Wind

Yes, the wind blew the smoke in our eyes, but it was such a lovely day with friends.    

My husband was asked to be Godfather!

And I prepared + baked an election day cake! There's still plenty of time for you to bake one.

I used sourdough starter.  In the small measuring cup is sorghum molasses, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, ginger...

I soaked dried apricots, plums, dates + raisins in white wine for 24 hours.  I mixed the sourdough starter with milk + flour and let it ferment for 12 hours at room temperature.  Then mixed the butter, sugar, eggs... Let rise 2 hours.  Baked.  And the end result:

The whole recipe, from Old World Levain, can be found here.