Thoughts and recipes
Yesterday was setting a mood. Let me explain, before you get the wrong idea, that the mood was for me, not for you. It wasn’t setting a mood to lure you into some sort of dark corner of history, though, now I mention it, that sort of mood-setting seems like a good idea. What I was trying to do was remind myself that colds don’t stop work. Which they don’t. They just want to.
I’ve talked myself into enjoying work so much that I started blogging (on my other blog)about character introduction in a seventeenth century recipe book, using the opening recipe. It was possibly not the most sensible post I’ve ever written, but it was terribly educational. Almost frighteningly educational.
I’ll balance things (now that the worst of the cold is over) by giving you some more of Grandma’s recipes. After all, I mentioned them yesterday, so it’s almost as if I meant it.
Before I get to the recipes, I just thought I’d warn you that my Edible Past course starts next week. This means my thoughts will be ranging over different historical periods again. This is the time when – if you yearn for a Medieval recipe or a Jane Austen syllabub recipe – you really should say so. Otherwise I’ll go back to looking at the food descriptions in my favourite novels. I always threaten this and life always catches up with me before I can follow through. Maybe this time it will actually happen.
Now for a recipe!! 1950s Melbourne, of course.
Eggless Date Cake
Place in a mixing bowl ½ cup sugar, 1 cup dates ( chopped) & 1 tablespoon butter. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon soda. Pour 1 cup boiling water over & beat a few minutes. Sift in 1 ½ cups flour & mix well. Bake in bar shaped tin in fairly hot oven for ½ to ¾ hours. 1 tablespoon chopped ginger.
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