...and snowed...

I just read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, so on our third snow day of the year, I did my best impersonation of Ma, by boiling sugar and molasses and giving the resulting goop and a pan of snow to the girls.

When the girls dribbled the molasses goop over the snow, it hardened into "candy" which the girls liked to eat well enough.

Frances made a candy "F."

She was a tad pleased with herself.

It was a great activity, really - literary, seasonal, gastronomic and brief, a winning combination.