also teaches people how to work harmoniously with each other since in racing no single individual can carry success to the team because it is a group effort.

Throughout the racing history of Honda either it be in two wheels or four, the Japanese automaker has been talented to win at the highest levels. From the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race to Formula One Grand Prix, Honda was able to buy 60 race victories and four consecutive Constructors’ Championships from 1988 to 1991. Various Honda models are displayed in winning lanes around the world.