Back left, soul cakes. See below.
Front, coconut macaroons. Look good, don't they? They'll be even better with chocolate bottoms. Except - I can't get them off the paper ...
I only made the macaroons because I had egg whites left over from the soul cakes. If they crumble I will have to be creative with them.
Now the soul cakes.
I mentioned yesterday that I was writing an article about Halloween. One of the things I discovered was that an old English tradition on All Hallows' Eve was to offer soul cakes to beggars who knocked at the door, in return for which the beggars agreed to pray for the dead of the household.
I wrote about this and decided to include a recipe and photo, so I made this batch. I will send the photo with the article but not the recipe. It's not that they're unpleasant, just not very exciting. I suppose the rich men thought beggars didn't deserve anything too good.
I'll let you know what progress I make with the macaroons.
Incidentally this morning we went to visit Younger Son and while we were having lunch the chickens tried to join in.
6 comments:
mmm they look good. Is there an edible paper you can bake macaroons on? I like the chickens.
Yes, rice paper, Polly. I have got them off now but they are a bit soft.
The chickens are cute but cheeky!
Jenny has finally perfected the recipe for chocolate chip cookies. They kept being crumbly or turning into buns, but after a lot of trial and error she's now worked out how to make the real thing.
I've never heard of soul cakes. The recipe looks delicious - a small cake with sweet spices and raisins or currants. What's not to like?
Love the socializing chickens. What an interesting Hallowe’en tradition with the soul cakes.
I've heard of soul cakes (from a ye olde Englishe folk song) but I've never seen or tasted one. Nick's description in his comment above sounds like Eccles cakes to me, which I have eaten and they are delicious. Of course, I like mincemeat and the filling of Eccles cakes is very similar.
I used to have a cookbook, written by a chemist, that was wonderful. She explained how to adjust proportions/types of ingredients to produce the "perfect" whatever. Her treatise on chocolate chip cookies was the best I've ever read. Unfortunately, I gave the book away about 30 years or so ago.
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