Remembering “The Belle of Amherst”
(SHE places the cake on the tea cart.)
Black cake: two pounds of flour, two pounds of sugar, two pounds of butter, nineteen eggs, five pounds of raisin, one and a half pounds of currants, one and a a half pounds of citron, one half point of brandy—I never use Father’s best—one half […]
Sting’s recording of “Soul Cake” for his 2009 release “If A Winter’s Night” is one of my favorite holiday cooking tracks during the season of night and light. Got a late start on the fruit cakes due to a home repair/renovation project, but I managed 4. One has already been gifted even […]
Ever since I opened Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen cookbook, which includes recipes as well as recommended soundtracks for cooking, I’ve been adding my own soundtracks to my baking. This past summer, I knocked out two pound cakes from the recipe taken from the Reynolds Wrap The Way Mama Cooked It contest […]
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