Gingerbread Cake
With the graying Fall days …
Gray skies over Heron Pointe: looking river side
Looking river side towards Willow Grove road
… and the thick low-laying a.m./p.m. river fogs
banks that settle over the area from where we live to R.A. Long High School by
Lake Sacajawea where it surprisingly clears up while I drive back and forth to
the hospital every day, I have had a hankering for gingerbread the last 2 weeks
and finally broke down and made it this morning ;-)
This recipe is an old one and comes to me here in
the PNW all the way from Louisville, Kentucky. And I am thankful :-D The house
smells wonderful with that gingery/cinnamon/clovey scent and it tastes as good
as it smells!
GINGERBREAD CAKE (Sweden)
1/2 cup Butter * 2 cups light Brown Sugar * 2 Eggs * 1 teaspoon Soda, dissolved in a small amount of warm water * ½ teaspoon ground Ginger * ½ teaspoon ground Cinnamon * ½ teaspoon ground Cloves * 2 cups sifted Flour * 1 cup Milk
Cream butter; add sugar, mixing well with
electric beater. Beat eggs until light – add to sugar mixture. Add soda and
spices; fold in flour, alternating with the milk: mix well.
Grease large tube pan and dust with flour.
Pour in batter. Bake in 350-degree oven for 35 minutes. Let cake cool before
removing from pan.
I always have gingerbread in the house – cookies or cakes – around this time of
year, but lately it’s been a a bit hard to get into the upcoming holidays
because my husband will not be here with me to celebrate them; but last night I
happened to notice that my holiday cactuses have been putting out buds in my lengthy
absences from home …
White Christmas Cactus; larger buds
Pink Christmas Cactus; smaller buds
… and that revived the holiday spirit within me
enough to at least hang the wreaths on each door and change the welcome mats
;-) And that’s about all that will get done this year because I will, of
course, be spending the holidays with my husband in his hospital room cheering
him up – which cheers me up.
We are hoping he will be coming home soon, but only Elohei KNOWS what the future holds.
Today’s concerns are sufficient for the day, I won’t borrow tomorrows’
troubles. Today I am going to enjoy the gingerbread cake I made!
And work some more on MOD Candy Cane Baby
Swaddling Blanket I started last week:
MOD Candy Cane Swaddling Blanket – half completed
This blanket is a donation item, but I can’t l
help thinking while working on it that I wish our grand-daughters would give us
great-grandbabies … nothing would make me happier than to make up layette sets
for my longed for great-grandbabies. I don’t think my husband and I will live
long enough to see our grandson’s children (he’s
only 4 yo this year), but our grand-daughters are all in their 20’s,
ranging from early twenties to late twenties and it would be nice if they
started reproducing while Hubs is still on this planet ;-)
