Gâteau Breton

I'm hosting book club tonight for the first time.  I am going to be serving gâteau breton, which is basically a French pound cake.  I've had the recipe since I was a teenager.  I bought The Global Gourmet cookbook after attending Lac du Bois, the Concordia French Language Camp in Northern Minnesota.  The Global Gourmet is a compilation of recipes from all the Concordia language camps.  I've treasured the book since then as a goldmine of ethnic cuisine from around the world.  Here is the recipe:

"Gâteau Breton
From the French Village and the province for which it is named, comes a simple, buttery cake...

1 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups sugar
6 egg yolks
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

Heat oven to 375.  Grease 8-inch round cake pan.  Cream butter and sugar; beat until fluffy.  Beat in egg yolks until mixture is very pale and fluffy.  Stir in flour.  Pour into greased pan.  Smooth top carefully; then run a large tined fork around the cake in a series of concentric circles.  Bake about 40 minutes.
8 servings."

As you see, it's a ridiculously simple recipe.  You just have to pretend not to notice how much cholesterol must be in the recipe with all those eggs.

My finished Gateau Breton

Mission Statement

This is not my first blog.  I've tried before to write, but my posts were too few and far between, and the blog languished.  Why would anyone read a blog that only posts every few months, if then?  And what's the point in blogging if no one wants to read it?  So I believe I need to really commit to posting regularly on this blog if it is going to succeed.  In order to do that, I am going to generalize the blogging topics a little bit.  In the past, my blogs were too specific.  If I have a crafting blog, then I only post when I actually complete a craft.  But what if I go several months without crafting at all?  So this time I'm going to present this blog as an extension of myself.  It will be a vehical to share my crafting, baking, music, painting, and reading projects, in addition to talking about my feelings and experiences as a young wife and mother.

Another failure of my previous blogs:  I did not participate in the blogging community.  If I really want readers, I need to actually read and participate in other people's blogs.  So I am going to search out like minded people in the blogosphere so we can share and support eachother's endevors.  Do you think that I would enjoy reading your blog?  Post your link or send me an e-mail.  I will try to respond without delay.

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