Time for some baking.
I have number of family recipes. Today I will present some of the favourites here and any special commentary at the time.
Let's start with the beginning of the debates my maternal grandmother's own Wacky Cake!
While I like a good ole American Pie or even some Cherry Pie or Apple Pie and even some Chocolate Mud Pie...hmmm Chocolate Mud Pie.... Oh right where was I? Yes I recall now while I like Pie I enjoy a good good cake more.
We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries with cake not pie. The children's icon is called Strawberry ShortCAKE not Strawberry ShortPie. The children's rhyme is called Pattie Cake. You look at taking a picture of a hot girl it's called CheeseCAKE. She likes your muscles she calls you BeefCAKE. Fat Tuesday we celebrate with PanCakes then give it up for Lent. What did they find on the way to the American revolution or even during WW1 and WWII why it was Johnny Cakes!
How are they selling this so far? Why like Hot CAKES!
What's the biggest British exported selling cookie? Shortbread cookies also called Short CAKE Cookies.
What's the best selling dessert bread but POUND CAKE.
Here's a Cake recipe for you people.
1.5 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons cocoa
pinch of salt
1 cup white sugar
Mix together in baking dish
make 3 holes
add
1 tablespoon vinegar
6 tablespoons melted margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup cold water
put in 3 holes
stir with fork to mix thoroughly
bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes.
test with a toothpick
let cool on a rack.
more to come....
De mortuis nil nisi bonum: Do not speak ill of the dead
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Time for some baking part one
Time for some baking.
I have number of family recipes. Today I will present some of the favourites here and any special commentary at the time.
Let's start with the beginning.
Eccles Cake recipe
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Pre-heat oven to 220°C (note)
Ingredients:
500g flaky pastry
25g melted butter
Nutmeg
50g candied peel
100g sugar
200g currants
Method:
In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar and butter and cook over a medium heat until melted
Off the heat, add currants, candied peel, nutmeg and allspice
On a lightly-floured surface, roll the pastry thinly and cut into rounds of about 0.5cm thickness and 10cm diameter
Place a small spoonful of filling onto centre of each pastry circle
Dampen the edges of the pastry and draw the edges together over the fruit and pinch to seal
Turn over, then press gently with a rolling pin to flatten the cakes
Flatten and snip a V in the top with scissors. Place on a baking tray
Brush with water and sprinkle with a little extra sugar
Bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes (220°C) or until lightly browned round the edges
Place on a wire rack and allow to cool.
Try not to eat them all at once!
I have number of family recipes. Today I will present some of the favourites here and any special commentary at the time.
Let's start with the beginning.
Eccles Cake recipe
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Pre-heat oven to 220°C (note)
Ingredients:
500g flaky pastry
25g melted butter
Nutmeg
50g candied peel
100g sugar
200g currants
Method:
In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar and butter and cook over a medium heat until melted
Off the heat, add currants, candied peel, nutmeg and allspice
On a lightly-floured surface, roll the pastry thinly and cut into rounds of about 0.5cm thickness and 10cm diameter
Place a small spoonful of filling onto centre of each pastry circle
Dampen the edges of the pastry and draw the edges together over the fruit and pinch to seal
Turn over, then press gently with a rolling pin to flatten the cakes
Flatten and snip a V in the top with scissors. Place on a baking tray
Brush with water and sprinkle with a little extra sugar
Bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes (220°C) or until lightly browned round the edges
Place on a wire rack and allow to cool.
Try not to eat them all at once!
Long ago and far away
Long time to post!
Not for lack of trying my computer suffered a series of failures last year that kept me away.
However in anticiaption I "borrowed" my father's little note book and created a series of posts ready so I can sort of stay in the game.
Here they be.
Not for lack of trying my computer suffered a series of failures last year that kept me away.
However in anticiaption I "borrowed" my father's little note book and created a series of posts ready so I can sort of stay in the game.
Here they be.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
In middle School I wanted to be an Ambulance driver
Okay no time to be real vocal here busy all over the place this 21st of April 2011.
