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who would like a slice, what are ya'all making?

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

an early grave

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I made penne with tomato and chunky veggie sauce with portugese sausage. It was v. good.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmm, sausage.
I made jerk chicken with refried rice.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I made this baby spinach salad with tomatoes and feta cheese.

― Nicole (Nicole), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sanfords.net/Spots_free_graphics/Food/food53.gif

That cake's been in the oven too long!

― tastyman, Sunday, 23 February 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I just had a lamb chop with a baked potato. K-yum.

Two cake threads, ramen noodles, corndogs, and tortilla chips, right up under New Answers -- ILE must be pretty hungry!

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 23 February 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I still need my birthday cake! Sheeeeeit.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

We really need a thread on those hideous megamart bakery cakes you find at Costco or K-mart... like those pastel frosted cakes shaped like popular fast food items or what have you.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I made cake with some little boys in a class-type thing this morning. One of the other people who was teaching a group of girls, the one who planned out the thing, didn't bother telling me how much the recipe made (two servings) and then she was annoyed that I made too much. And also she was annoyed with my boys for running around a lot. But that's okay, because in the end they got more cake than all the other kids so I feel like they were compensated for our incompetence and irritability.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 23 February 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I made a pasta casserole for a choir dinner, but there were 5 or 10 other nearly identical ones so there are a lot of leftovers.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 23 February 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a thing...wait, not true, I am about to make fresh squeezed o.j. from Stehly Ranch oranges. Mm are they good. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 February 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

After I've cleaned up I am going to make creamed potatoes and a nice quiche/flan thing for dinner, with roast capsicum, spinach and mushroom, baked with loads of cheese on top. It'll last me for 2 or 3 lunches, so its a handy thing to make when you're broke!

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmm cake. Im to full from the sunday afternoon tv picnic to eat a thing.

― ducklingmonster, Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

. . .a fool of myself.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

my mum made some brownies yesterday. v nice!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 February 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

What measurements/oven temp do you use for plain sponge cakes? Little ones rather than one big one. I can only find recipes on the internet for much fancier cakes.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this wouldbe a Brasseye thread.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Are we talking fairy cakes? 15 minutes or so in a Gas Mk 4 oven (350F, errr 180ishC?) until they're golden on top. Make sure to sieve yr flour for lightness of the finished result!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Liz. Can you remember how much flour/butter/eggs etc.? I stuck on that too.

Are they called fairy cakes, the little plain ones, or are they only fairy when you stick wings to them with butter icing?

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmm. liz cake. mmmmm.

are fairy cakes just english cupcakes?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a cupcake? Maybe that is why I can't find what I want on google, if Americans are calling them something different.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Cathy - go to the bookshop and check out how to be a domestic goddess by Nigella Lawson - she is V good for things like this, and explains stuff too. Delia is also good at basics.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Massive piss-take ahoy, but I actually have a (hilarious, 1940s) cookbook in my desk drawer:

6 oz plain flour
4 oz butter, or butter and lard, or whatever the heck you fancy fat-wise
3 oz sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp baking powder (or use self-raising quantity above)
pinch of salt
rind of one lemon (I'd omit this unless you've a lemon handy)

Cream the crap out of the fat and sugar, beat in the eggs, then add the flour, baking powder & salt. Add the finely-grated lemon rind and mix lightly. Bung in yr paper cases (pref. placed in muffin tin slots) and bake! Makes about 12 according to recipe, but I reckon you'll get a couple more out of it.

They're butterfly cakes if you do the middle-scoopy inside-out thing, but it's a bit too much fanny dangle for me to be honest. Fairy cakes become Queen cakes if they have raisins in - the nomenclature is v confusing.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone want a recipe for stewed tripe?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just had some rather lovely cake to celebrate the launch of a new edition of our top selling dermatology book. The cake was in the shape of a giant human foot and it was bright green.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've a Pig's Feet recipe here if you're interested. Doesn't mention green food colouring though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Porkpie, I will do that soon. But I often find cookery books' idea of "basics" is not really as basic as my idea.

Thank you, Liz, that is *exactly* what I was after. XXXXXXX

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz: YES PLEASE! Tripe first.

― my full sodding name (hello chickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

cathy, in america cupcakes are individual cakes. bigger than the tiny almond-flavored cakes they call fairy cakes in sainsburys (which seem more like petit fours to me), but still small. like the size of a muffin, but made of cake, with a flat top, and usually plain butter icing.

i love cake.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I had no idea there were so many different kinds of little cake. Thanks for calrifying, colette.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Stuffed hearts! Boiled sheep's head! Man alive, I need to do an offal entry on Pumpkin Publog. Oh god, there's Calf's Foot Jelly as well.

Glad to be of service, Cathy.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ewww. liz, i don't think you should bring that stuff to FAPs. stick to cake, please!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

*sigh* I guess you're right. I do prefer cake, and besides, I shouldn't think you can buy sheeps' heads any more anyhow, what with scrapie and BSE and that.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

There is not enough sugar in that cake recipe SURELY!!!??

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

*realises may just have been sweet-toothed freak all this time*

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a friend who worked in the butcher's at Kwik Save, who said people used to come in quite often and ask for half a pig's head. And she had to go into the back and saw a pig's head in half.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The brawn recipe uses half a pig's head - maybe that's what they were making? The recipe starts: Remove the brain, if any, from the head. Eurgh.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaeughhh

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

good stuff that. Are there any middlewhite recipes? Brawn is nummy btw

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

There are three (3!) recipes for brains: fried, braised and stewed.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I like cakes, I don't make them though. If you make cakes, I will eat them.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. maybe i should keep cookbooks in my desk drawers. they seem to provide many minutes of distraction, which i would love today!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

> There is not enough sugar in that cake recipe SURELY!!!??

1940s = rationing. maybe. does the sugar actually do anything other than make it sweet?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

koogs OTM - in the 1940s there was certainly sugar rationing. It lasted until the 1950s IIRC. Parsnip was sometimes used as sugar substitue.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm. I want to make a cake with parsnip now! After all, chocolate courgette cake works a treat. And carrot cake of course.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

cupcake: ihttp://www.a-year-in-kansas.com/photos/2004/Jan/cupcake.jpg

fairy cakes: http://orion.passwall.com/spacefood/5MaySweets/FairyCakes.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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