I forgot the cake, earlier. :)

[kyrielle]

If I'm going to wish Dad a happy birthday, then I ought to wish for the cake, too - another family tradition. "Angel food cake with grease". I was at least ten, maybe even in my teens, before I realized no one else knew what I meant when I said that, no one else called it "grease". I have no idea why we did, where the term came from! It was angel food cake with a kind of thick sweet creamy topping, and, until the diabetes changed his diet, another staple of Dad's birthday. I thought it was Bavarian cream for a while, but I think that was wrong; it doesn't quite match. No clue what it actually was....