Basically chauffeur extraordinaire David Riches has gone for groceries, comics, got his brother to the doctor, then the pharmacy, then the hospital where the made a seven inch wide six inch incision into his back to deflate a softball sized growth, then to his work to show off his wound, then home where they made arrangements for a nurse to visit him at home to change his bandages & clean his wounds, and clean the house to be presentable for when they come. oh and I have to go back out because today is the last day ice cream is on sale before Easter next w2eek and mum wants to treat Mark over all the time he is missing from work and college and having to recuperate. That's right it looks like another unpaid job for errand boy extraordinaire David riches as he goes forth to fetch what he is told to do.
Good Boy David. Try not to drool on the carpets.
Grrr Woof woof ruff. see you all later.
Basically chauffeur extraordinaire David Riches has gone for groceries, comics, got his brother to the doctor, then the pharmacy, then the hospital where the made a seven inch wide six inch incision into his back to deflate a softball sized growth, then to his work to show off his wound, then home where they made arrangements for a nurse to visit him at home to change his bandages & clean his wounds, and clean the house to be presentable for when they come. oh and I have to go back out because today is the last day ice cream is on sale before Easter next w2eek and mum wants to treat Mark over all the time he is missing from work and college and having to recuperate. That's right it looks like another unpaid job for errand boy extraordinaire David riches as he goes forth to fetch what he is told to do.
Good Boy David. Try not to drool on the carpets.
Grrr Woof woof ruff. see you all later.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
PSP or Toast is popped
So the world is up to for David Riches these days this 13 April 2011? Well it's simple enough I have been off facebook for the past ten days, off e-mail even longer and keeping up with the rest of the world in small tiny bits as a lurker while catching up on backed up downloaded television. Dad had another eye appointment this past week and while traffic was slow going there it was quick getting back and at no time was anyone late for anything. He had a relatively good report except that Dad has to go back in two weeks and this is what upsets Mum he may need botox to keep the extra skin around his eyelids from closing off his tear ducts. Mum thinks botox is only for cosmetics and costs a fortune not covered by OHIP. Whatever.
Mark has been hard at work especially now that the Garden Center has opened. Also hard at work at college. Though he has had a lot more flex time hours lately for classes and hard hours for the Garden Centre. In between he has been catching up on his DVD collections from his birthday. His old PSP burnt out so he got himself a new one. Unfortunately it would not charge up. So Mark took that back and paid more money to get another that also took his Metal Gear Solid
case. At least this one works so he plays Final Fantasy Crysis Core on it in between DVD collections.
he is on an anti-biotic pill for an absyss on his back that has grown to the size of a softball. It's going to pop any day now. I picture the scene of john Belushi in Animal House where he imitates a zit popping.
Mum has been doing the same old same old reading her daily newspapers, listening to the television news, and eavesdropping on everything else in the household. With her radio on the weekends and the election in full swing her opinions have started to creep up the small exaggeration scale. It hasn't caught up to her yet but I have kept an ear open.
Election coverage this year is really washy. You would think that the leader of the opposition would visit his own riding or the neighbouring riding to show support. When Iggy announced his new party riding celebration he has his riding in Lakeshore West and his launch was in Mississauga which I think was crass. When he had a gathering for Toronto nice that he chose Yonge Dundas Square weird he didn't mention his riding. Borys my own member of parliament got a bulletin out right before the election was called with pictures of him at various events all last year. Oddly I do believe he is still in Ottawa with his family and has done no campaigning locally yet. You would think a member of parliament would run some personal campaign to retain his seat but I have seen nothing of him in months. Now his competition Ted, has been calling with virtual town halls. Nice but no connection makes it look like a future failure and no one wants to support a failure. The NDP candidate has no constituency office and has only sent representatives who keep saying look at the pamphlet.
Not much confidence in this election.
Well that's enough this week speak to you all later.
Mark has been hard at work especially now that the Garden Center has opened. Also hard at work at college. Though he has had a lot more flex time hours lately for classes and hard hours for the Garden Centre. In between he has been catching up on his DVD collections from his birthday. His old PSP burnt out so he got himself a new one. Unfortunately it would not charge up. So Mark took that back and paid more money to get another that also took his Metal Gear Solid
case. At least this one works so he plays Final Fantasy Crysis Core on it in between DVD collections.
he is on an anti-biotic pill for an absyss on his back that has grown to the size of a softball. It's going to pop any day now. I picture the scene of john Belushi in Animal House where he imitates a zit popping.
