sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2022-01-03 09:17 pm

I got the one with the sweetest ways

Behold the spider cake!





It does not resemble a spider. It looks—and tastes—like a sweet cornbread with a kind of double-layered custard floated on top, which would be the baked cream. [personal profile] spatch has found evidence suggesting the name actually comes from the three-legged cast-iron skillet known as a spider, although the upper surface did fissure attractively as it cooled. I love our new cast-iron skillet even if it has no legs at all. It can bake in an oven and we can make this dessert.
regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)

[personal profile] regshoe 2022-01-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
What an endearingly strange name, wherever it comes from :D It looks lovely!
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[personal profile] ethelmay 2022-01-05 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,/Of course I mean cake, from the pan she had fried 'er..."