Tonight was the reception for Arlene’s friend Lynda’s show at the Newton library. Arlene had gone over there a week or ten days ago to help hang the show. I heard a lot about the show, how the space is for hanging art, and so on.
Lynda is the person who told Arlene about the Nature Printing Society. We went to their conference in the summer of 2005. Lynda does most of her art with leaves, crushed eggshells, and other natural objects. She has a really nice sense of color as well as a feel for composition, which makes her work easy to take. Still, there’s a good variety in it — it doesn’t really all look the same.
Well, I have to break off now and check a Guiness Gingerbread that’s almost ready to come out of the oven downstairs. Recipe from Epicurious, link thanks to this blog, post from Nov. 3.
So how WAS this recipe. It looks intriguing!
The cake didn’t want to come out of the bundt pan — I’ve had that trouble with bundt pans before, I just don’t know how to prepare them properly — but outside of that was excellent. I took it (untasted — so I couldn’t tell you how it was until now) to a potluck party on Friday, two days after I made it, and it was very well received. When I packed up what was left to take home, the hostess asked if I would leave another piece for her.
When it says to cook the stout and molasses in a large saucepan, it means large. When I added the baking soda to the hot liquid it foamed up a lot and some spilled over my medium saucepan, which meant that the measurements weren’t accurate any more.