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CORNWALL HONEY SPICE MORNING CAKE - JAN 1, 2023

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For my first Poldark recipe I chose the morning cake for two reasons.  1) after the holidays, I'm tired of cooking and 2) I happened to have all the ingredients in stock!  If you watched the series, you would have seen Aunt Agatha munching away on such a delicacy as this morning cake.  Honey spice cake was a popular breakfast at Trenwith, the Poldark manor house.  Besides being a popular morning dish, this cake would also be served to guests who visited in the afternoon along with brandy or port. (they sure drank a lot of port in that day)   Teetotaler that I am, I will not be serving brandy or port with my cake.  Whether you are drinking port or tea or coffee, I can assure you this cake will most definitely compliment your choice of drink.  It reminded me of a simple boxed pumpkin bread.  It was easy to make, the house smelled amazing and I actually liked it! I felt a little like Demelza for a few minutes!  January in the Poldark kitche...
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1785 in 2023; A New Year?

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 It's true, we will be celebrating a new year and with new years, typically comes new resolutions.  I love a New Year's resolution and often participate in them.  This years resolution of mine will be going back in time...Poldark time.  I am a new fan of the series Poldark, Downton Abbey and the Gilded Age.  For me, that period in time, in this case 1785,  was all about survival.  I've always wondered if I could have survived in that time. If we run out of milk today, we have several options: 1)  We can hop into our cars and go pick up a gallon. 2) We can stay in our cars and have the store employee bring it out to us or  3)  Probably the most foreign to Poldark's day, we can have the store deliver the milk to our home.  Sounds insane when I think about how the Poldarks and other villagers of Cornwall survived the winters waiting for a shipload of fish!  I recently purchased, The Unofficial POLDARK Cookbook.  As with Downt...
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