My 2nd loaf of Trombetta bread turned out just delicious ... yay!!! I compared your “Mom’s” recipe to mine and they are very similar - differences were a tsp more cinnamon in Mom’s, a half cup more sugar & more vanilla. Other than that, the ingredients were the same. I did not add nuts (and/or raisins). The baking instructions were 50-60 min at 350 ... I had to go an extra 15 min over the 60 (did it in 5 min increments) before I got a clean cake tester. Surprisingly, the outside (top, sides, bottom) were not overdone.
I think my yellowing/wilting Trombetta is a little better. No bugs/SVBs that I can see and I think instead of too much water, it was too little. I have to haul my water to the garden so the plants get a specific amount of water. For the squash, I had built up dirt around them when they were small, reinforced with bricks to keep the water from running off. I’m sure the roots are way out into the 6x6 square & I was still watering inside the bricks - silly me. Over the weekend, I soaked the whole 6 x 6 and everything looked a lot perkier & happier. There seem to be a few less yellow leaves on that one Trombetta, too. Looking out the window now, it’s so hot everything is wilting - if it all perks up after the direct sunlight is gone, I’ll be happy.
I'm so glad yours came out perfect and delicious this go round.
I have a gas oven with 3 baking thermometers in it. The thermostat on it has been "off" since I got it new about nine months ago. I have to bake everything longer than recipes state even with adjusting the thermostat to match the actual oven temp. Even though I hate poking a hole in stuff to test, I do now, or try to remember to write the extended bake time down on the recipe.
BTW, I just came in from picking more SVB eggs off the Trombettas. I would think those moth's butts would be tired by now from laying eggs. I keep wondering if I get rid of most of the eggs will I have NO BORERS next year? What is the hatch rate on those eggs? Does every one I miss turn into a plant killing maggot?
I am glad you are giving your plants the extra water, and hope that solves the yellowing wilting problem. I am watering my garden twice a day..I need a giant shadecloth over my backyard.
If there was a website called Trombetta Travails or The Cucuzza Chronicles, I could be a Premier Member. Anyway, the temps here have been in the low to mid nineties which aren’t bad, but with no clouds my Trombettas are doing the wilt thing, too. Yesterday, I put a canopy I devised from wood 2” by 1/4” by 8’, and put designer’s voile over that.
The Trombettas like it so far. So, I will see if it stops the afternoon leaf wilt today.
Meanwhile, the kneehigh hose over the cucuzzi seems to be keeping the bitey bugs off them. I have no idea what is taking nips out of them when I’m not looking, and I’m looking a lot.
I always thought that would was called lathe strips, but I think at Home depot it’s called trellis strips, Anyway, I like it because you can wet it, and it’s very flexible. I also bend it into upside down U shapes, perpendicular to each other, and put it over my tomatoes to hold them up.
My mind is gone..that should be wood, not would re: lathe strips.