Grandma's Blushing

I just mixed this up this morning.
A man named Bob Ray died.
They asked me to fix a dessert for the funeral diner they'd have for his family.
I took this Blushing Betty & some Banana Bars.
I forgot how super E-Z this was to fix and with summer coming on some of you might need a good rhubarb recipe:

Grandma's Blushing Betty

9x13 pan:
4 C rhubarb
2 & 2/3 C sugar

1 C raisins
4 T shortening

2 eggs

2 C flour

3 t. baking powder
½ t. salt
2/3 C milk
1 t. vanilla

Wash rhubarb (do not peel) & cut into pieces and mix with 2 cups of sugar.
Place in a greased baking dish.
Add the raisins.

Meanwhile cream together the shortening with the remaining amounts of sugar and eggs.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together – add alternately with milk to the creamed sugar and eggs mixture.
Add vanilla.

Spread the batter over the fruit and bake for 1 hour in a 350º oven.

Serve with a whip cream topping or homemade vanilla ice cream.

Bob Ray was a pit-bull-drill-sargent, tough-old-bird kind of a man, but on the inside, I got the feeling he was much more of a tender-little-lotus-blossum, =) and I told him so, too!

(sweet and sour, just like this recipe)

He liked to greet folks by saying, "I heard what YOU did, last week."

(I like that kind of honery)

Rest in Peace, Bob Ray.

You served here, long and well.