I despise duplicity and deception (but apparently not alliteration) except on April Fool's Day. So, I bring you a delightful kitchen-born practical joke -- and a delicious one!
The fried egg on toast pictured above is trompe l'oeil at its best. In fact, it is a canned half peach surrounded by whipped cream on a slice of sponge cake. I found this gem of a recipe in a 1956 spiral bound cookbook (simply called Cook Book) published by the women of Circle "B" of the First Brethren Church.
I'm not publishing a sponge cake recipe because the one I made did not come out well. Very low rise, which is fine in jeans but not in cake. If you want to fool friends and family, I think a slice of pound cake would do nicely. (Meantime, I'll be baking my way through dozens of sponge cake recipes in my collection until I find one worthy of 2012.)
Today's April Fool's joke is reminiscent of a trick I played on my son when he was in middle school (and that I recreated below). Instead of his usual bacon and eggs for breakfast, I served him bacon and gummy candy fried eggs. (He didn't complain -- candy for breakfast was quite a treat!)
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What a trickster!! First glance the the picture had ME fooled :)
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Ah, too bad you weren't here for breakfast!! Thanks for writing -- always nice to hear from you.
DeleteThat's awesome! I'm going to have to make a note to remember this for next year. My husband will freak!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tug's Girl! Let me know if you remember -- and if it works!!
DeleteThat's great! I'll have to do that next year. This year I am whipping up some Fauxberry Chocolate Pie for dinner and Chicken Pot Pie for dessert!
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Aimee -- Funny! I just checked out those recipes and they're on my list for next year!
DeleteYou fooled me, too. Looked so good even if it was egg in toast, but even better as sponge cake, whipped cream and peach. YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
ReplyDeleteThanks, kevel88. It was pretty tasty!
DeleteI missed this yesterday, but it is still very funny (and cute). (Mightn't this be a sweet surprise for a Mother's Day breakfast in bed? And easy enough for a little one to make.)
ReplyDeletePerfect for Mother's Day! Brilliant idea!
DeleteGreat little trick. Here our fool´s day is december 28 and there´s a phrase to say, that has to do with being naive, when someone `falls in your trap´. A nice way to say they were fools!
ReplyDeleteAh, people are so much kinder in Spain! Thanks for writing.
DeleteThank you! I grew up eating these and have been wanting one lately. I was racking my brain trying to remember what they were called. Now I remember, although we just called them fried eggs.
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