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Is it Sunday already!!
Hey everyone! Hope you
are having a great weekend! Gee the weeks are flying by. Next Sunday will be
the monthly updates. Summer will be over before we know it, and with the
heat wave we have been having......I'm afraid I am all for it to be over.
Next week will be cooler and so we will be finally getting a break from all
the heat and I can actually open the house up again and let in the natural
air. My plants on the sun porch will be so happy! They have been hanging out
there with there little plant tongues hanging out...heeheee!!
Getting ready to put a
cake in the oven. Sunday always means special dessert day around here.
Always has and always will! Today I am making a lemon layer cake with lemon
buttercream frosting. Oh Yummo! Just typing the words makes my mouth water!
I have decided to share the recipe this week with y'all cause.... nothing
says summer like a fresh lemon layer cake that Grandma used to make!! Treat
yourself to this cake! We are also having barbeque ribs, baked potato, corn
on the cob and salad today. Typical summer meal topped off with the lemon
cake for later! Life is good....
Well I got a customer
order for a quilt. I think I told y'all about it last week?? We shopped for
the fabric on Friday. Bill had a vacation day so we went to Columbus to the
Super Joann fabrics. I haven't been there for a long long time! I was really
looking forward to it and to shopping for the fabric and using my coupons to
boot. I was so disappointed in the store and how it has changed! Their
fabric selection was horrible!! And they have half of the fabrics that they
used to have. Quilting fabrics that is. I ended up only buying a fat quarter
of dark red and 2 Australian quilting magazines, now you know I couldn't
pass those up!!! You know how addicted I am to those and I haven't bought
any since well.....forever! Seems like forever anyway...heeheee! Decided to
do the shop hop and stopped at a really great quilt shop called the Red
Rooster, there in Dublin Ohio. What a nice shop and nice people that work
there! I highly recommend this quilt shop. Found all my fabrics that I
needed and got a free pattern from them to boot! What a nice place! I will
definitely be going back there again!! Bill is washing the fabrics as we
speak. Ya.....he does the laundry around here. He really likes doing it and
I am not going to fight him on it! Since we bought the new washer and
dryer....I don't even know how it works, it's all digital. I guess I could
figure it out....but why should I when he takes great joy in doing the
laundry! Weird huh!!
Went up to the sewing
room to sew the block of the week and it was so hot up there.....well
needless to say...I haven't been spending a lot of time up there since it's
been so hot. We live in an old 126 year old Victorian with limited vents
upstairs for heating and cooling and my sewing room and the guest bedroom do
not have vents. So whatever air conditioning makes it's way upstairs is all
it gets. Our bedroom shares the only vent upstairs with the full bath, and
so we have a window air conditioner in our bedroom that we use at night only
when it's really hot outside! Got the block sewn and got outta there. Looks
like I am going to have to put a major big fan up there this week since I
plan to get that customer quilt all cut out this week. Glad there is a cold
front on the way to cool things down. I plan to take full advantage of the
cooler system coming through and get as much done on that quilt as I can
while it lasts!
Wow just noticed the
time and got my ribs in the boil. I like to cook them almost done by boiling
them in water that is seasoned with garlic powder, salt and pepper. Then
cover them up in a 9 by 13 inch dish with tons of Sweet Baby Rays barbecue
sauce....the hickory and brown sugar kind......and then cover them up
tightly with foil and bake at 325 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours or till they
fall apart...yum! Time is speeding away!
The block of the week
this week is one that I didn't design. It's an old pattern from 1931 called
Rebecca's Fan. I would love to take credit for it....but it's not my design.
Hope you all enjoy having it in your collection. Since it has a curved seam,
I don't recommend this block for the beginner, but if you want to try it, go
for it!! It's not that hard but can be a little challenging for a beginner.
Just use lots of pins when you try to put it together. There are no
instructions given as it has a diagram and is pretty self explanatory. Makes
a 10" block. Please don't email me to draft this pattern as a 12" block. The
main template will not fit on the copy paper as it would be too big. This
one you will have to be happy with as a 10" Sorry!
Just wanted to mention
that I have added 3 more Blocks of the Month to the list below. I hope that
you are checking this list every week! If you don't...then you may miss a
block and not all of the blocks of the months that I have listed....archive
the current blocks as they come out. So make sure that you check the list
for new ones you may be interested in doing!
Well guess I better
close this for now. Ribs will be coming off the stove soon and be ready for
their bbq sauce bath! Looks like I will be baking that cake this afternoon
after dinner now! Bill is looking forward to it! Take care and stay
cool. Next Sunday will be the monthly updates and there will be quilting and
crafting links updates done this time! Today is
Threading the Needle Day ....so go and sew something wonderful and I
will talk to you next Sunday!!
From my sewing room to yours,
Becky
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Recipe of The
Week
Lemon Layer Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting
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1/2 cup Crisco shortening
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1-3/4 cups sugar
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6 egg yolks
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2-1/2 cups sifted cake flour
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2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1 cup plus 3 tablespoons milk
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1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
Cream the shortening, then add the sugar, beating well. Reduce speed to
medium and add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each
addition.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add to
the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with
the flour mixture. Stir in the lemon rind.
Pour batter into prepared cake pans, and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or
until cake tests done with toothpick or cake tester. Cool layers in pans
for 10 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely before frosting.
Lemon Buttercream Frosting:
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1/2 cup butter, softened
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1 egg yolk
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1-pound box (3-3/4 cups) powdered sugar
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1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
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5 to 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolk, beating well,
and gradually beat in the sugar with the lemon juice until desired
spreading consistency is reached.
Spread frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake layers.
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