Classic cake for the weekend

Having made my Strawberry Jam, I went on to make a Victoria Sandwich.

 I was very careful to make it in time, so that it was cold enough to fill with jam, and be cut ready for when D got back from work.

He says that often I say not, it has to cool, and am just a bit tease with my baking...so maybe this is one of my improvements for this year.  Lets hope it continues!

Just finished another good book by Tracy Chevalier, this one set in France: The Virgin Blue.  Quite apt at this time of religious intolerance, it really portrayed well the conflict between Calvinists and Catholics.