Sunday, June 3, 2012

My cake was always perfect



Monte Carlo
Taking its name from the famous European city, Monte Carlo is one of Arnott’s most famous cream biscuits. Created in 1926, it features two home-style honey and coconut biscuits and a layer of rich raspberry flavoured cream filling. A great everyday treat


In response to my Mothers' Day thoughts and reflections, a special friend, Jane, wrote, "When I was a child we just gave Mum breakfast in bed with flowers on her breakfast tray and tried not to burn the toast. I would sometimes make a chocolate cake which was quite a messy process for Mum to deal with but she only offered praise at my childish attempts.
According to Mum my cake was always perfect. That's all that mattered to me. "

Clara
So much of our pleasing is to do with simple nuturing ways - which children pick up and then attempt to transfer the same loving gestures. One memory I have, is the Mothers' Day of the burnt Popcorn, when this was considered the ultimate treat for Mum in bed. It took great restraint to stay in bed, with the fumes drifting upstairs to the bedroom. And yet another, was a very creative rendition of Monte Carlos which were a favourite of mine. I think that every conceivable sweet ingredient in the pantry was combined to produce this unusual offering. (Kitchen was a treat as well!) But I loved it. Thanks xx


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For the good of the nation

To babyboomers
Before I was a mom

My friend R from Milwaukee wrote...My mom was my best friend and is always on my mind, especially on Mother's Day. The one memory that stays with me vividly is that she was always there everyday, waiting for us to get home from school. On the rare day that I got home to find her gone, I can remember sitting in the window of our living room watching for her to come around the corner. She did not drive, so she would walk "downtown" to shop. I can still see her walking back home to us.

Clara - Mine too - How fortunate we were to have those nuturing memories. Not as easy for young mums to achieve that today, much as they would like to.
And of course at that time, women's identity was centred on family responsibilities; marriage and motherhood were advocated as being women's main career path - to look after men, populate the country and be optimistic in the face of misery, when men were the courageous soldiers and women were self sacrificing supporters - for the good of the nation. From the 'Australian Women's Weekly' - 1940s fiction and the construction of the female identity.









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