Writer's Block: Sweet Tooth

[fajrdrako]

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When I was young, my mother used to make a candy at Christmas, from the Joy of Cooking, 1944 edition. (Another wedding present.) It was called Maple Cream, though it contained no maple. It was a mixture of brown sugar, cream and butter that came out like a hard fudge - a little like Scottish tablet. I loved it with a passion. I've never been able to make it myself, though I've tried, and I've used the same recipe, with my mother's notes in the margin. My ex-husband was able to make it.

In the last few years I've been enjoying sweets less and less. I like creamy things, not sweet things. Popcorn (with butter and salt) is my weakness, not chocolate.

There are no particular treats I associate with Easter. When I was a kid we'd visit my mother's German friend and her family, and I didn't like the German Easter treats at all.

I wish I could be nine years old again, though. I'd love the chocolate Spider-Man figures.

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

And why, pray tell, do you have to be nine in order to possess a chocolate Spider-Man figure???

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't have to be nine to get it or eat it now. Not at all. The thing about being nine is... and truly, I was more than nine at the time, more like ten or eleven... I was in love with Spider-Man then, but he was unknown to the world at large. An obscure new character by Lee and Ditko in an obscure comic book. I was so excited by each and every issue that came out - think of my excitement if there had been toys and candy and games and costumes and all the many, many things we have now. I even bought Spider-Man band-aids last year. Very, very exciting to my inner eleven year old who just couldn't get enough back in 1963.