Nativi-Tea! Festivi-Tea!

Tea and cake or Death? Tea and cake or Death! Little Red Cookbook! Little Red Cookbook! I'm baking another cake. Because I intend to be prepared when the revolution comes. What, you don't think that revolutionaries will like cake? I think they will and no one who can bake a great cake will be up against the wall when the revolution comes.

Onto prezzies. Like Queenie I love prezzies. If for some reason you want to make me squee with delight I suggest alcohol. Beer, vodka, wine, it does not matter what, I'm an equal opportunity souse, fewer hops is better, but I drink most anything.

If you just want tea and cake then you shall have cake for guests are also like presents. If you want to eat something besides cake you should bring it. If you want to show up well do so, for the time of people starting to arrive shall be three. And people shall also arrive after three and if the lateness of their coming is as late as six there may be drinking. But no one should feel pressure to drink anything other than tea. And if you want you can have a silly hat to wear while you drink tea.

So, tea at three with me. If you're in Denver. If you are not in Denver then you also shall have tea and cake if you care to make it. I would do it for you but the post gets very upset when I try to mail tea. If you drink hard drinks bring alcohol. I only have enough for a dozen or two to get really drunk and we would not want to run out. Or we could go out.
 

Strategic Cake Reserve

Well the second cake did not fall, but it did fall out of the pan. I'm not sure if this was a function of not enough baking or the poppyseeds. But the cake survived its premature removal from the pan since it only dropped a few inches. But next time I shall be sure to give the pan an extra washing with soap and probably leave out the poppyseed as I think they're good, but not a huge positive. And I'll let it bake for nearly an hour rather than just 55 minutes.

This cake was rapped on the counter, did have the right amount of leavening, and only had an extra tablespoon of flour. The texture is finer and the cake's consistency seems overall better. I think that next time I shall get it exactly right. And it is not even that hard a cake to make.