Friday 9 December 2011

A feast of cake

'She remembered the great decorated kitchen, with holly hung from the rafters among the salt-rimed shrouded hams and puddings, a fiddler on the back stairs, and a feast of cake and fruit and pasties, wine and whisky.' Winifred Holtby South Riding
cake, fruit
What are your Christmas memories of food?

2 comments:

  1. As my mum has just handed over the christmas cake she makes every year, it would have to be the decorations that go on top of it: handed down from my nan, the plastic reindeer and snow-dusted trees that date from the 50s are very evocative for me.
    Oh and the satsuma in the bottom of the stocking on christmas morning!
    Nowadays I try to create my own with my daughter by making our own mince pies from scratch. Easier than it sounds.

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  2. Tonia - aaah the Christmas cake - I love it. Alas I just end up taking a doorstep like hunk of a slice from my mum's cake rather than her baking me my own one.

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