psamphire ([info]psamphire) wrote,
@ 2008-03-17 14:58:00
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St Patrick's Day
Back when I was a kid and we lived in Zambia, the nuns at the local convent/hospital used to bake a wonderful cake for me every St Patrick's Day.

One of the greatest disappointments of my life in coming back to England was discovering that I didn't automatically get a St Patrick's Day cake every year. In fact, I haven't had one since. I would like the world to take note.


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[info]meredith_wood
2008-03-17 03:04 pm UTC (link)
That's horrible. Cake is a staple of life and to have a favorite that you can't get anymore...

So sad. I (hand to chest) feel you. I s'pose you've looked for this recipe?

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[info]psamphire
2008-03-17 03:19 pm UTC (link)
Sadly, it was too long ago for me to remember what the cake was exactly. It did have apple in, though. Lovely, sweet slices of apple on top. Mmmm... :)

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[info]meredith_wood
2008-03-17 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Yum. I love apple anything. *G*

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[info]kate_schaefer
2008-03-17 04:59 pm UTC (link)
I want to read the story that starts with that first sentence, the one where the narrator (obviously, someone named Patrick) is reminded of that cake by something slightly more portentous than it just being St. Patrick's day again. This narrator is clearly a close relation of the narrator of "Uncle Vernon's Lie," but probably not the same boy.

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[info]psamphire
2008-03-18 01:54 pm UTC (link)
It would be a very sad story, I fear, as anything lacking cake always is. :)

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[info]mallory_blog
2008-03-17 08:01 pm UTC (link)
::points toward kitchen and ingredients:::

you are ENTITLED to cake...err...entitled to make yer own...

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[info]psamphire
2008-03-18 01:55 pm UTC (link)
Doesn't work without nuns, I'm afraid. Wouldn't be a proper St Patrick's Day cake without attached nuns!

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[info]tltrent
2008-03-17 08:53 pm UTC (link)
I admit to blinking when I read this b/c I was trying to figure out if it was a story or serious. Obviously, it is both. ;)

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[info]psamphire
2008-03-18 01:55 pm UTC (link)
Life is a story without a plot. Or something.

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