Fixing fixing fixing

 Well folks, I found out today that Picturetrail.com shut down in January taking a bunch of my photos with them.  It's going to take me a few days to get over that.  Lost all my links to the patterns used for some of the quilts, my kitten baby pictures notes, and mostly just the organization of photos. So, unhappy, but I will get past it. I also noticed some of my recipes ended up here instead of food blog. I will have to copy those over.

I took a 6 month break on hobbies - variety of reasons but I lost the impetus on my quilting when my sewing room just got too cold.  This winter, I will use a heater by my feet for just when I'm in there.  I had to stop cross stitching in October due to tennis elbow. Better now.  Definitely have to get back to knitting socks!

Hobbit Seed Cake

I wanted a Hobbit based treat for the Dewey's 24 hour Readathon.  This is very likely what J R R Tolkein grew up eating.  I had to substitute poppy seeds for the caraway as my brother has trouble with caraway. Original recipe said to bake for 1 hour - cake is too dry.  50 minutes would work better.  Otherwise, this is a light scone in texture.

Recipe is taken from Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 1861 and I give credit to this link for posting it. http://www.innatthecrossroads.com/seedcake-the-hobbit/

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. of butter (2 sticks)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground mace
•  1 Tbs seeds (caraway is traditional, but I like poppy seeds)
• 3 eggs
• 1/4 cup brandy
• 2 cups flour

Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the spices and seeds, followed by the eggs and brandy, beating to combine. Gradually add the flour, stirring until everything is mixed together completely. Pour this thick batter into a tin lined with buttered paper, and bake it at 350F for 50 minutes.

No pan size indicated, but other suggest 8-9 inch pan.  I used an 8 in square with parchment paper.

Dewey's 24 hour Read-a-thon

 Well, it's been some time since I posted.  This is primarily due to limited computer access. I've been using just a laptop and my vision problems require me to literally have it on my chest while in a recliner or I can't read it!  Have a big screen for my desktop and hopefully will get that up and running very soon.

Tomorrow at 7 a.m. (CST) starts the semi-annual Dewey's 24 hour Read-a-thon.  Reading as much as you can in a 24 hour period.  I'll alternate between ereader and audiobook.  Looking forward to it.

Had my 2nd Moderna shot the other day.  Slight fever and headache this afternoon, but other than pain in injection site, I'm doing fine now.