Mildred gifted me a post. I told her about my mom and I sharing a favorite candy and she posted about a cake using the very same candy. Thank you again for thinking of me Mildred.
I thought I was going to make it to enjoy it tonight for Fat Tuesday, but when I got to looking at it, I realized it looked like a fruitcake recipe. I noticed in the comments for Mildred’s post that some had this as a Christmas cake and one person said that they liked it better than fruitcake.
Now I don’t know about that better than part, maybe the same as, because I am a fruitcake girl. Ya, I know what you’re saying Dear Reader, something like, “fruitcake for the fruitcake,” but it is what it is, me and about ten other people in the world like fruitcake.
My mom and I shared that taste for fruitcakes as well as our candy preferences. We really felt that we had scored when we found Collin’s Street Bakery out of Texas. I have not had one of their fruitcakes since she died, I’m not sure I could get past the first bite. We also scored when I found Truman Capote’s, A Christmas Memory. I was surprised my mother did not know the story, Truman Capote was an author who’s work she appreciated. As an English (the apple rolled far on that one, didn’t it) and a drama teacher she had a wide appreciation for literature.
Oh, back to the cake, so I have decided that the cake is getting baked tonight and then wrapped in an orange liqueur until Easter. I think it will make an excellent Easter cake. The bright orange candies will lend itself well to the season. I usually only make pies for Easter, all sorts of spring pies, banana cream, lemon, coconut, key lime, not necessarily all of them all at once but those are the ones I choose from. But now the “cake” will join the line up!
But what about tonight? Well this works out just perfectly. Winter is coming to an end, Dirt has already had what I consider a spring pie, his first banana cream of the season, on Saturday. It is time to make the seasonal switch over.
There was just one more of Bet’s scrumptious apple pies in the freezer.
She did up quite a few of them this fall but we were unsure how they would turn out or hold up. She froze them without baking them first, and then we saw a Martha S. show that claimed that when you freeze and then bake they are soupy. Well Marth, ya lied.
Bet’s pies are still great almost six months later, not a sog in the bunch. Having pies ready to go in the freezer has really been a blessing. They take a while to bake but no muss, no fuss, in the oven and out in about an hour.
So a beautiful roasted salmon dinner and a pie, yum.
Tomorrow, I am looking forward to tomorrow. I have a post in the works, it goes with my “Feelings” post and was spurred by Alan’s post, Knowing About or Experiencing which asked a couple of good questions today.
So Dear Reader, “We’ve had fun and played our games, won’t you come again.” (A little ditty from my childhood Wanda Wanda watching. ) Come again tomorrow and perhaps we will also talk discipline. Don’t worry I’m no expert in that department, as most of you are well aware of, but sometimes I gotta go beyond myself you know. Anna and I are doing menus, due to the encouragement of Rebecca and LindaSue. The whole stewardship thing.
