Re: [lace-chat] Sponge Cake Recipe
In some US supermarkets you can get Bird's Custard powder - it's yellow in colour and consists mainly of cornflour (cornstarch ) I believe. Mine (which I've just dropped and showered the kitchen) has a label of calories etc stuck over the ingredients and it won't come off. Going to clear up the mess!! Sue Babbs - Original Message - From: Susan Reishus elationrelat...@yahoo.com To: Lace Chat lace-c...@dont.panix.com; David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Sponge Cake Recipe What is custard powder? Sometimes in the US we add pudding mix which is a product you add milk t and either it sets cold, or you cook it to make pudding. (Jello is the common brand here). This is all I can think of? Susan Reishus --- On Fri, 7/31/09, David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au wrote: From: David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au Subject: [lace-chat] Sponge Cake Recipe To: lace-c...@dont.panix.com Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 7:29 AM Dear Friends, Right now I'm pigging out on a huge slice of the most magnificent sponge cake and thought some of you might enjoy it too. So here's my fail safe recipe. David in Ballarat Feather Sponge This is double quantity:- Ingredients - 8 tbs cornflour - 4 tbs custard powder - 1 tsp Cream of Tartar - ½ tsp Soda Bicarb - 4 eggs - 8 tbs caster sugar - 1 tsp vanilla essence Method - Sift together 3 times all dry ingredients except sugar - Separate egg yokes from whites and whip whites till stiff peaks form - Add caster sugar 1 tbs at a time - Add yokes 1 at a time - Add vanilla essence - Fold in dry ingredients Bake - Bake at 180 C for 30 minutes. If making half quantity bake for 22 minutes. - Let cool and then slice in 2 and fill with whipped cream and strawberry jam. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Sponge Cake Recipe
Don't have any Bird's Custard in the cupboard at the moment, and I only found one web site which listed the ingredients: Cornstarch (cornflour in the UK), milk solids, glucose solids, vegetable fat, sugar, flavours, salt, potassium phosphate, emulsifier, free-flowing agent, colorants including Tartrazine and acidifying agent. The site also says that whatever the brand of custard powder, the ingredients are very similar to a North American Vanilla Pudding Mix. Alfred Bird invented Bird's custard powder because his wife was allergic to eggs and couldn't eat proper custard (also known as creme anglaise in posh restaurants) Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Rhubarb cake
Every spring when the rhubarb is plentiful I have to make this easy cake: 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup butter or margerine 1 egg 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 3/4 cups raw rhubarb diced small Mix ingredients together in the order given, and pour batter into 9 x 12 greased pan. Topping: 1/3 cup white sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1 cup coconut 2 tablespoons butter melted nuts optional Combine ingredients and sprinkle over batter. Bake at 325 F for 40 minutes Even without the topping, it's wonderful. I put the nuts in the batter. And it keeps well, too! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] Rhubarb cake
Oh THANKYOU!!! I have my rhubarb just coming up and my brain goes towards what to do with it!! Cearbhael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linda Bill Mitchell Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:09 AM To: lace-chat@arachne.com Subject: [lace-chat] Rhubarb cake Every spring when the rhubarb is plentiful I have to make this easy cake: 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup butter or margerine 1 egg 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 3/4 cups raw rhubarb diced small Mix ingredients together in the order given, and pour batter into 9 x 12 greased pan. Topping: 1/3 cup white sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1 cup coconut 2 tablespoons butter melted nuts optional Combine ingredients and sprinkle over batter. Bake at 325 F for 40 minutes Even without the topping, it's wonderful. I put the nuts in the batter. And it keeps well, too! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Rhubarb cake
On 4/26/07 12:09 PM, Linda Bill Mitchell wrote: My favorite way to use rhubarb in a sort of lemonade: cut up the stalks, boil them, strain out the fibers, dilute and sweeten to taste. We called it rhubarb juice; I think the current term would be rhubarb juice cocktail. (Alas, I'm no longer allowed sugar, and saccharine etc. just won't do.) If you like a squeeze of lemon in your ice water, try putting an inch of rhubarb into a blender with a pint of water, strain. Or steam rhubarb with as little water as possible, add the juice to seltzer, ice water, etc. (Never tried it as a substitute for lemon in honey-and-lemon cough syrup. Should do at least as well as vinegar! But I don't get colds in rhubarb season.) (knock wood) Thin-sliced rhubarb is good in any dish that benefits from a drop of lemon juice or vinegar. Particularly beef stew. I do hope my plants survived our normal-on-the-average winter. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Rhubarb cake
On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:09, Linda Bill Mitchell wrote: Every spring when the rhubarb is plentiful I have to make this easy cake: Once I got over the rhubarb-envy, I read the recipe, and... Topping: 1/3 cup white sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1 cup coconut Try (roasted and broken up/shredded/crushed) almonds instead of coconut. Yum. We didn't have coconut back in Poland, but we could get almonds. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] The Cake
