Crisp

With crisp evenings, leaves turn colour seemingly overnight

While on a walk, you know it's autumn when delightfully warm days fringed with cool nights bring a touch of bright colour to the foliage; when the shadows lengthen to ghostly delight and trees fill with the trill of song birds migrating south; when a forlorn leaf clings to newly barren branches; when the silky tufts of milkweed burst forth from their pod.

 

 

You know it's autumn when the fresh and light tastes of summer are replaced with a longing for a not-too-sweet yet substantial treat; when what seems perfect is fresh dough rising in a cosy kitchen and baking for a three-hour period is where you find your bliss; when after a walk you return home to a slice of warm Cherry Cheese Sweet Bread.

Softening cream cheese and thawing sour cherries

combine on a rolled yeast dough.

Rolled and placed on parchment then into the oven

followed by cooling, glazing, slicing and serving.

 

 

 

 

 

Images D. Sleziak