The snow is here and no time left even for a snowman, with Saint Lucia the beautiful sun and blue sky is giving us the bright winter days, as if to compensate for the few hours of light that are, like the fact saying goes: "Saint Lucia is the shortest day that there is" and the morning when you get into office is still dark as the night when he returns home.
I feel a bit 'sad these days, the lights of which is scattered all around me tear a smile half-heartedly, the reflections on the windows of shops I talk about us old and those whispers.
Raisins by his own hand is delighted by all this sbarluccichio, laughs and starts talking and sounds that until yesterday seemed indefinite gurgles are gradually sharpening and words emerge. I wanted to give me a
cuddle, a christmas fruit cake this page as the recipe was taken from the last book of the sprout, " Gifts greedy"
A plum cake so it is a caress for breakfast and although the awakening from the darkness makes master the beginning of the day is a bit 'brighter --- pity that the candies are inexorably plunged to the bottom .. someone give me a hint?
cuddle, a christmas fruit cake this page as the recipe was taken from the last book of the sprout, " Gifts greedy"
A plum cake so it is a caress for breakfast and although the awakening from the darkness makes master the beginning of the day is a bit 'brighter --- pity that the candies are inexorably plunged to the bottom .. someone give me a hint?
Christmas Fruit Cake
150 grams of flour 150 g sugar
150 g butter 3 eggs
70 g mixed candied fruit
70 grams of raisins
2 tablespoons rum (in the original version was whiskey)
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 / 2 packet of yeast
a pinch of salt
In a small bowl put the candied fruit with the raisins and add the rum with the orange juice allowed to stand for half an hour. Beat eggs with sugar and add the vanilla extract, melted butter and flour, yeast and pinch of salt. Mix and add nuts.
Pour the mixture into a greased loaf pan or lined with paper towel and bake at 180 degrees for 45 minutes.
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A very small Babette see also in this period is more thoughtful than usual ...
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