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Veteran Member wigs@juno.com 1800 posts Joined: Mar 10, 2006 Options |
Posted to Thread #18104 at 8:41 pm on Apr 23, 2010
I was to have a mother who had good "cooking from scratch" skills plus I took cooking in 4-H when I was a kid. It is amazing how much a person is supposed to know that a recipe doesn't necessarily explain.
That reminds me of another time when I took a frosted layer cake into the office, and one of my colleagues asked me for the recipe. (It was for an old Betty Crocker cookbook and was called a Bonnie Butter Cake.) Anyhow, Sandy told me a couple weeks later that she'd made my cake, and it had come out dry, and nobody in her family had liked it. I assumed she'd probably overbaked it, but she insisted that had not happened. After many more inquiries from me, I finally figured out that when the recipe had said to grease & flour the cake pans, she had applied Crisco appropriately, then had dumped flour into both pans and rotated the pans so that flour covered all bottoms & sides, but she HAD NOT tapped the excess flour out of her pans! From what she told me, I guesstimated her cake had at least 1/2 cup of additional AP flour in it! But in her defense, the recipe didn't say to dump out the extra flour after the greasing & flouring procedure was completed. You are just supposed to KNOW you need to do that! |
Other messages in this thread:
- 18104. HELP!! I can't believe I live in Southern Calif. and can't find dutch process cocoa powder!! - cheezz - 10:44pm on 04/21/10 (29)
- Hey cheezz - you should be able to find Droste at Whole Foods and possibly TJ's. [NT] - Meryl - 10:58pm on 04/21/10
- Droste is the one I bought at World Market - no more, though. Just go back from WF - zip. - cheezz - 2:09am on 04/22/10
- A recipe I made called for the Dutch Process Cocoa...I went looking for it at Raley's - KarenNoCA - 11:41pm on 04/21/10
- HUH??!! She is NOT a baker if she says you can use Hershey's - BIG, BIG difference. - cheezz - 2:11am on 04/22/10
- Although Hershey's Special Dark makes an amazing dark chocolate cake. [NT] - Amanda_Pennsylvania - 3:01am on 04/22/10
- That's their Dutch processed cocoa powder. [NT] - Meryl - 3:21am on 04/22/10
- Actually, it's a mixture of natural and Dutched. [NT] [LINK] - Meryl - 3:45am on 04/22/10
- I have to disagree -I prefer Hershey's over both Nestle and Ghirardelli for natural cocoa powder, - Meryl - 3:33am on 04/22/10
- I can't even find the Hershey's Dark... where do you buy El Rey?? [NT] - cheezz - 2:52am on 04/23/10
- oops... never mind - I see your 'El Rey' response below :) [NT] - cheezz - 2:53am on 04/23/10
- WHOA! Shipping rates will kill ya.... they say Sur La Table carries their products... - cheezz - 3:01am on 04/23/10
- The shipping rates are high, but the cocoa powder is unbelievably inexpensive! Also, if you order - Meryl - 3:38am on 04/23/10
- Hey, check Whole Foods for El Rey Cocoa powder - I just read on a blog that someone bought it there, - Meryl - 7:51am on 04/23/10
- I was just at Whole Foods yesterday and they didn't have it (at least not in the baking aisle) [NT] - cheezz - 6:04pm on 04/23/10
- I found some at Howe's market a while back. Don't know if you've got one near you though. - Steve2 in LA - 12:38am on 04/22/10
- Steve, I've never heard of Howe's! Haven't tried Surfas, but that's a good idea. Thanks! [NT] - cheezz - 2:12am on 04/22/10
- Pernigotti at Williams-Sonoma is dutched. - Sandi in Hawaii - 5:15am on 04/22/10
- Try El Rey and you'll never go back! Pernigotti pales compared to it! [NT] - Meryl - 7:30am on 04/22/10
- really? I love the Pernigotti but can't get it here--always a "souvenier" from Hawaii trips. - AngAk - 5:14pm on 04/22/10
- Ang, the only sources I've found for El Rey is their own site or at Chocosphere, which is where I - Meryl - 6:31pm on 04/22/10
- Grammar correction: "are" not "is!" [NT] - Meryl - 6:35pm on 04/22/10
- oh nuts. shipping to Alaska can mean a second mortgage. [NT] - AngAk - 5:08pm on 04/23/10
- I recently purchased some Cacao di Pernigotti and also some Scharffen Berger unsweetened cocoa - wigs - 3:54pm on 04/22/10
- also, the Wilbur Chocolate Co has dutched cocoa at a great price. [NT] - AngAk - 5:12pm on 04/22/10
- Hey wigs, I like Scharffen Berger for natural cocoa. For El Rey, the only sources I've found - Meryl - 6:33pm on 04/22/10
- HA! wigs, It makes you realize how much you *assume* because you're more experienced... - cheezz - 6:07pm on 04/23/10
- You got that right. Teaching a cooking class now & again makes me realize how fortunate - wigs - 8:41pm on 04/23/10
- HA! I could appreciate the grease/flour thing. After all, it does NOT say to dump out the excess *g* [NT] - cheezz - 10:15pm on 04/25/10
- Remidns me once of watching a cooking show with some young kids on. They were in the kitchen - cheezz - 10:18pm on 04/25/10