High-Tea at Petit Fours

  ‘There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea’ – Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady.   I couldn’t agree more, Henry James was right on the mark here. At mid-afternoon, my workmates and I went out for a special high-tea and we […]

Posted by Admin on June 7th, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Cakes and Cupcakes, Pot Luck (miscellaneous)

Autumn is Here: A Poetry Lesson

  A few blogs ago we had a physics lesson (along with the Red Velvet Cupcakes), then we had an English language lesson (in the blog about Whoopie Pies), today we are going to study the English language again, but this time with a poetry lesson, deconstructing E.E. Cumming’s poem “l(a” written in 1958.   This poem, […]

Posted by Admin on April 17th, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Pot Luck (miscellaneous)

Christmas Cakes : A History

CHRISTMAS CAKES : A HISTORY   Here, I am going to look at what we now know as a Christmas Cake: how it came to be associated with the Christmas Day tradition, how it became known as a Christmas Cake, and changes to recipes and ingredients. “Christmas Cake”, as the title of a recipe, only […]

Posted by Admin on December 1st, 2013 | No Comments Posted in Cakes and Cupcakes, Christmas, Pot Luck (miscellaneous)