Today, I dug out the Bunnykins dishes and got Finnie's flatware ready for her. There are four silver, toddler size pieces that were used by our children when they were Finnie's age. And they are the only pieces of silverware in the house (!) - in stark contrast to Finnie's other, French grandmother, Sophie, and the beautiful array of family silver she lays on an antique white tablecloth when she gets ready for company in their country home by the sea. In the absence of the antique table linens, the truly lovely table settings, the sand and sea, I console myself with the thought that, at the very least, we should have snow and a white Christmas!
Isabelle has suggested having some plastic dishes on hand too as Finnie sometimes ends her meals with a flourish that can involve glassware and gravity!
And cooling tonight before being carefully packaged for the freezer:
Arrowroot Squares
They are at Rachael's request. We have been eating these squares at Christmas now for over thirty years. Arrowroot cookies are broken into small bits, mixed with walnuts and held together as a base with an egg, butter, cocoa, sugar mixture. Then semi sweet chocolate is spread over the top. Followed by butter icing and a heavy drizzle of melted chocolate.
Date Squares - aka Matrimonial Squares
This is Isabelle's only request and it is another old, old recipe that we have been making forever.
2 comments:
It's weird that MY squares are so awesome, and Isa's are so... yuck. Look at them, side by side, one so delightfully sweet and icing-covered, the other so... laxativey. Who likes dates? Bleck. And who decided to put them in dessert? Bleck. My squares have chocolate. That's proper.
That being said, the dates could really throw Hadley's Progress Chart. Maybe we should have a betting pool...
NOTHING throws the Progress Chart.
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