Feast of the Day, 20 April 2012

I didn't post this yesterday, but I read it then. It's from a book called Miss Howard's School, by the improbably-named Glance Gaylord. This book is set in a rural community, so the kids at school have comparatively less money than in most of the books I read. So this feast sounds less lavish, but given the standards of the community, it really is a feast: "The cup-custards were so delicious, and the pound-cake second to none! and the peaches and biscuit and butter were praised even higher; and Aunt Hetty’s tea, being made by one so fond of tea, was of course faultless. The little girls liked it all the better for drinking it out of little china cups with gold rims, the relics of Aunt Hetty’s younger days." I like this one, too, because the author takes pains to assure the reader that this is very good food, not just a huge quantity.