Home again (a recipe)

Yes, I am home in San Francisco again for the whole summer. I would like to tell you about the end of the semester, but right now I want most to share a recipe with you, because I am just so happy to be in a real house again where, among other things, I have a lovely, clean, well-stocked kitchen.




Magdalenas are these tasty dense little tea cake things that look like cupcakes but are not cupcakes. This recipe is from Herr Bambola, also known as @Vagrant.

I halved this recipe and got twelve.

1 egg
1 1/2 cups caster sugar
1 cup milk
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
3 cups plain flour
1 tsp bakng powder
powdered sugar, to dust

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Beat egg and sugar together, then stir in all the rest of the ingredients except for the powdered sugar.

Fill the papers two-thirds of the way full and bake for about 20 minutes. You can either bake them in the papers on a baking tray, in which case they are supposed to get golden, or in a muffin tin. I did the latter; they stayed pale and I used the toothpick test.

Once cool, dust with powdered sugar.