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COURTING, DATING, GOING OUT, OR ...?  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
9/10/2013 10:46 am
COURTING, DATING, GOING OUT, OR ...?
Below is Willem Buytewech’s early seventeenth century painting, Dignified Couples Courting.



When much younger in my twenties, my grandparents often asked me whether I was dating or courting. I always answered in the negative as dating and especially courting always sounded serious and old-fashioned. I always said either I was going out with someone. It always sounded very casual to my grandparents (and sometimes my parents). I suspect the phrase, going out, may sound old-fashioned to younger people now.

But I guess my grandparents and I were more-or-less talking about the same thing – romance!

What phrase do you use for courting, dating or going out?
How romantic are you?
What’s the most romantic gesture that you have shown someone?
What’s the most romantic gesture that someone has shown you?

In Lancashire in North West England, there was a tradition of a fiancée baking a courtship cake for her fiancé as a token of her love (and, I guess, proof of her cooking skills). When the engaged Prince William and Kate Middleton before their wedding visited Lancashire, they were presented with a courtship cake. The Lancashire Courting Cake is a bit like a Victorian sponge cake but with a shortbread base – please see inside for a photograph and recipe of such a cake.

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
9/10/2013 11:01 am

 Here’s a photograph and a recipe for a Lancashire courting cake:

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Normally a courtship cake is made with cream and strawberries, but this recipe, courtesy of caketakesthebiscuit, is for a cake with mascarpone and raspberries.

“Use 8 inch cake tins
200g softened butter
200g caster sugar
4 medium free range eggs (beaten)
200g self raising flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking powder

For the filling, use a 250g tub of mascarpone or a smaller tub if you can find one
50g of icing sugar and some to dust the top of the cake
175g raspberries
1tsp vanilla extract
zest of one lemon

Treat this as a Victoria sponge cake with a different filling. Cream the sugar and butter, add the eggs one by one, then fold in the sieved flour and baking powder plus pinch of salt. Combine it as little as possible so the sponge turns out nice and light. Bake for 25-30mins in the oven – Fan 160/Oven 180/Gas mark 4. Once baked, let the cake cool. In the meantime, mix the mascarpone with the icing sugar and lemon zest. Spread a generous layer of mascarpone on the top of one of the cake halves. Place the raspberries all over. Then stack the second cake half on top. Finish off with a dusting of icing sugar!”


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
9/12/2013 12:19 pm
    Quoting Tantricorgasms3:
    The cake look delicious!

    I use going out for something very casual, like a friend and dating for romantic encounters.

    I think I'm romantic and do lots of little things, like leaving love notes where she'll find them.

    The most romantic gesture? I would have to say it was when I sacrificed my dream of being in a band for my love.

    I can't recall. Oh, that's kind of sad, isn't it? Oh well, I don't date romantic women, I guess.
You left a band for love, do you regret that?


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