August Woosh
So far I have managed: TV and Movies Apostle (2018) Evil S01E01-03 The Sandman S01E01-03
The insomnia has my brain fizzing slightly, and I've now come up with the notion of making small cakes for each of my daily household gods to be offered on the Kalends. Too late for this month, perhaps, but hey, there you go. Planning to make them small, so I can make up a batch of each that will last six months. Keep the rest in the freezer. Most of these should keep well enough. The laver cakes may have to be cooked fresh, but I bet the mush would freeze fine.
It will be a kind of start on the devotional cookbooks I've been contemplating. Here are some notes towards it:
cakes for:
hekate - honey cake with almonds
dionysos - GG Lil’s applesauce cake with dried figs, soaked in spiced red wine
hestia- dense spice cake
hermes- maybe some sort of merengue? what flavors does he like?
athena - something hearty and not too sweet, nuts and a touch of honey
artemis - nut and seed cake
apollo - orange spice cake, with ginger, cloves, allspice, cinnamon, saffron, mace, frankincense, like in that one book
okeanos and tethys - laver cakes; boil nori and wakame together overnight until gloopy mash. mix in barley, roll in oats, fry
Base recipe with notes:
• hekate honeycake
• http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/honey-cake-recipe
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• 1 cup sliced almonds
• 1 1/4 cups King Arthur Whole Wheat Flour, white or traditional — sub barley
• 3/4 cup King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda — maybe delete
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup honey
• 4 large eggs
• 1/4 cup sour cream or yogurt
• add cinnamon, clove, allspice, mace, saffron
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• try whipping egg whites to give lift to replace baking powder
• steep saffron in milk before/while making yogurt
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dionysos figs and wine cake
Lil's Applesauce Cake
1c butter
2c granulated sugar overwritten with: 1lb lt brown sugar
1t each: Cinnamon, cloves, allspice
1/2t salt
4c flour
1c raisins
3/4c dates (chopped)
1c nuts
3 eggs
2c applesauce w/ 1/2t soda
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Combine spices w/flour. Add altnerately with applesauce. Add nuts, dates and raisins. Bake in tube pan, 325F 1.5 hours (test after 1hr).
Another of Granny Lil's. Sometimes this cake comes out dry, and then Gran moistens it with apple slices and white wine.
replace dried fruits with dried figs, chopped; what nuts?
allow to dry out overnight, then pour hot spiced wine over it, to soak
All very rough, insomnia-driven. Anybody have questions, comments, suggestion? Speak up!