Fortieth Anniversary

Photos courtesy of Keith Holmes (Thanks Keith)

Last Saturday we were celebrating my 40 year anniversary as minister here in Childs Hill. It was lovely to see the chapel full with old friends - family, former members, fellow ministers, etc. Robert Strivens preached an excellent semon from 1 Timothy 1:12 and my long serving deacon Paul Priest assembled four members and former members to say nice things about me. There was a wonderful cake (made by one of our Iranian members) and loads of food to follow. I also made a slide presentation of the history of the church which people enjoyed. Thanks yoou for all the cards, money, flowers, etc. Very kind iindeed. God is so good.

10 ways to cut a cake

 

Xmas Foods Countdown 11 - Panettone

You see more of this Italian favourite these days. It's not much of an alternative as it is still full of fruit, but it is quite light in colour and texture.

Xmas Foods Countdown 9 - Tunis Cake

This is another alternative to Christmas cake using Madeira cake covered in chocolate. It only goes back to the thirties and is not Tunisian.

Xmas Foods Countdown 7 - Dundee Cake

This is an alternative to Christmas cake but as we love icing we rarely see one of these

TTRMOMG 09 Cake and biscuits

Among my strongest memories of my grandparents involve food. My Nana Brady in particular was one from making trifles and milk jellies and was always providing cake and biscuits to go with the cuppa. My favourites then were custard creams and what I believe is called Genoa cake. As a child I would always split the custard cream, lick off the "cream" (or scrape it with the back of my front teeth) and then eat the biscuits. Glace cherries were always extracted from the slab of cake and eaten last.