My favorite natural food shop makes these Whoopie Pies. I especially love the chocolate filling but yesterday’s vegan choice was strawberry. Goodness, it was tasty! I always put them in the refrigerator before eating – somehow it makes them even better.
This particular shop is a bit of a trek, so I have to have an excuse to go there. Happily, I did.
As I said on IG, I prefer to think that because it’s vegan, it’s not fattening. Let me remain in my delusional state, okay?
If you didn’t see the update in yesterday’s comment section, here’s the latest. Reader Michele somehow found out the manufacturer and pattern for this plate. I don’t know how she did it, but I am so, so grateful! It was made by Enoch Wood & Sons and it’s part of their Belzoni series. Belzoni was an Egyptologist and traveler who had an exhibition in London in 1821. The series has various designs depicting “ancient architectural elements with an exotic locale” – this sort of thing was part of the Romantic movement.
It was made in the 1830s! Oh my gosh! What a treasure!
The quote is from an auction site. Here is the link to a black platter in the same pattern as this smaller plate. Once I read Michele’s comment, I started researching like a madwoman! I sure hope we come across more pieces.
Thank you again, Michele, for your stellar detective work!
I was focusing on this coneflower when a big fat bee obligingly landed there.
This may be my favorite of the day lilies on the property. The ruffly edges are too perfect.
Cloudy today and much cooler around these parts.
Did you know that it was sunny and beautiful for every one of the ten days it took to drive across the country? Amazing.
Happy Tuesday.
yay, michele, for having an answer to the mystery!
i hope you will be able to find the remaining pieces of that plate, glue them all together and display it because it is beautiful. and from the 1830s … wow!
glad the weather cooperated for your roadtrip. enjoy that cooler weather. we’re in for some rain tomorrow and i am glad about that after a long stretch of high 90s and 100 degree weather with stinky-high humidity. and, while i like the later sunsets of summer, i say bring on fall’s cooler temperatures!
happy tuesday!
kathy in iowa
Wouldn’t that be wonderful? So far, no new discoveries, but we’ll keep trying.
Good job Michele! What a fun find and the pattern is amazing. I will look on line for it also. I do enjoy finding something and researching it’s history. It’s a bit cloudy today and hopefully cooler. I think I’ll do a little painting this afternoon. Hugs!
I do too. I’m an inveterate researcher, I guess!
Whoo-hoo, Michele! And, Claudia, I just kept thinking of what a happy Welcome Home this turn of events has been for you, finding buried treasure connected with your lovely cottage. It’s been a fun story and I hope you find more pieces so that you can indeed glue it together.
I mean, just think of it: the dish is, what(?), at least 180 years old? It’s fantastic! How could it survive in all the years and years of ‘the elements’ (your severe winters, earth tremors, etc.)…just amazing; SO fun! It’s a museum-worthy find!
So old! A real antique. I’m going to glue the pieces I have together tomorrow.
I hope I do, too!
Kudos to Michele! So, am I to assume there will be more digging? You almost have to, don’t you? That whoopie pie looks delicious. Believe whatever you want about calories…I’m not going to burst your bubble! ;)
There will be more digging. We must!
Oh My Gosh. Dig up the corral!
I’m thinking we will!
I can’t help but think of the person who disposed of the plate pieces. I bet that person didn’t think it would be so interesting 187 years later!
I’m sure they didn’t. Probably an inherited piece, as this house wasn’t built until 1891 – unless there was another house here before this one, and that I don’t know.
Well done Michelle. Very pretty pattern, looks like hard to find and a bit pricey too. It will a real triumph to find a piece intact, but the hunt will be fun. You will be making a beeline for every piece of red transferrer you see . my obsession with Jenny lind pattern started over 30 years ago with one platter…this was before Ebay so a lot of spying in shops for red transferrer by me. Then I discovered green, black, mulberry and blue! I think I cornered the marked on tureens. We always used it for holidays until we had more family than 12. But every year Jenny teapots are used, grandchildren love picking out which colors to use.
Even if we find pieces, I can glue them together. I wonder if I’ll be collecting red transferware in the future?
Hey Claudia!
Keep digging you, Jr archeologist! This is soo cool.
I hope you find more beauties to be sure. I am a china and pottery girl so this is so very pretty to me.
I never knew folks buried trash either; I must have been absent in one of my early American classes.
I love reading your blog and glad you got to go out to CA.
I am laying low in this heat that has hit Carolina and will not let up.
I am like a fish outta water. I need a temp of everyone 40 to about 20 (or colder with correct coats hats and gloves, and I am happy happy happy.
Love,
Katheryn
I didn’t know it until I moved here but it makes sense. No dumps or garbage trucks in those days.
Stay cool, Katheryn!
You have such a wonderful community of followers! What a great help that information was to help solve the mystery. I still want to know the rest of the story, don’t you? Who had it out in the yard, or did it break in the house…… was there a complete set of the dishes…. was there a house there that they lived in, or was it someone just “passing through” perhaps in a covered wagon?? Ahhhh, the stories!
Hope you are enjoying your Tuesday.
I am so curious? Was it inherited? Was it part of a whole set? Did just this one piece break, so that’s why it was buried with the rest of the trash?
I love to see a mystery solved! Yay, Michele! My sister Michele is visiting this week with her hubby. The weekend was lovely, but as of yesterday, the remaining days of the visit will be drizzly and gray. Oh well, welcome to the Northeast. (Love that day lily!)
Gray and drizzly here today, as well. Have fun with your sister!
Wow! 1830’s! A treasure indeed! I imagine it was a much loved piece! You are one lucky lady. You may find many more treasures around your property. The day lily is gorgeous! Enjoy the cooler weather. We are sweltering here in Georgia with temps in the mid-90s.
Sorry about your hot temps. We were in that situation last week.
Claudia what a great find. I know you’re hoping to find the rest of the pieces of this beautiful plate but, I was thinking those little shards could be made into a lovely pendant on a chain. Stay cool. Oregon isn’t as cool as it used to be. My A/C goes on every day!
No, I’m not going to do anything with them but glue what I have together, put it in a safe place and hopefully, find more pieces!
So happy that the mystery is solved. Hope you find more pieces. That Whoopie Pie looks delicious.
Marilyn
Oh my goodness Marilyn! It is.
That little cake looks so good!…You couldn’t tell the Amish here that it is a whoopie pie…things are plain and simple to them…two cookie shape cakes with a gob of icing on between!…Of course I would gladly eat that one no matter what they call it…worth driving for I’d say…love your theory about it being vegan…lol…so glad the mystery is solved!
I have a feeling this whoopee pie tops an Amish whoopee pie, but who knows?
So amazing to find that plate after all this time. Kudos to Michelle for discovering it’s origins. Wish I had that whoopie pie right now. :)
Wish I could send one to you!