I’ve got a day off work today and it is bliss. I’ve got a batch of tea cakes in the oven and I’m still not dressed at 11am. I’m sure that Anna May would have worn something a little more slinky than a muu muu in the kitchen but there is a certain pleasure in cooking in a kaftan, I don’t know why…
So I’m off to town soon for a meeting with some tele folk and am stopping by at Rosalind’s most hated retail establishment, Confetti on Tottenham Court Road. I sent her there once on an errand and she was apoplectic with fury at the waif like sales assistants and dreamy eyed customers – it’s a wedding shop. She phoned me up ranting and raving about all the nonsense wedding favours and table settings and nick-nackery people were spending thousands of pounds on for their nuptials. But they do sell clear cellophane bags that I like to put my Silver Screen Suppers gifts in.
I didn’t have time to make Janet Gaynor’s Ice Box Cookies to take today, and as these guys look pretty rock and roll from their website I have made tea cakes in skull and crossbones paper cases instead. Kerrang!
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Sounds yummy and super-cool. Enjoy your day off! I want to hear about those ice box cookies as they also sound very interesting.
Hello duckie! Yes, the tea cakes are cute. I’m going to experiment with making them into butterfly cakes next time… Janet’s Ice Box Cookies are really, really good and great fun to make. You make the dough the day before and put it in the fridge overnight then slice it up and bake it. I can send you the recipe if you fancy having a go.
Sounds yummy and super-cool. Enjoy your day off! I want to hear about those ice box cookies as they also sound very interesting.
Hello duckie! Yes, the tea cakes are cute. I’m going to experiment with making them into butterfly cakes next time… Janet’s Ice Box Cookies are really, really good and great fun to make. You make the dough the day before and put it in the fridge overnight then slice it up and bake it. I can send you the recipe if you fancy having a go.
Oh yes please! I will also test those recipes you sent me earlier now that it’s no longer in the blistering high 90s here with insane humidity. My poor parents had to endure this weather while they were here, but they did so with grace and fortitude.
And I’d love to try the tea cakes too! Hopefully soon I’ll see you and be able to taste some of your wonderful cooking…
Drop me an email Moya to remind me to send you the tea cakes recipe doll x
Oh yes please! I will also test those recipes you sent me earlier now that it’s no longer in the blistering high 90s here with insane humidity. My poor parents had to endure this weather while they were here, but they did so with grace and fortitude.
And I’d love to try the tea cakes too! Hopefully soon I’ll see you and be able to taste some of your wonderful cooking…
Drop me an email Moya to remind me to send you the tea cakes recipe doll x
I will! Thank you. I was thinking of you the other day–we went to Billy’s Bakery in Chelsea where they have the greatest old fashioned deserts. Evan and I split the ice box pie which is so yummy (basically biscuits and whipped cream layered together, from what I gather). Even with both of us being greedy, there was enough to spare–which we took home and ate the next night while watching Mad Men. I could imagine a movie star whipping up such a dish back in the 40s.
I will! Thank you. I was thinking of you the other day–we went to Billy’s Bakery in Chelsea where they have the greatest old fashioned deserts. Evan and I split the ice box pie which is so yummy (basically biscuits and whipped cream layered together, from what I gather). Even with both of us being greedy, there was enough to spare–which we took home and ate the next night while watching Mad Men. I could imagine a movie star whipping up such a dish back in the 40s.
Aha yes, I have a recipe for Almond Ice Box Cake – might give that one a go. Hattie McDaniel’s Cracker cake is very much like this – smashed up Graham Crackers and whipped cream mostly. The reason I am always on the search for Graham Crackers over here!
I have decided that if Office Shoes on Oxford Street have those shoes in my size I am going to buy them tomorrow. If they don’t – it was not meant to be!
Happy weekend!
Jx
Lucky me – Oxford Street branch had my size! Will send some photos from Vintage at Goodwood which is next weekend and I cannot WAIT!
Aha yes, I have a recipe for Almond Ice Box Cake – might give that one a go. Hattie McDaniel’s Cracker cake is very much like this – smashed up Graham Crackers and whipped cream mostly. The reason I am always on the search for Graham Crackers over here!
I have decided that if Office Shoes on Oxford Street have those shoes in my size I am going to buy them tomorrow. If they don’t – it was not meant to be!
Happy weekend!
Jx
Lucky me – Oxford Street branch had my size! Will send some photos from Vintage at Goodwood which is next weekend and I cannot WAIT!
Well done, Anna. The recipe is of Celestial (Old term from Chinese) origin.
Well done, Anna. The recipe is of Celestial (Old term from Chinese) origin.