Le gâteau de Suzanne

Suzanne was actually my great aunt, but I think her cakes alone were enough to earn her the title of Grand-Mère! she always used to say it was the quality of the farm eggs that made them taste so good – the yolks were a deep orange colour – and they gave her cake such lightness and flavour. My father loved going to Grand-Mère’s. The first thing he did when he got there was look for the cakes. Grand-Mère liked to hide them so she could tease us that she hadn’t made any, but we always