Cajungal
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D'oh!
Demographics: Cake vs Pie
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I don't know, not do I care, where that "tradition" of cake to the face started, but it has always struck me as demeaning to the person that you just married. My wife agrees with me on this, and it's not something that we did at our wedding.
they're both so.. delicious!!
This was such a hard decision!! I went with pie since I can eat more pie than cake, unless it's a sweet tooth kind of day where I could eat an entire cake on my own. NOM
Well, it's a pretty split issue any way you slice it.
The pun was a piece of cake, of course.
Another proponent of cake: it led to the creation of cupcakes, which are first recorded in a recipe from 1796.
You certainly don't hear about cup pies, now do you?
You certainly don't hear about cup pies, now do you?
I voted cake long ago, but to be fair, those would be called "tarts". Good, but messier than cupcakes.
Cajungal
Staff member
Hand pies are easier, and they have a sweet, wholesome look to them. AND hand pies can be sweet or savory.
figmentPez
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What is "baker's cream"?
Cajungal
Staff member
Date a baker, and you'll find out.
Since I have no idea what the actual English name is, I'll give a recipe.
1 l of (full) milk
50 gr of flour
30 gr of maizena
8 egg yolks
250 gr of white sugar
1 stick of vanilla
2 dl of cream (full)
Mix 1 dl of milk, the flour, maizena, the egg yolks and 50 gr of sugar to a paste
Stirring, boil the remainder of the milk, 200 gr of sugar and the vanilla. Let it simmer for a while so the vanilla can give off its taste.
Pour the hot milk-sugar mix on the cold sludge while stirring, keep stirring while the whole's on the stove until it thickens.
Let it boil through for a while, than allow it to cool while stirring.
It's a fairly basic part of a lot of typical Beglian pastry - filling or lower layers. It can be used both warm and cold.
If made properly, it's too thick to be really useful as edible lube, sorry. Bit sticky, too.
of course, feel free to experiment; just be sure to provide photographic evidence.
Vanilla....Bean? Seriously? You guys are aware they're not beans, right?
Also, 1/4c, 1qt (which is technically a bit too much
), 7/8ths...Boy you* make things easier *generalized "you" as "people who use odd measurements", not you, the Guerilla Tutor. I'm sure you actually did make things easier for those weird-counting folk in backwards countries, who haven't quite mastered the decimal system yet**
**I'm joking, I don't honestly care about metric vs imperial, it's something to poke fun at the Anglosaxons. Chill.
...huh. I thought a gallon was 4.28 liters, but apparently it's 3.78? Oh well.
Yeah, it's always been annoying figuring out my fuel costs whenever I go to Canada. I can do most length measurements in my head (cm, mm, m <--> inches, feet; km <--> miles) but volume measurements are more annoying. To be fair, I still have to think a bit even when going from, for instance, tablespoons to gallons, so volumes aren't my forte anyway. Though having dealt with a pool this year has forced me to practice that bit.
"Yes, Gideon, you could empty the pool with a spoon, but it'll take you 1.5 million spoonfulls..."