The cake Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love thisespecially all of the ladies who bake for church events. Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church ladies' group bake sale in Tuscaloosa, but she forgot to do it until the last minute. She remembered it the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets she found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing and helping her son Bryan pack up for Scout camp. But when Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. She said, Oh dear, there's no time to bake another cake. This was so important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church, And in her new community of new friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake. Alice found it in the bathroom -- a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and then covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect! Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the minute it opened at 9:30, and to buy that cake and bring it home. When the daughter arrived at the sale, she found that the attractive perfect cake had already been sold. Amanda grabbed her cell phone and called her Mom. Alice was horrified. She was beside herself. Everyone would know; What would they think? Oh, my she wailed! She would be ostracized, talked about, ridiculed. All night Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing their fingers at her and talking about her behind her back. The next day, Alice promised herself that she would try not to think about the cake and she would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a friend and try to have a good time. Alice did not really want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at the fact that Alice was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa, but having already RSVP'd she could not think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South and to Alice's horror, the CAKE in question was presented for dessert. Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake, she started, out of her chair to rush to tell her hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, What a beautiful cake! Alice, who was still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess ,who was a prominent church member, say Thank you, I baked it myself. Alice smiled and thought , GOD IS GOOD! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Cream cake?
Hi All -- I'm hoping maybe someone can help me with this When I was in the Alte Museum in Munich, I had a piece of some kind of cream cake in their garden cafe. It was so good, I want to make one, if I can, but I don't know what it was! I know it's not fair to ask someone else to tell me what it was I ate, but -- that's what I'm asking! :)) It was a soft white or yellow cake with a cream filling -- not whipped cream -- no strong flavors of liqueur or fruit or anything -- it might have had a hint of almond or lemon or something like that in the filling, but it was very subtle...a mild flavor, very nice. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks in anticipation for any suggestions and/or recipes Best regards, Ricki Utah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] patty-cake and hand clapping games etc
Missed the original message on this - maybe patty cake should be pat a cake, pat a cake, bakers man and you can get the words at http://www.peanutsfan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cake.html and several other places - I did a search of cake bakers man Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] patty-cake and hand clapping games etc
I immediately thought of the book by Iona Opie. Looking on Amazon.com.uk found the title The Lore and Language of School Children originally published in 1959. I also found 'Play Today in the Primary School Playground: Life, Learning and Creativity' which has a forward by Iona Opie Can't say what either book is like - may be too scholarly. I'm sure others in the group will be able to comment. I'll have a word with my mother who was a primary school teacher - might know some other authors to check up on. Peter To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] wedding cake
I wish to thank everyone who sent me information regarding taking food into Australia. I don't have much spare time right now, I have to look after my two youngest grand children tomorrow they are 6 months and 3 years old. Plus doing jobs for my family before next Wednesday. The travel agent has been contacted, we have been told to pack the cake ourselves, then declare the package at the airport, it will then be put into the hold. We just have to keep our fingers cross when they reach Australia. Jean in Newbury, where it is sunny, we even had rain yesterday. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] wedding cake
I concur with Ruth. When I got married in 1994, over here in Denver, I wanted to send home cake with my folks to close friends in Oz, who did not make it over for the wedding. I had a special cake made (tradition fruitcake with marzipan and royal icing) just for this purpose. Mum and Dad checked with customs in Oz in advance of coming over, and there didn't seem to be a problem (this was 1994, remember). When they went home, they had it in their suitcase I believe, and declared it. They had no problems. As it was, the cake was sealed in the marzipan to the cake board, so I think that helped. Cheers, Helen, Aussie enjoying a fabulous Fall in Denver - record high temps again today and tomorrow! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
