Re: [lace] St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

Hello Devon and everyone While I can't offer insights into a lace celebration (though, why not, ale?! sounds a plan)I spent an instructional afternoon today testing the Cattern Cakes recipe found here. Its rising agent is yeast, yes it works as mix-in:

Re: [lace] Re: St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

Ok, so here is my knowledge from when I ran the cook school and had my own home economist. Plus my research into cattern cakes. Use butter. If you can't use butter use a pure sunflower spread that is as near to 70% fat as possible (it says so on the packet). I use, in the UK, PURE (brand)

Re: [lace] St Catherine's Day - Cattern Cakes

Because I had all the ingredients on hand, I just made the Cattern cakes recipe, which is exactly as Phillipa has typed out in her message. My verdict: I weighed everything and then measured it in North American cups. You wind up with roughly 3-¼ cups of dry ingredients that are supposed to be

Re: [lace] Re: St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

This website, http://www.cooksinfo.com/flour, supports the claim that you need to add liquid when making a UK recipe with American flour, and subtract liquid for the reverse. Unfortunately they do not say exactly how much to add/subtract. There is also a helpful table showing how different

Re: [lace] St Catherine's Day - Cattern Cakes

My lace group in Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia has our Christmas get together close to Nov 25th - Catterns Day. Each person contributes some food to share - in Oz we call this "bring a plate" - and also a small gift (to an agreed value) which is put into the lucky dip basket. Some people bring

Re: [lace] Re: St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

I was wondering about whether it was the self rising flour that was the problem. I wonder why you need more water in the US. Perhaps a humidity issue? I do have the recipe in the very pretty book about Cattern Cakes and holidays, so no need to retype it. What about beverages? I see that something

Re: [lace] Re cattern cakes

There's a picture on another webpage:http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/lacemakers-cattern-cakes-english- spiced-sugar-cookies-266901 Note the subtitle.  English spiced sugar cookies.  It's guess that, in a pinch, you might be able to get a package of sugar cookie mix, roll it out and add the

[lace] Re cattern cakes

Hi Devon , if you entercattern cakes / visual into your browser and then find theLavender and Lovage page you will find an easy recipe plus visual pictures . Hope this helps. Shirley in Corio , Oz. shirl200...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com

Re: [lace] Re: St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

I suspect some of the problem in the dryness of the cattern cakes is the difference in flour from the UK to the USA. I often have to add more liquid over here than I did when I made the same recipe in the UK, but you need to know what the consistency should be to get that right. Also I

[lace] Re: St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

Dear Devon, I expect you'll get lots of answers to this question. Just to say I have successfully made Cattern cakes from the recipe in the book "Cattern Cakes and Lace. A Calendar of Feasts" by Julia Jones and Barbara Deer. They were delicious and needed no yeast. My recipe used self

Re: [lace] St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

Hi Devon: Just to say I suggest you *don’t* make the recipe found in the book “Cattern Cakes and Lace”. It sounds good, and I had high hopes for it, but the cookies were astoundingly dry. Maybe there’s a misprint and maybe a professional baker could look at the recipe and find the problem; I

[lace] St. Catherine's Day-Cattern Cakes

The Brooklyn Lace Guild would like to have a riotous debauch on St. Catherine’s Day and have looked to me for guidance about how to plan it. Has anyone ever celebrated St. Catherine’s Day with their lace group and what advice would you offer? I have been researching recipes for Cattern Cakes.

Re: [lace] Lace tells

Maureen, I thought this was a fascinating site. Here's the link http://torch.ox.ac.uk/themes/tellings-reconstructing-repertoire-songs-used-en glish-lace-schools Beth Harpell in dreary New Jersey where it's only 36° > On Nov 1, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Maureen wrote: > >

[lace] Lace tells

Dear All I recently saw an email about lace tells and songs and that someone in Oxford was doing some research but I now can't find it, either in the emails or in the archives. Can anyone remember who commented about it? if so could you let me know please? Regards Maureen In grey Yorkshire