[Sca-cooks] Selene's spice cakes/breads

[Stefan li Rous]

Selene commented:
<<< My big baking push is this weekend for the Christmas Day for Jews,
Orphans and Heathens.  Fruited spicebreads [spiked and unspiked], cutout
cookies. >>>

What are your fruited spicebreads like? I assume these aren't the  
standard fruit cakes.  Recipe?

<<< I think I need an extra hand or three, any locals with a  
hankering for
baking, come on down, take home goodies too.  It's as easy to make four
cakes as it is to make two. >>>

Yes, but doing that first cake is the problem, especially when there  
are only two in the household. But it does sound like your spice  
cakes might keep well, especially if well pickled(?). Can these cakes  
be done with a hand mixer or no mixer?  Thank you again to those on  
this list who recommended I get a hand mixer. I really wouldn't have  
gotten that much use out of a large counter mixer.

If I had made our baronial Yule Revel I had been thinking of making  
wafers and "snow" again. Hmm. Maybe "snow" would be good on top of  
one of Selene's spice breads/cakes? (This time I'll have to do better  
about keeping *all* of the yolks out of the whites).

Stefan
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