Mum has been doing the same old same old reading her daily newspapers, listening to the television news, and eavesdropping on everything else in the household. With her radio on the weekends and the election in full swing her opinions have started to creep up the small exaggeration scale. It hasn't caught up to her yet but I have kept an ear open.
Election coverage this year is really washy. You would think that the leader of the opposition would visit his own riding or the neighbouring riding to show support. When Iggy announced his new party riding celebration he has his riding in Lakeshore West and his launch was in Mississauga which I think was crass. When he had a gathering for Toronto nice that he chose Yonge Dundas Square weird he didn't mention his riding. Borys my own member of parliament got a bulletin out right before the election was called with pictures of him at various events all last year. Oddly I do believe he is still in Ottawa with his family and has done no campaigning locally yet. You would think a member of parliament would run some personal campaign to retain his seat but I have seen nothing of him in months. Now his competition Ted, has been calling with virtual town halls. Nice but no connection makes it look like a future failure and no one wants to support a failure. The NDP candidate has no constituency office and has only sent representatives who keep saying look at the pamphlet.
Not much confidence in this election.
Well that's enough this week speak to you all later.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Going for a Walk
Here it is 6 April 2011 and on this day in 1830 Joseph Smith and five others founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints which is probably why The Book of Mormon is the number one musical on Broadway. So what have I been up to in the past week? Not much.
Well not much does seem to cover a lot like some quick grocery shopping and a quick run downtown to the first annual Slut Walk of Toronto. Now a week and some ago there was an article in the newspaper that said this lady from York University had heard what a Toronto police officer had told an Osgoode Hall full of potential lawyers that women could help stop rape by not making themselves a target by dressing slutty. So she decided that this betrayed a bias by the Toronto Police and the fact they could not define what was slutty meant their apologies were empty and a demonstration or protest was needed to show the police and people the error of their ways. As a result Toronto got a Slut Walk from Queen's Park to Police HeadQuarters and an expected 100 marchers turned into five thousand supporters on Facebook and one thousand five hundred or more actual marchers.
Now I was aghast by the police saying what they did but all in support of this take back the night type protest. My father when I mentioned this thought it was a sex show. Then he thought it was shameful. Shameful that women would want to dress as sluts. Dad was missing the points. People should be allowed to dress as they want without being judged in any particular way. AQnd if the police or any court tries to blame the victim of a crime as their fault and not realize no one goes out and says rape and beat me. I posed to dear old Dad that what if a possible grand daughter were to dress up as say Lady Gaga or Madonna would that mean she should be raped and to that Dad said no and was there something I wasn't telling him. After that he refused to be goaded into conversation about this and sort of dismissed the SlutWalk when it was brought up. That is until Sunday afternoon when I changed the channel to CP24 and upon seeing the start of the speeches at Queens Park was worried when I told him I needed a lift to the subway as I was on my way there. I said to him that if we don't support this now then what to happen next time someone is assaulted and someone says it's okay they were just nerds. Discrimination is discrimination and we should never allow bias to come into it.
The walk was to say enlightening. Many people had signs and to say the range of clothing being provocative was to say I was expecting a lot of Gucci knock-offs and didn't was something more about the cool wind than the people trying to be deliberate provocative. Many seemed to understand the issues at hand. It would have become a small street party until the police started kettling people off the street to crowd the sidewalk. After that I wandered off like everyone else and did a bit of walk about to Ryerson, Yonge Dundas Square, and Nathan Philips Square. With that I got to see the new Nintendo 3DS in action and while I like it's gimick approach to gameplay I found their lack of info comparing it to the Nintendo DSXLi a reason to leave well enough alone. A nice way to end the day downtown and to seperate myself from just one cause at a time.
