On the way to work I saw a young lady in a skirt that
appeared to be made entirely out of doilies. It was very tasteful really, but
it reminded me of cake: my Gran’s cake to be precise. I used to love the days
when a three-tier coffee cake would be wheeled into the living room on a
trolley, sitting proudly atop a doily. And who doesn't love a trolley with cake on?! Mobile cake is, for some inexplicable reason, far more tempting than static cake. Doilies must be the preserve of elderly
woman who bake, since I have never seen the in use anywhere else (except by
some ladies’ skirt manufacturers perhaps). I’m not even sure what their
function is. It must be entirely decorative since they contain enough holes to
render their possible usefulness as a crumb collecting device null and void.
Incidentally, when did ‘hard’ icing go out of fashion?! I
used to enjoy a bit of hard icing, though soft icing is equally delish, and
does not flake and fall on the floor like hard icing when you bite into it.
Sometimes pre-empting the flaking was the best thing about hard icing, since
you could peel it off and eat it separately. Perhaps I need to dress as I did
in the 1980s and eat hard icing again. Perhaps not.
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