It Bit the Dust

I have had to finally give up on my  my mother's old Kenmore sewing machine.  Apparently my mom and grandma split the cost when I was a baby.  It definitely needs a tune up before I return it to my mom and I think it will go back to working fine but for now I need to use a better machine.  It has stopped zigzagging and now it will not even straight stitch.  There is probably an easy explanation for this but I can't figure it out.  I am now using a Necchi.  It is OK but change sucks!  It is still faster to figure stuff out on this machine than screw around with the Kenmore every 20 minutes.  I really want a Pfaff,  cash donations are welcome!

Friday Night Fun

Since my husband spent his Friday golfing and is now watching the hockey game I am going to spend the night in my sewing room!  I can't decide if that is sad or not!

Thank Goodness for the Practice Cake

In honour of my inlaws' 40th wedding anniversary (and the arrival of my Kitchenaid) I decided to bake a lemon chiffon cake.  They are my mother-in-law's favourite and it never hurts to suck up.  The good people at Kitchenaid even have a recipe for such a cake so I knew it would work out.  The day before I decided to make a practice cherry chiffon cake (substitute cherry juice for lemon flavouring and add some almond extract).  To complicate matters the practice cake had to be gluten free, sometimes gluten free things turn out funny.  Too dry, too heavy, rarely too wet.  All went well until I decided to use a bundt pan in lieu of an angel food pan.  I filled that pan right to the top without thinking that the cake would rise.

It tasted fine but the oven needed a good scraping out (and will be cleaned eventually) before I could bake the real cake.  Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

The actual lemon chiffon looked and tasted great thanks to the correct pan size and my husband who scraped the oven out!  I forgot to take a photo though.

A reasonable approximation of my cake, I did add some food colouring to the glaze.