“Let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here…” (Nigella’s Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake with Sea Holly) In Elizabethan times the candied roots of Sea Holly (Eringoe) were once a popular delicacy and considered an aphrodisiac~ Shakespeare even makes reference to them in them in “The Merry Wives of Windsor:” "Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow Eringoes; let there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here…“ It was fun to make this cake with my partner and weather the stormy "tempest of provocation" that is our cooking relationship (we clash in the kitchen~ "alas my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously"!!) and so we sought refuge/shelter in this deliciously decadent cake afterwards... garnished with Eringoe/Sea Holly.
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