(This is a repost from a couple of years ago, but has withstood the test of time.)
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 a great one.)
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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