The cake is a lie
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♥Oct. 31st, 2015 // 08:35 pm♥
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This afternoon, I thought I'd try out our new baking oven.
I had a look in Mary Berry's New Aga Cookbook, and then I had a look in Mary Berry's (old) Aga cookbook, and I thought that the tray-bake lemon sponge sounded good, but then I looked again and got confused.
The new book gave 225/225/250 butter/sugar/flour (which made me slightly confused anyway, as the quantities weren't equal, which is just Wrong). The old book had 250/250/275. Ok, close enough to not count.
But the new book said that was for a small Aga tray (double it for a large one), and the old one said it was for a large Aga tray (halve it for a small one). Which was odd. After some debate, (I instinctively prefer the old one, it's much less swanky-looking and has the added bonus of recipes for things like jugged hare and canapés for 70 as well as having been through far more reprints) I went for the small one, which was the right choice.
But then I looked at it after the suggested 25 mins (new: 20 in the old) and it was still very soggy. In the end, it had about 45 mins, and Mike pronounced it to be good, so all was well.
It's very odd, though. Surely the old Aga cookbook, of which we must have about the billionth edition, can't be wrong on which size tray to use? (The trays have not changed size, before anyone suggests it!) Surely they can't both be so wrong about the cooking time? I shall have Mike stick a thermometer in there tomorrow, and check that the new Aga's doing what it ought.
ION, we started taking out the front hedge leylandii. "Started", here, is understood to mean "Mike fiddled with his new chainsaw for half an hour and then chopped down one of them and then it was time to put the animals to bed". Still, with a gap now made the others should go much quicker! Our bonfire pile seems to suddenly be nearly as big now as it was a week ago.... |
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