Made a favourite cake last night, Chocolate Honey Cake. It was one that Mum used to make a lot. She got it from the Governor's Bay Recipe book, produced in 1956-7 as a fundraiser for the Governor's Bay Community Centre. The recipes all came from women living in the area. I also decided to drag out Mum's old scales, Farringdon (Made in England of course; this was when we were a dutiful colony, before our politicians decided we'd be better off buying container loads of cheap rubbish from China). The scales are in the old pounds and ounces, and are great for those old recipes because you don't have to do the conversion to metric. They are very good scales, very accurate and very sensitive, unlike my el cheapo metric one which seems to get jammed from time to time.
You will notice that quite a lot of the cake is gone. I did say it was one of my favourites. Sometimes chocolate cakes go a bit dry (apparently this is something to do with the chemical reaction between baking powder and cocoa), but because of the honey, this one stays nice and moist. Not that it ever has a chance to get old in this house. I'll post the recipe tomorrow.
The Great Chuck-out is creating much fun for cats. This is not a chest of drawers, it's the cats' apartment block.
And there are BOXES! too.
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