{"id":989,"date":"2009-04-28T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/28\/about-cake"},"modified":"2017-07-06T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T20:09:10","slug":"about-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangette.net\/2009\/04\/about-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"About cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I thought it would be nice to talk about cake.<\/p>\n

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\nActually, that\u2019s a lie. Today, I thought it would be nice to eat<\/span> cake. That\u2019s all. Anything else is completely optional. I\u2019m easy to please, as long as there is cake around.<\/p>\n

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\nLately, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about cake. This is not an unusual condition for me, but it happens particularly often when I\u2019m feeling frazzled or tired or harried, right around the same time that I start listening to the easy listening station on the car radio and feeling genuinely soothed by it. It\u2019s pretty clear that you need a good night\u2019s sleep when \u201cPeaceful Easy Feeling\u201d<\/a> comes on the stereo and you almost choke up, sitting there behind the wheel of your Honda with its missing hubcaps, singing a mournful duet with Glenn Frey as you thump-thump<\/span> over the speed bumps of residential Seattle. It is also pretty clear that you need cake.<\/p>\n

The cake up there, the very plain-looking one in the pictures, is not a beauty, but it\u2019s a bang-up solution to the problem. It\u2019s a recipe that I\u2019ve been playing with and tweaking for the past few weeks or so, inspired in part by Miss Edna Lewis\u2019s wonderful busy-day cake<\/a>. It is my personal conviction that we all need some sort of busy-day cake in our repertoire, and though I love Miss Lewis\u2019s take on the theme, this one, I think, will be mine. It\u2019s rustic and coarse-crumbed, almost like a muffin, with a faint whiff of nutmeg and whole wheat. I\u2019m calling it an \u201ceveryday cake,\u201d and Brandon would like me to clarify that, as cakes go, it\u2019s not strictly dessert material. It\u2019s a snack, ideally, something you would eat with tea or coffee, iced or hot, in the hours between lunch and dinner. It\u2019s homely and humble and not very sweet, and it\u2019s deeply reassuring. If you really know what\u2019s good for you, you\u2019ll slice off a wedge, pick it up between your thumb and index finger, lean over the sink, and eat it in approximately four, maybe five, large bites. Pay no attention to the plate and fork in the top photo. I don\u2019t know what I was thinking. All you need is the cake.<\/p>\n\n

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Everyday Cake<\/h2>\n

Inspired by Edna Lewis\u2019s Busy-Day Cake<\/a><\/h3> \n \n <\/header>\n\n
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