tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post5091991496092307907..comments2024-03-28T19:59:32.409-07:00Comments on Eat The Blog: Tea BrackGoodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-68841412391096030292014-10-31T12:22:30.306-07:002014-10-31T12:22:30.306-07:00@Connie
Have you noticed all these scare pieces i...@Connie<br /><br />Have you noticed all these scare pieces in the news about dope-laced candy they're so worried about kids getting for Halloween? I guess because a couple of states legalised it? <br /><br />I have to think this is terribly unlikely, but yeah you probably shouldn't go handing out cake with cloth in it (or teeny-tiny pieces of cardboard...)Yikes!<br /><br />@Curtis<br /><br />The charms are used for fortune telling. The coin is wealth, the bean poverty, the matchstick a stick to beat your spouse with (that's the non-PC version anyway) the thimble is spinsterhood, the button bachelorhood, and so on. The charms and meanings vary a bit by region. <br /><br />And now to be *really* bread-nerdish...the "barm" in barmbrack refers to the yeast leftover from brewing that was used as a leavening agent years ago. That's why this quickbread sort is called, "tea brack" rather than "Barmbrack." <br /><br />I need to get a life, don't I? Maybe I should seek out some of those dope-laced treats people are handing out for Halloween! Or, I could just stop by Connie's place ;)Goodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383404429461423998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-57801496513282356052014-10-31T02:43:08.302-07:002014-10-31T02:43:08.302-07:00Sounds delicious. I haven't heard of putting c...Sounds delicious. I haven't heard of putting charms in a cake, only coins in a Christmas pudding. I'm laughing at old hippy Connie and her suspicious neighbours! xxxCurtisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362184504889147455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7189165.post-69251353436463584832014-10-30T20:45:30.829-07:002014-10-30T20:45:30.829-07:00I have never heard of this cake. I Wikied it up. S...I have never heard of this cake. I Wikied it up. So interesting. I'd bake one except that I am the only one in the fam who likes fruity cake which means that I would have to eat the whole thing myself. Or give it away to a neighbor. But they don't trust me. They think I'm an old hippie....because I AM! If I handed out cake with a piece of cloth inside they'd run me out of town.Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03938255518222756688noreply@blogger.com