Free parkin

To my surprise, since it struck me as being basically less-interesting gingerbread, the parkin cake was a big hit at the Guy Fawkes party. It was easier than easy to make--just be prepared to slop up your kitchen a bit with blackstrap molasses. Here's a page with 33 recipes, not one of which is one I used, since that came straight out of the Joy of Cooking. (I wanted to try the recipe with the beer in it, but "two-and-a-half pounds of treacle" stopped me dead in my tracks.) Apparently, the cake is "better after a week", so I'm holding onto a piece to try again in a few days.

Last night, e. brought over a flan and, in the absence of bunj, I felt honour-bound to eat his portion. It's difficult going through life with such a developed sense of fraternal duty, but somehow I manage.

Rare bit of Welsh, dissected

Mae hi'n ffodus aeth lhn a prilicla gyda fi ran o ffordd adre.
is she[1] PART fortunate go-3S-PRET[2] lhn and prilicla with me part from way home.

Beth o'r tro o leia doedd ddim yn flinderus.

what from the turn from least NEG-be-3S-PRET PART wearisome

Notes:
[1] As previously mentioned, the role of dummy subject is filled by feminine hi.

[2]There is no number agreement in third person verbal forms unless the third-person plural subject nhw is present. Thus: Mae lhn a prilicla wedi rhoi lifft i fi. Maen nhw'n haelionus.

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