Weekend baking project. Mead and peach cake
Weekend baking project. Mead and peach cake
A mead and peach cake to celebrate Midsummer, the days of light, abundance and harvest.
We’re close to Midsummer, the Summer Solstice, when we celebrated fertility, abundance, success. It’s the time to seize the opportunity and enjoy the moment, now that the days are endless and that the light steals precious hours to the night. This is the season of the massive old oak, warm colours, lavender, chamomile, rosemary and sage. In the Celtic rites, they consumed fresh fruits and vegetables, ale, mead and fruit juices.
Today’s weekend baking project dates back to 2012. I have been craving this cake for months, and finally I baked it. It was also the perfect occasion to bake it for Tommaso, for the first time. He appreciated the cake, and once more, he decided that the weekend cooking project is a brilliant idea, as he is finally tasting recipes that belong to the first years of blogging, before I met him.
Mead and peach cake
Today’s ritual mead and peach cake celebrates Midsummer, the days of light, abundance and harvest, and was inspired by the Celtic legends that have always fascinated me since the first fantasy books I’ve read, many summers ago, in that fresh bed in my grandmother’s house during one of those long summer afternoons of my childhood.
It’s a cake that would suit woods and forests, fairies and leprechauns, it’s crammed with fresh fruit, ripe peaches, lit by a drop of mead. Enjoy this beautiful summer, my friends!
Find the recipe for the mead and peach cake on the blog.
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