I've got you in my rain parade

[sovay]

Whatever was left of my sleep schedule seems to have departed with the lost hour of Daylight Saving Time, but for my mother's birthday observed this evening, I made her a sticky toffee pudding. I had never essayed a recipe in this family before. My father assisted by applying an immersion blender to the chopped dates when it transpired that the Cuisinart had died and all ingredients would have to be combined by me and a whisk; he also handled the making of the extra sauce while I did the same with the toffee sauce within the window of time it took the pudding itself to bake in an oven that fortunately stayed at temperature as it has not always been doing recently. It came out moist and spongy and far lighter than I had expected from anything with a base of reconstituted dried fruit. Its one downside as a celebratory dessert was our suspicion that it could not be decorated with candles unless we wanted to swirl wax into the toffee still bubbling from the broiler, but we did stick a candle into my mother's serving so that we could properly sing to her. She loved it, which was the goal of the exercise. She expressed delight over the stack of books which comprised her presents. My brother and niece called in on the talkie window and were duly promised pudding, since my niece arrives for a flying visit tomorrow. She meows at me whenever I chirrup at her, even though long-distance glass. I still don't feel as though I am feeling better, but the last thing I remember baking from scratch was for Thanksgiving.

Comments

[nineweaving]

Mmm! My dear English friends used to take me to a lovely old-fashioned hotel in the Lake District, full of silvery old gents with alpenstocks, wearing tweed plus-fours and lovingly dubbined leather hiking boots. On sticky toffee pudding night, the generals used to crowd the gong, yowling ecstatically. It was that good.

A very happy birthday to your wonderful mother.

*hugs*

Nine

[moon_custafer]

I'm visualizing this hotel as a Ronald Searle cartoon.

[nineweaving]

How lovely! In a back issue of Punch, no doubt.

Nine

[sovay]

On sticky toffee pudding night, the generals used to crowd the gong, yowling ecstatically.

I'm with moon_custafer on the Ronald Searle.

A very happy birthday to your wonderful mother.

I have conveyed your well-wishing!

*hugs*

[mrissa]

What a lovely thing to do for her, I'm so glad you could give her a happy birthday.

[sovay]

What a lovely thing to do for her, I'm so glad you could give her a happy birthday.

Thank you. It was important and fun.

[luzula]

Oh, I tried sticky toffee pudding when I visited Britain and loved it!

[sovay]

Oh, I tried sticky toffee pudding when I visited Britain and loved it!

It was much less complicated than I imagined to make! With a working food processor, I imagine it would have been less complicated still!

[minoanmiss]

Happy birthday to your mother!

In the Middle-Eastern grocery near me I found an amazing product: date paste. pre-ground-up dates!

[sovay]

Happy birthday to your mother!

Thank you! Conveyed!

In the Middle-Eastern grocery near me I found an amazing product: date paste. pre-ground-up dates!

I would just eat that like candy.

[aurumcalendula]

Ooh! That sounds delicious!

*hugs* (I'm always annoyed about losing that hour to Daylight Savings)

[sovay]

Ooh! That sounds delicious!

It was! It was good the next day when heated, too.

(I'm always annoyed about losing that hour to Daylight Savings)

(It is unfair and we should not.)

*hugs*

[rydra_wong]

Sticky toffee pudding was my beloved late grandfather's favourite treat, and consequently members of my family tend to declare that we're obliged to have it on his behalf whenever it appears on a menu.

[sovay]

Sticky toffee pudding was my beloved late grandfather's favourite treat, and consequently members of my family tend to declare that we're obliged to have it on his behalf whenever it appears on a menu.

My family is something of the same way about my grandmother and persimmons.

[choco_frosh]

Hurrah for your mother, and for the Sticky Toffee Pudding!
(Used to be a specialty of my mom's favorite Cambridgeshire gastropub: The Chequers, in Fowlmere [U/R]. Also apparently a specialty of one of our ringers here.)

I am sorry that DST has reborked your sleep. Good luck, and hugs.

[sovay]

Hurrah for your mother, and for the Sticky Toffee Pudding!

Thank you!

(Used to be a specialty of my mom's favorite Cambridgeshire gastropub: The Chequers, in Fowlmere [U/R]. Also apparently a specialty of one of our ringers here.)

(Nice. Do you have particular preferences about it?)

I am sorry that DST has reborked your sleep. Good luck, and hugs.

Much appreciated. If I can reestablish sleep, I might even be able to write again.

*hugs*

[osprey_archer]

A homemade sticky toffee pudding sounds like an amazing birthday present! What a happy birthday for your mother.

[sovay]

A homemade sticky toffee pudding sounds like an amazing birthday present! What a happy birthday for your mother.

Thank you! I was informed it remained good, heated, the next day.

[selkie]

Many happy returns of the eon to your mother! The sticky toffee pudding sounds excellent for a time such as this.

[sovay]

Many happy returns of the eon to your mother! The sticky toffee pudding sounds excellent for a time such as this.

Thank you! A delicious moral necessity.

[davidgillon]

Daylight Saving Time

We have to wait until the end of the month, I could do with the lighter evenings now.

sticky toffee pudding.

Yum!

[sovay]

We have to wait until the end of the month, I could do with the lighter evenings now.

I'm sorry. I hope the intervening time treats you well.

Yum!

10/10, would make again.

[gwynnega]

I love sticky toffee pudding as much as I detest the time change! A very happy birthday to your mother.

[sovay]

I love sticky toffee pudding as much as I detest the time change! A very happy birthday to your mother.

Thank you! And sympathy. I would make you a sticky toffee pudding if we owned teleporters.

[pameladean]

Oh, wow, sticky toffee pudding, what a great birthday cake! It's mythological to me but I've always wondered about it.

Solidarity from the wrong side of the time change, blargh. The cats are so annoyed and confused.

P.

[sovay]

Oh, wow, sticky toffee pudding, what a great birthday cake! It's mythological to me but I've always wondered about it.

It's delicious! Could it be made by your household with adaptations? It is surprisingly date-based, but also dairy-heavy.

Solidarity from the wrong side of the time change, blargh. The cats are so annoyed and confused.

Thank you. Much sympathy in turn to your cats.