Sweet Things
Rustic Lemon Cake
This is a simple cake. A little something that anyone can do and especially appropriate for Mother’s Day when young children wish to help make something special for the most important person in their lives. Simplicity can be sublime and it is the sweet addition of spring flowers that take this easy to bake cake to the next level. A bit more frosting for those in the camp that cake is all about the buttery, sweet topping, or a wisp of it and the rustic, wholesome tender crumb of this olive oil cake is exposed. Either way, this cake is the perfect way to celebrate the meaning of the word ‘Mother’:
The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word “Mother,” and the most beautiful call is the call of “My mother.”
It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart.
The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness….
Everything in nature bespeaks the mother.
The sun is the mother of earth and gives it its nourishment of heart;
it never leaves the universe at night until it has put the earth to sleep to the song of the sea and the hymn of birds and brooks.
And this earth is the mother of trees and flowers. It produces them, nurses them, and weans them.
The trees and flowers become kind mothers of their great fruits and seeds.
And the mother, the prototype of all existence, is the eternal spirit, full of beauty and love.
Kahil Gibran
