Apple cake and starlings

With the apples from my mother's garden I made an apple cake.



I used the recipe from the cookbook of the 'Boerinnenbond', the Flemish Farmer's Wives' Association. This was the cooking bible of many generations of Flemish women and men. My grandmother gave me her copy when I was a kid.
It's a very basic recipe so I don't bother copying it here.


While I was setting up my blog yesterday, a flock of starlings came for a rest on the crane outside my window.