• 1 cup blood pudding
  
• 2 cups pineapple upside down cake
  
• 2 tsp. Jungle Gardenia lotion
  
• 1 isolated farm wife
  
• 1 interned Japanese American prisoner
  
• 2 Hawaiian love songs
  
• a pinch of salt
  

Mix in Minidoka, Idaho. Bake during World War II. Serve hot, and if desired, with whipped cream. Makes a tantalizing dish of passion, danger and redemption.

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