Ana is reading her way through The Secret Garden right now.

[conuly]

I made the choice to read it to them (still doing that, a bit more slowly than Ana) even though it's a. classist b. a bit full of casual racism and c. full of dialect, because I figure that, as it's a classic of children's literature, they're probably going to be exposed to it sooner or later and I might as well be there to tone it down.

Also, it gave me an excuse to look up Yorkshire dialects on Youtube, and that's always fun.

I'm kinda annoyed by this because if she hadn't been reading The Secret Garden I would've thrust A Tale of Time City into her hands. I've just re-found the book on my shelf.

Gosh, I love that book. If you'll only read one fantastical story about British evacuees during the Second World War, make it this one. Narnia, Schmarnia. I wake up nights drooling over thoughts of Sam's butter pie. If only somebody could recreate that so I could eat it in real life. TVTropes compares it to lava cake, but those are generally chocolate, aren't they? Butter pie is, um, buttery.

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I admit it, this is a not-so-veiled request for baking help. H E L P ! If anybody has any idea where to start there, I'll be eternally grateful. I'm sure it'd be just the thing for a sick Ana.

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[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Hot on the inside, or cold on the inside? I'm assuming one or the other is a typo.

[conuly]

Cold on the outside!

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. The reverse Baked Alaska trick. I've never done this myself, but it was one of the "magic" things done when microwaves first became popular. You have a filling that's very liquid and sugary on the inside, so it absorbs microwave energy much more than the outside - the version I've heard of involved jam, and if you stabbed it, you might get a spurt of boiling jam, while the icecream on the outside stayed solid.
Sorry, I don't have a recipe, and it'll depend on your microwave anyway, but that's the idea.