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Article: Baking in the memories
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- Waikato Times
- Article date:
- July 15, 2009
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When Marita Matchitt was a youngster in Hamilton, her grandmother
always sent her a birthday package from her Te Kaha home, on the
east coast. It came via bus and contained a fresh crayfish,
silverbeet, and a delicious homemade madeira cake.
Marita has baked and tasted countless cakes since, but the old-
fashioned madeira is still her favourite: "It's the memories," she
says, thinking back to those days, describing a big, rich cake made
with her grandmother's duck eggs.
Marita's grandmother is now aged 103, and she and others among
Marita's forebears have fostered her love of baking, and long career
in the kitchen.
Marita trained as a chef about 30 years ago in Hamilton, at the
then ...