The lurgi has left me but I’m getting tired very easily and although I had good intentions to go to life drawing this evening, I’m too shattered. So I drew a pile of bags that I’d dumped on the floor instead. I’m so slovenly. I used Pentel V5 and Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into my blue silk recycled A6 sketchbook, which only has a few blank pages left.
Husb is glad I’m missing life drawing tonight because he can pile into the Victoria Sandwich I made to take with me.
I filled it with home-made strawberry butter. Which doesn’t contain butter; it’s a Victorian preserve made by sieving cooked fruit and boiling the pulp with sugar, in the same way as jam. The result has a buttery texture and is great for filling sponge cakes. It turns a lovely dark purple, not at all like the vivid pink of raw strawberries.
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Cake and sketch are awesome. Happy me I’m not hungry just now. 😉 Have a nice weekend!
Thank you :). The cake didn’t last long once Husb got started.
Love the cake…and the tablecloth too!
I like the detail in the bags in the sketch.
Thanks 🙂 I like drawing bags, lots going on
More exotic foodstuffs I’ve never heard of. The Victoria Sandwich looks and sounds quite enticing.
It’s a great favourite here. Queen Victoria and her ladies in waiting used to take tea and cake in the afternoon because dinner was served quite late in the evening in Victorian times and there was a long gap after lunch. Here’s a link
http://www.historymadefun.co.uk/Victoria_Sandx.htm
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I bet the Victorians didn’t have “self-raising flour” 😉
oooh that’s an interesting thought. hmmmm, now I’m going to have to find out – you’ve unleashed my inner geek lol. You can make sponges by whisking eggs, almost like a meringue. Now I’m obsessed 😀
I can see why your Husb didn’t want you to go! Yumm!
He finished it with a friend this morning. When it comes to cake, he takes no prisoners lol
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Yum! Stay in and stay well! See you on Saurday!
Thanks Kara. Feel a lot better today. I think I just overdid it yesterday.
looks nice 🙂
Thank you. Husb enjoyed it 🙂