More baking fun & other irrelevant things
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wiseheartGoodness, has it been almost a week since I last posted? Time flies when you're having fun! I was working on "A Big Fat Torchwood Wedding" like a madwoman to finish it before ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
picowrimo starts today, during which time I wanted to finally finish "Vox Angelica" and "A Visitor from Avalon", but I failed. Dratted story has spawned twice as many chapters as it had originally been supposed to have, and the time just wasn't enough. So I'll probably have to write 3 stories at the same time in Jule. Oh, joy!
On my continuing mission to fatten Mum up a bit, however, I gave the banana cake a try last night. The original recipe is:
60 gr butter or margarine
2 eggs
60 gr sugar
20 gr vanilla flavoured sugar
1/10 l milk (which is really less than I'd have imagined)
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
20 gr baking soda
250 gr white flour
2 bananas (in thin slices)
Stir everything until you get a smooth dough. Pour the dough into a rectangular tin with baking paper/parchment/whatever it's called in English in it. Bake it in a pre-heated oven by 180°C for 45-50 minutes. Take it out of the tin and let it cool down on a grid.
Okay, we hate the taste of baking soda, so I only added half of it, which caused the cake to stay a bit flat, but its yummy nonetheless. Oh, and since our oven heats up pretty fast, it was done in less than 30 minutes.
picowrimo starts today, during which time I wanted to finally finish "Vox Angelica" and "A Visitor from Avalon", but I failed. Dratted story has spawned twice as many chapters as it had originally been supposed to have, and the time just wasn't enough. So I'll probably have to write 3 stories at the same time in Jule. Oh, joy!On my continuing mission to fatten Mum up a bit, however, I gave the banana cake a try last night. The original recipe is:
60 gr butter or margarine
2 eggs
60 gr sugar
20 gr vanilla flavoured sugar
1/10 l milk (which is really less than I'd have imagined)
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
20 gr baking soda
250 gr white flour
2 bananas (in thin slices)
Stir everything until you get a smooth dough. Pour the dough into a rectangular tin with baking paper/parchment/whatever it's called in English in it. Bake it in a pre-heated oven by 180°C for 45-50 minutes. Take it out of the tin and let it cool down on a grid.
Okay, we hate the taste of baking soda, so I only added half of it, which caused the cake to stay a bit flat, but its yummy nonetheless. Oh, and since our oven heats up pretty fast, it was done in less than 30 minutes.
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Date: 2011-07-01 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-07-02 06:29 pm (UTC)Regarding the taste of baking soda, I understand. Do you have access to baking powder? I tried to get a URL for you to look at, but either the Net or my connection is painfully slow today, so I'll just suggest you take a look on Wikipedia. If you're interested and can't get it, let me know, and I'll throw in a tin with my summer package. (Yes, I'm going to try again soon.)
And here's an American-English word for you: instead of cooling on a "grid," I would cool on a "rack," or "baking rack."
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Date: 2011-07-02 09:54 pm (UTC)For me, baking powder, too, has a strange aftertaste. Most people think I'm crazy, but I guess I've inherited my Granny's taste buds. She could detect a gram of baking powder in a whole cake by taste alone.
Thanks for the new words. *hugs*