Today is the first day of our Christmas vacation in New Jersey and I thought that it would be fun to post little blog posts for each day. We arrived at the Philadelphia airport at 11:00 AM EST after catching a redeye from Seattle last night. Instead of heading back to the New Jersey homestead we went out to the Philadelphia farmer’s market, a model train display,and a display of the history of building toys. We had a classic Philadelphia lunch and capped it off with designer cupcakes before heading into Macy’s to see the world’s largest pipe organ and an “amazing” light display and then made the road trip back to South Mill Road. Linda made us some delicious pumpkin stew and we ended the day with Christmas piano music and a sing-a-long.
The story of the day is that of velvet cupcakes. We ate a velvet cupcake today and while enjoying the cake Linda explained that velvet cake used to be very difficult to find. Her aunt Roberta once at a particularly delicious velvet cake at a bakery and asked for the recipe. Roberta was happy to find that they were quite accommodating and provided her the recipe. Imagine her surprise when she got home and found that she had been charged $100 (in the year 1950) for the recipe. Angry, Roberta distributed the recipe to many many people. Some time after this velvet cake became widely available. Was this Roberta’s doing? We will probably never know.
Goodnight.