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MADDIE here, with a sweet recipe on a bittersweet day.

My wonderful mother died ten years ago yesterday. Marilyn Flaherty Maxwell Muller was eighty-half-dozen.

She was the one who taught me to sew, to bake - and to love mysteries. Her shelves full of crime fiction were e'er available to me, and I read Agatha Christie, Earle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Conan Doyle, even Poe, from an early age.

Concerning of my history, I'm at the Malice Domestic convention in Due north Bethesda correct now, where tomorrow dark I'll selection up my two-twelvemonth-sometime teapot jubilant Charity's Brunt (my fourth Quaker Midwife Mystery, written as Edith Maxwell) winning the Agatha Laurels for Best Historical Novel. I owe it all to my mother.

Marilyn was also a brilliant seamstress, sewing all of her iii daughters' dress and ballet costumes (for iii or 4 dances each every spring) when we were young.

Edith (Maddie) and her sister Janet in tutus Marilyn sewed.

She also sewed more than one beautiful quilt for each family member in her retirement, plus others for charity projects. Here is a lovely quilt she designed and began for me but wasn't able to stop. I completed the associates and got it machine quilted a few years ago.

Withal, this is a recipe blog, so let'southward talk about Mommy'south sweetness molar and her honey of baking. I can't think a time when I wasn't at her side equally she baked pies, cookies, and cakes. She wasn't an inspired savory cook, although she always put a balanced dinner on the table for our family of six. Simply it was sweets she excelled at.

Subsequently the Ukraine invasion began and Leslie Budewitz mentioned in her blog postal service here a few dining options inspired by that beleaguered nation, I went looking for something to bake. When Google uncovered mention of Ukranians loving desserts with poppyseeds and sour cream, I remembered the poppyseed block my mom used to bake. I searched my recipe box, which sadly didn't include an old 3x5 card with the recipe on it. But that's what sisters are for!

Janet, Barbara, and Edith with Marilyn ii months before she left us, with one of her quilted wall hangings behind.

Sure enough, Janet had the poppyseed cake recipe and emailed it to Barbara and me. I tweaked information technology only past adding some lemon zest in the batter and a lemon glaze on summit.

So, without further ado, I share our mom's poppyseed block recipe. It's easy and tasty and y'all tin can bake it in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who even so need all the help we tin can requite them.

Marilyn's Poppy Seed Cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a bundt or angel food block pan.

Ingredients

Cake:

½ pound (two sticks) butter

1 ½ cup sugar

4 egg yolks

½ pt. sour cream

1 packet poppy seeds

ane tablespoon lemon zest (finally grated lemon peel)

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups unbleached flour

1 tablespoon baking soda

iv egg whites, beaten stiff

Coat:

6 tablespoons butter, melted

iii cups powdered sugar

¼ cup lemon juice  (juice of 2 lemons)

Directions

Cream butter and sugar. Add together yolks and mix well.

Stir in sour cream, poppy seeds, lemon zest, and vanilla.

Stir in flour and blistering soda. Fold in egg whites.

Gently spoon into prepared pan.

Bake for one hour or until toothpick comes out clean. Absurd in pan for ten minutes, and so upend on a cooling rack.

For the glaze, in a microwave-safe bowl, combine melted butter, powdered saccharide, and lemon juice until smooth. Warm for fifteen seconds and whisk to remove any clumps.

Poke holes in the cake with a chopstick. Drizzle the coat all over.

Let glaze to gear up before slicing. Enjoy with a cup of tea or an after-dinner liqueur.

In a belated commemoration of my pandemic-lockdown Agatha Laurels, I'll send one commenter a copy of Clemency'south Burden!

Readers: what's your favorite commemoration block - or a baked skilful your ain mom made?

My most recent release isBatter Off Dead, Country Store Mystery #10, out  now!

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Criminal offense and Mystery Writers of America and also writes accolade-winning short law-breaking fiction. She lives with her beau north of Boston, where she'south currently working on her next mystery when she isn't cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.

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