Unfortunately it took more than a full day for Dad to sit down and see my photos of the day. Reluctance was the ideal to describe him. I think he finally understood what was at hand when I pointed out that not just the police kettling but that a large part of the crowd was not just young women but their mums and grans.
Some of the things that gets me is while I rushed to place my pics on Facebook no one seemed to notice but the next day when this hit the news the next day everyone seemed to pick up on it without realizing I
a) I was there, and b) they had still missed it.
They weren't thinking of the future just that they finally wanted to support this. The day after it happened. The day after it happened and was no further than page three of the newspapers, and in a couple of the the TV news channels and in a lot of internet feeds.
So nice to see myself a head of the curve for once.
See you all next time.
Well not much does seem to cover a lot like some quick grocery shopping and a quick run downtown to the first annual Slut Walk of Toronto. Now a week and some ago there was an article in the newspaper that said this lady from York University had heard what a Toronto police officer had told an Osgoode Hall full of potential lawyers that women could help stop rape by not making themselves a target by dressing slutty. So she decided that this betrayed a bias by the Toronto Police and the fact they could not define what was slutty meant their apologies were empty and a demonstration or protest was needed to show the police and people the error of their ways. As a result Toronto got a Slut Walk from Queen's Park to Police HeadQuarters and an expected 100 marchers turned into five thousand supporters on Facebook and one thousand five hundred or more actual marchers.
Now I was aghast by the police saying what they did but all in support of this take back the night type protest. My father when I mentioned this thought it was a sex show. Then he thought it was shameful. Shameful that women would want to dress as sluts. Dad was missing the points. People should be allowed to dress as they want without being judged in any particular way. AQnd if the police or any court tries to blame the victim of a crime as their fault and not realize no one goes out and says rape and beat me. I posed to dear old Dad that what if a possible grand daughter were to dress up as say Lady Gaga or Madonna would that mean she should be raped and to that Dad said no and was there something I wasn't telling him. After that he refused to be goaded into conversation about this and sort of dismissed the SlutWalk when it was brought up. That is until Sunday afternoon when I changed the channel to CP24 and upon seeing the start of the speeches at Queens Park was worried when I told him I needed a lift to the subway as I was on my way there. I said to him that if we don't support this now then what to happen next time someone is assaulted and someone says it's okay they were just nerds. Discrimination is discrimination and we should never allow bias to come into it.
The walk was to say enlightening. Many people had signs and to say the range of clothing being provocative was to say I was expecting a lot of Gucci knock-offs and didn't was something more about the cool wind than the people trying to be deliberate provocative. Many seemed to understand the issues at hand. It would have become a small street party until the police started kettling people off the street to crowd the sidewalk. After that I wandered off like everyone else and did a bit of walk about to Ryerson, Yonge Dundas Square, and Nathan Philips Square. With that I got to see the new Nintendo 3DS in action and while I like it's gimick approach to gameplay I found their lack of info comparing it to the Nintendo DSXLi a reason to leave well enough alone. A nice way to end the day downtown and to seperate myself from just one cause at a time.
Unfortunately it took more than a full day for Dad to sit down and see my photos of the day. Reluctance was the ideal to describe him. I think he finally understood what was at hand when I pointed out that not just the police kettling but that a large part of the crowd was not just young women but their mums and grans.
Some of the things that gets me is while I rushed to place my pics on Facebook no one seemed to notice but the next day when this hit the news the next day everyone seemed to pick up on it without realizing I
a) I was there, and b) they had still missed it.
They weren't thinking of the future just that they finally wanted to support this. The day after it happened. The day after it happened and was no further than page three of the newspapers, and in a couple of the the TV news channels and in a lot of internet feeds.
So nice to see myself a head of the curve for once.
See you all next time.
Friday, April 1, 2011
April Fool's day vote Canadian Federal Election
1 April 2011 and another April Fool's day comes and goes and so does another Canadian Federal Election. As Jon Stewart said in New York "Free at last free at last Democracy has finally come to Canada just like Syria, Libya, Egypt, and all the other countries under a tyrannical despot. Oh wait this is Canada, snore."
happy April Fool's Day and speak to you all later.
happy April Fool's Day and speak to you all later.
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