On Cakes and Communication
Jul. 26th, 2009 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zarhooie_blogathon"Cake batters are unfinished constructions that need ovens to make them presentable. Even if you are following a cake recipe to the t, there's no insurance it will come out the same way it did last time.
Unless you know why a cake should do what the recipes says it will do.
Cakes rise because of chemical reactions. They rise because there are egg whites somewhere in the recipe. A cake that rises evenly has an even "crumb," and will feel, as well as taste, good in one's mouth. Cakes rise because the batter was a perfect emulsion and did not "break." Cakes hate to be 'overmixed' and they especially detest cold anything-- ovens, ingredients, feet, and hearts."
Read the rest of her post here! It is very informative.
"Trying to Communicate is one of the best crack!fics I've ever read. It's a Torchwood fic, of course, and is the origin of the word Turchwad! Go check it out. <3
Second to last one of these: Sponsor Jen!
-Kat
Unless you know why a cake should do what the recipes says it will do.
Cakes rise because of chemical reactions. They rise because there are egg whites somewhere in the recipe. A cake that rises evenly has an even "crumb," and will feel, as well as taste, good in one's mouth. Cakes rise because the batter was a perfect emulsion and did not "break." Cakes hate to be 'overmixed' and they especially detest cold anything-- ovens, ingredients, feet, and hearts."
Read the rest of her post here! It is very informative.
"Trying to Communicate is one of the best crack!fics I've ever read. It's a Torchwood fic, of course, and is the origin of the word Turchwad! Go check it out. <3
Second to last one of these: Sponsor Jen!
-Kat
