adventures in baking

[mizkit]

Some of you will recall I started a Great Cake Baking Project a while back, intending to bake one of each of the cakes in my 80 year old cookbook. The very first cake, an angel food cake, turned out somethig more of an angel food doughnut: it tasted fine right out of the oven, but I’d overwhipped it and it was flat.

Well, having all these leftover

Comments

[st_rev]

Try banana puree instead of custard.

Is your cookbook in alphabetical order?

[amberley]

What if you put the chocolate mousse ON the angel food cupcake? Do two wrongs make a right?

Perhaps you should do each recipe in your cookbook once, then circle back to the beginning and make a second attempt on everything that didn't turn out right the first time, and reiterate, until at last the most difficult of endeavours is but a trifle in your hands, or else everyone you know is too large to fit through Irish doorways.

Has baking technology changed any in 80 years? Are there things modern science has revealed that were a mystery to the ancients?

Re: Is your cookbook in alphabetical order?

[mizkit]

...both the cake and mousse have been thrown out now, but possibly two wrongs wouldn't have exactly made a right but could have been appealing together while both fresh. Too late now