The high nineties is hot. Add the dry wind and it is very hot. All the animals have different coping mechanisms. The Matriarchs dog has decided that he would rather ride than walk. So he sits like a mini king in his chariot. And the Tall Teenager pedals him all over the county on their travels. 
The Big Baby Bobby cools his heels. 
When she is not in the shade of the barn, Mama stands in Queenie’s shadow. As Queenie moves across the field grazing so does Mama. Keeping her head in Queenie’s shadow the whole time. Moving in tandem. The cow lopes along with lazy strides. The Sheep trots quickly to catch up. Hairy MacLairy does this with Daisy too. The cows are like great big trees to the sheep. Mobile shade. It is quite funny to watch. 
The Plonkers need water and mud. They have no cooling mechanism. They suffer in the heat especially when they get this big. So they stand in the sprinkler. Then wallow in the mud. 
Off they go on another jaunt. Bye Bye Joey. 
Good morning. Yesterday I baked the original butter cake with the home made butter, eggs and cream from the farmy. I was interested to see how it turned out with such creamy fresh butter. So I used the most simple recipe I have so I could taste clearly what was happening. And it turned out very well. It was light and lovely.
I have been making this cake for as long as I can remember so the recipe lives in my head which is not always the most secure place to be.
Mama’s Butter Cake
- cream 4oz room temperature butter
- and 1 cup sugar
- add 2 room temperature eggs one at a time
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- alternate 2 cups of flour mixed with 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- with 1/2 cup of cream or milk or cultured buttermilk, though mine is still working at becoming buttermilk
Cook at 350 for about 45 minutes
The Lanky Teenager and his grandmothers dog have hollow legs, so it is almost gone.
I remember moaning to my own children when they were younger. ‘It is pointless me baking cakes, all you do is eat them!” Then thinking about what I had just said. Baking takes effort though and then kids descend like a horde and it is all gone in minutes. This is why this cake is popular. It is very fast to make. And even faster to eat.
It is dawning clear and hot again. So I had better get busy early. Have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
80 responses to “The Heat is On for Mama’s Butter Cake”
Lovely recipe, would be perfect with your homemade butter and homegrown eggs! I wish someone would peddle me around in a rickshaw all day long.. 😉
It’s hot here too. I’m thinking I could almost bake that cake outside on my patio right now although just as I type this I notice the kitties would argue that point since they are currently baking on the flagstones and appear to be loving it.
That cake looks wonderful, although my mind wants it with a nice Merlot. My mind is quite the sophisticate.
I love that you can use both kinds of milk, and more so that yours is turning from milk to buttermilk!
Your lemon honey lavender pound cake was marvelous. The grandkids are coming to visit in a few weeks and I was thinking the lavender might be too “strange” for them to try. They are plain Jane burgers and fries typical small kid eaters. I think this cake would be perfect — with berries.
The dog has the right idea on these hot days. 🙂 Your cake looks (and sounds) delicious! Love that pretty blue plate, too.
I love your inventiveness with the posts, and the theme of this one: keeping cool. Mama and Daisy, the mobile shade, is so funny. The cake looks so light and fluffy and I guess you have to keep your cool when you see it disappearing so fast, before you’ve had time to enjoy its presence.
A beautiful cake recipe – think this is very similar to the standard one my grandmother used to make! Love the shots of the animals keeping cool, especially the matriarch´s dog 🙂
Double yum! Some days I wish I had me a mobile shade cow to hide behind 😉
Happy critters!
My 12 year old is having two boys over to spend the night. I asked him what he’d like me to serve them for dinner. His request was “those tube shaped noodles with
Alfredo sauce”. Maybe I should make this cake to go with it and we could all fall into a white-food-coma after.
LOL @ the Doggie – looks like Queen Elizabeth!! That sheepie is quite clever, following his moving shadow!! Lovely looking cake!
Uh oh, our dogs better not see that. I can hear them already. Oh and to have a dry heat!
Love that cake simple yet I know that would taste delicious specially when freshly baked and extra melting butter on top. MMMMmmmmm
I’ve never heard of a butter cake before! This looks fantastic! I can’t wait until the fall when I can turn on the oven again and bake!