served with steaming cups of hot coffee and a big cloth napkin

I recently featured Aunt Mabel's chocolate pie here. In that post I mentioned how my dad's sisters also made exceptional biscuits. When we were growing up, and went down to Provencal or Shreveport (Louisiana) to visit, at most meals there were biscuits, and always a tin of Steens Cane syrup to drizzle on top.

Honey is what I put on my biscuits, but I do like a good "syrup cake" made with Steens.

It's kind of like gingerbread - a warm, spicy, dark, rich, moist, cake. But a bit less sweet.

I like it best for breakfast. With plain greek yogurt and fruit with a drizzle of honey and chopped walnuts. In my next life, when I have a bookstore with a coffee bar, this selection will be available during the months of October and November. Served with steaming cups of hot coffee and a large, thick, cloth napkin. Because when cake is this tall, and must go in your mouth alongside the fruit and yogurt, it's a big messy bite. 

If you want to make this, please use the recipe below. It's from the Steen's cookbook. If you google it you may get one that adds sugar in addition to the syrup as a sweetener, and that is just not a "real" syrup cake. 

P.S. If you come to the bookstore I will be operating in my next life, and order this for breakfast, do not be one bit surprised when I serve it up to you in a big ol' southern accent. And as I walk by with a pot of coffee (because I will be able to cook, serve, answer questions about books, run the cash register, and pet the cat all at the same time) I will not ask you if you want a refill, I will instead ask "you need another swoller o' coffee?" 

Comments

[Sharon]

Your southern memories of fine biscuits remind me of a recent internet post: "Why most of America is terrible at making biscuits". Google it under that title and read about White Lily self rising flour, which I'll bet is what your aunts used! I'm thinking about giving it a try!!

[Amy in Texas]

Oh, sounds delicious! And I'll be happy to visit that bookstore in your next life.

[DaisyMae]

What time do you open?