Slice of Goodness

Colonial Shortcake

This is one of my Favourite recipes; a colonial shortcake. I pulled it out of a Colonial Williamsburg cookbook published in the 80's and have use it for sweet and savory dishes; just use chicken and pan sauce or beef and gravy instead of glaze and berries.

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2 C of Flour

1/2 C of flour in reserve (you may need more)

1/2 ts of baking powder

1/2 ts of salt

4 T of unsalted butter softened

2/3 C of milk

3 eggs

Preheat oven to 425 and grease a cake pan well

1. sift dry ingredients

2. cut in butter until mixture is corn meal like

3. add 1/3 C milk and 1 egg to dry ingredients and mix well

4. add 1/3 C milk and 1 egg to ingredients and mix well

5. add last egg

6. add and mix flour into mixture a handful at a time until you can pick up the dough w/o it sticking to your hands

7. spread the dough evenly from the center of the pan out to the sides and bake for 15 minutes

8. let cool for 20 minutes and then cut in half with a bread knife to make two layers.

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Colinial Williamsburg

Leftistan

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Alexander!!!

Micheal's dear friends George and Svetya just had their first child and for whatever reason were crazy enough to let him hold little Alexi. Babies are so cute especially when they belong to friends.

Dumbarton Oaks

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New shawl

DC Roof Top

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Bread Bowl, hatchet, and Prayer Book

Niko and I exchanged our Christmas gifts today. I received a hatchet, prayer book, and a bread bowl. The bread bowl is particularly lovely. Niko hails from south eastern Ohio a region that was noted for its production of stoneware for well over a century now. The bread bowl is a match to one he purchased a few years ago and that I have been lusting after since first I laid eyes on it. It seems that the pottery that made these has gone out of business and the mold for this particular bowl has been lost. Meaning that unless someone really cares and wants to reconstitute the mold from an existing bowl there will be no more of this lovely bowl. It's very deep and probably holds a solid three gallons.
Here's a new picture of Elias cuddling with me.