Which ancestor would you most want to invite to dinner? Is there a story of a memorable dinner with an ancestor, or is there a special recipe that's been handed down?
I decided to go with the handed down recipe.
It hasn't been handed down far yet. It came from my Grandma Edwards. She was always baking. Whenever we went to Grandma's house, we were guaranteed to have something freshly baked sitting there for us. Butterhorns, sugar cookies, pie, or her classic Lamingtons.
Her lamingtons were the stuff of dreams. I tease my kids all the time that when something tastes good, I ask them how it is made and when they give their answer, I tell them that they are wrong, and that it is made by fairies scooping up rainbows. They might be tired of this particular joke, but it almost fits here. These taste like fairies scooped them from rainbows.
So what is a lamington?
It is an Australian dessert that is essentially a dense cake cut into squares, dipped in chocolate and then rolled in shredded coconut.
Here is the recipe:
3 Eggs
1 1/4 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup sugar
1 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup boiling water
Beat eggs for 15 minutes, add sugar, flour, bakign powder, then butter and boiling water.
Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees.
When cold, cut into squares, roll in runny chocolate icing and roll in coconut.
They really are my favorite dessert. Now that Grandma has passed away, I don't get to go over and enjoy her baking anymore.
My wife now makes these every year for my birthday.
Any family function, these are guaranteed to be there kind of as a memorium for Grandma.
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