Ms. Sooty Copper Goes Butterflying!

drawing by ana traina

Ms. Sooty Copper never intended to go to Lady Flora Bedds’ garden tea party last Sunday, it was way too sunny for that sort of thing, so instead she decided it would be a lot more entertaining to practice her fine art of butterflying. It was all the rage in Yorkville Gardenshire. So off she went in her spanking new periwinkle-blue butterfly suit, flitting, fluttering and floating about, hoping to meet new and interesting acquaintances. She met so many diverting fauna and flora along the way that she completely forgot all about the time.  It was already Bluejay Souffle Tuesday before she remembered that she did not bake a thing for Nastia Grooper’s dinner party this very eventide!  She did not have a single recipe to try, she had already served all of her exemplary treats. She could absolutely not go to Nastia’s empty handed, nor was she going to let Nastia titivate herself by telling titillating tales to other lemony, or dare I say limey, ladies about herself.  Ms. Sooty Copper started to fret so much that she began to lose altitude when she heard a sweet echo of a nearby Sunflower, named Helian Thoideae, it whispered, “Honey and Sunflowers make a bread that is slightly sweet and totally hard to beat! “  

Sunflower Bread Recipe

1/4 cup honey, 

1/4 cup butter, softened

2 eggs, beaten

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon baking powder

1-1/4 cup ground sunflower seeds, shelled

1 cup milk

1/2 cup whole sunflower seeds

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Now Beat honey and butter together, add eggs, beating well. Combine flour, baking powder, salt and ground seeds. Add honey and butter mixture. Add milk, mixing well. Fold whole sunflower seeds into dough. Put into greased loaf pan and bake for 1 hour and then you’re ready to go.

Ms. Sooty Copper thanked the dear Sunflower, for the recipe and the seeds, then she fluttered home in a flurry as she had so little time left, she really had to hurry!