Love Cake Recipe

A very popular cake in Sri Lanka, though no one knows why it is called love cake. There are many recipes, some using butter while others do not, some insisting that only egg yolks should be used and others including the egg whites as well.

Ingredients : Oven temperature : 150^oC (300^oF); Baking time : about 1 hour

7	Eggs, separated
500 g	Caster sugar
250 g	Semolina
375 g	Raw cashews, finely chopped
2 tablespoons	Rose water
2 tablespoons	Honey
1/2 teaspoon	Finely grated lemon rind
1/2 teaspoon	Ground mace or nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon	Ground cardamom
1/2 teaspoon	Almond essence, optional

Method :

• Grease and line a 20 cm square tin with 2 thicknesses of greaseproof paper.

• Brush inner paper with melted butter.

• Beat the egg yolks and caster sugar until light and creamy.

• Stir in the semolina, cashews, rose water, honey, lemon rind, spices and almond essence.

• Beat egg whites until they hold firm peaks and fold into the mixture, turn into prepared tin and bake in moderately slow oven until cake is evenly golden brown on top and feels firm to the touch.

• If cake starts to brown too quickly, cover top with paper or foil.

• When cooked the center of the cake should still be somewhat moist so the skewer test is not recommended.

• Remove from oven and leave in the tin to get quite cold before cutting.

• Do not attempt to turn out this cake.

• Cut into small squares and lift each one separately on to serving plate.

By. http://www.asianonlinerecipes.com

Interpersonal love

Interpersonal love

Grandmother and grandchild, Sri Lanka

Interpersonal love refers to love between human beings. It is a more potent sentiment than a simple liking for another. Unrequited love refers to those feelings of love which are not reciprocated. Interpersonal love is most closely associated with interpersonal relationships. Such love might exist between family members, friends, and couples. There are also a number of psychological disorders related to love, such as erotomania.

Throughout history, philosophy and religion have done the most speculation on the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. In recent years, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have added to the understanding of the nature and function of love.

Impersonal love

Impersonal love

A person can be said to love a country, principle, or goal if they value it greatly and are deeply committed to it. Similarly, compassionate outreach and volunteer workers' "love" of their cause may sometimes be borne not of interpersonal love, but impersonal love coupled with altruism and strong political convictions. People can also "love" material objects, animals, or activities if they invest themselves in bonding or otherwise identifying with that item. If sexual passion is also involved, this condition is called paraphilia.^[6]

Definitions

The English word love can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts which English relies mainly on love to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love". Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition.^[4]

Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.

Definitions of love

When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself (cf. narcissism).

In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, though the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry.^[5]

Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value", as opposed to relative value. Theologian Thomas Jay Oord said that to love is to "act intentionally, in sympathetic response to others, to promote overall well-being".

MEANING OF LOVE

For other uses, see Love (disambiguation).

The stylized heart symbol is a traditional European icon representing love.

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection.^[1] The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my girlfriend"). This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and Platonic love^[2] to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love.^[3] Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

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