I had the most wonderful 45 min walk last weekend on the old railway trail behind my house: in my hiking sneakers, sun shining, up a busy thoroughfare, onto a side street and finally in the quiet of the trail. There was still snow in the middle of the trail in spots; and the melting reveals copious amounts of dog poop! But beautiful and refreshing all the same. The spring bulbs I'd planted in the fall came up in spite of the poor soil in which I'd planted them which was so exciting for me as I miss my Nova Scotia garden terribly.
We've had a very long, cold winter. The Bay froze over ... then melted ... then refroze --- probably 3 times at least. So, an ice breaker went through a few weeks ago and crunched all the ice together and on top of each other until parts of it resembled Toblerone bars. Saturday and Easter Sunday were warm (for western NL) with 7 C (45 F); and on both days, I had a steady stream of fake icebergs that floated by my front window. It was lovely to sit outside in my lawn chair and watch them.
Then yesterday, we had freezing rain, then rain, then snow: and today, it's -1 C (30 deg F), for Lard's sake! We don't put our winter clothing away until late May on this Island! Oh well, it'll be spring again this weekend.
My youngest daughter asked me to bake scones (one of my specialities) and a cake for her upcoming bridal shower. I haven't really baked for 3 years and haven't baked a plain cake for even longer. But on Good Friday past, I began. The 'crown' orange cake came out beautifully! But I discovered that I'm not very good at pound cakes; it was a bit 'dunch', another great Newfie word. However, it is very tasty! So, into the freezer with it so it can be used later for trifle.
Dunch: n' dull, heavy: v 'to get stiff with long waiting; heavy, doughy.
Stiff; cramped or numbed from sitting in one position; to be cramped in the legs,
arms, etc. For example: " You wouldn't be able to stay keeled out on the settle
bench very long 'cause it would be quite 'ard and yer bum would go dunch!"
My next two white layers looked good but were very thin because I didn't notice that my cake pans were 9" instead of 8". So, those got iced and eaten at Easter dinner. Yum!
FINALLY, I baked a simple yellow cake which worked out beautifully ..... so I made two to be cut into four. They're in the freezer waiting to be iced and decorated this Saturday. Wish me luck!
Here's hoping that your weekend is warm and your cakes rise beautifully!
2 comments:
We've had some up and down weather too, but thankfully it looks like chances of snow are now gone! Glad you were able to get out and enjoy the nice day you had. It does seem like if I'm baking something for someone else, that is when nothing goes right. But You get an A+ for all your effort and glad the last try did work out.
the cake sounds scrumptious. liked reading all the expressions and what they mean.
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