Monday, 27 May 2019
What`s for dinner Clarey?: Shut your cakehole!
What`s for dinner Clarey?: Shut your cakehole!: I went to watch a movie last night with my Dad and the heroine of the drama when being derided by a gang of POWs cut them all dead with that...
Shut your cakehole!
I went to watch a movie last night with my Dad and the heroine of the drama when being derided by a gang of POWs cut them all dead with that most wonderful Northern phrase "shut your cake hole!"
It got me thinking would anyone t'other side oft Watford gap understand this saying, let alone find it funny. It struck me as rather sad that some people on Spartan diets for life wouldn't even have a cake hole, poor things, they would probably have a Sushi hole or canapé hole!
Well today my smallest of inner circles took a trip to a lake fronted hotel for a very memorable afternoon tea where we laughed and laughed and certainly never shut our cakeholes!
I read somewhere that if your circle isn't cheering you on or clapping the loudest when you succeed, you need a new circle! My nearest and dearest do just that we are exclusive. This closeness has developed from living away from family for many years and finding our own path and keeping any traumas or dramas in house. 'Save your drama for your Mama' is my modus operandi and what I tell my children because it works.Food is how you show someone that they are someone in our house but if you make someone a cake that's love as far as I'm concerned. Afternoon tea with my family is as good as it gets. My favourite cake has to be lemon drizzle, reserved for holidays and high teas, it brings comfort and joy and has even been known to mend broken hearts. That and a nice cup of Earl grey is my idea of heaven and if they don't do cake in Heaven I'm not going!
Lemon drizzle cake
6eggs
1tsp baking powder
400g SR flour
350g butter
2tbs lemon curd
500g sugar
4 lemons
Preheat the oven to 180C
Grease and line a roasting tray. Mix 350 g of sugar with the butter, flour
baking powder, lemon zest and eggs and lemon curd, all in one method and bake for 35-40 mins. Meanwhile, squeeze the juice from 2 of the lemons and mix with the remainder of the sugar. Make lots of holes in the cake with a wooden skewer and drizzle over half of the lemon sugar mixture, leave it to stand then repeat. After an hour the sugar and lemon will form a crunchy sweet drizzly top.
A slice of that will shut anyone's cakehole!! Xxxx
It got me thinking would anyone t'other side oft Watford gap understand this saying, let alone find it funny. It struck me as rather sad that some people on Spartan diets for life wouldn't even have a cake hole, poor things, they would probably have a Sushi hole or canapé hole!
Well today my smallest of inner circles took a trip to a lake fronted hotel for a very memorable afternoon tea where we laughed and laughed and certainly never shut our cakeholes!
I read somewhere that if your circle isn't cheering you on or clapping the loudest when you succeed, you need a new circle! My nearest and dearest do just that we are exclusive. This closeness has developed from living away from family for many years and finding our own path and keeping any traumas or dramas in house. 'Save your drama for your Mama' is my modus operandi and what I tell my children because it works.Food is how you show someone that they are someone in our house but if you make someone a cake that's love as far as I'm concerned. Afternoon tea with my family is as good as it gets. My favourite cake has to be lemon drizzle, reserved for holidays and high teas, it brings comfort and joy and has even been known to mend broken hearts. That and a nice cup of Earl grey is my idea of heaven and if they don't do cake in Heaven I'm not going!
Lemon drizzle cake
6eggs
1tsp baking powder
400g SR flour
350g butter
2tbs lemon curd
500g sugar
4 lemons
Preheat the oven to 180C
Grease and line a roasting tray. Mix 350 g of sugar with the butter, flour
baking powder, lemon zest and eggs and lemon curd, all in one method and bake for 35-40 mins. Meanwhile, squeeze the juice from 2 of the lemons and mix with the remainder of the sugar. Make lots of holes in the cake with a wooden skewer and drizzle over half of the lemon sugar mixture, leave it to stand then repeat. After an hour the sugar and lemon will form a crunchy sweet drizzly top.
A slice of that will shut anyone's cakehole!! Xxxx
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