(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 […]
My sister is the chief cookie baker during the holidays. She was the one who initiated the annual sugar and gingerbread cookie baking. We still have our old metal cutters which are now favored above the plastic cutters of Peanuts characters and other commerical influences from the 1970s. Aside from the fruit cake, I’m putting […]
This week National Public Radio (NPR) launches “Pie Week” (tweet #pieweek) in time for the July 4th holiday. Pie and 4th of July not only bust a rhyme but go together like peas and rice. I eat baked sweet potatoes. The thought of pie doesn’t strike me until around Halloween when I start […]
I’ve resisted putting myself front and center of the Church Lady Cake Diaries. I always felt the work can speak for itself. But well intentioned friends suggested I step from behind the curtain in the age of internet, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Media is social. So I called Gemal Woods, a producer in Washington, DC […]
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