cooking, fruit and size

[growingvegetables]

This thread makes me sad. .... Are parents not teaching their children kitchen basics, or is it just boys who are missing out?

An awful lot of parents don't know the basics themselves .

And don't get me started on "Food Technology" in schools .

Far too many kids miss out. Both genders.

Fwiw, in my limited experience, I've come across rather more boys in secondary school curious to get involved in "real" baking than girls; a little different from my youth, where I had to learn baking from my sister's transfer of skills from her Domestic Science classes.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

By now the cake should be done: any pictures @User9609?
Btw, have you seen @Cuchilo's cup cakes?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

[QUOTE 4682970, member: 9609"]there's no cake, it didn't go well at all, I have completely borked my knee and there is other stuff thats not good - few things to sort out the morrow[/QUOTE]
Oh, sorry to hear that!
Hope you didn't bash your knee on the open oven door, I did that before in a small kitchen.
I might bake a lemon cake in your honor tomorrow

 

[winjim]

I'm sort of imagining @User9609 's kitchen on fire and covered in cake mixture with him sat in the corner clutching his knee and sobbing in confusion, still just staring at the lemons.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

We shouldn't laugh @winjim!

 

[User482]

(off topic) if you warm lemon in microwave, you get more juice out of it.

I tried this but my microwave remains stubbornly dry.

 

[slowmotion]

Lemons are totally over-rated in cooking. Use lime in your G&T, or better still cucumber.

 

[User482]

Lemons are totally over-rated in cooking. Use lime in your G&T, or better still cucumber.

You count a G&T as cooking?

 

[TheDoctor]

It is impossible for lemon cake to be too lemony.
I made a batch of lemon dribble fairy cakes a few days ago - one egg, 2 oz each of SR flour, butter and sugar, and two lemons. Zest in the cake, juice and more sugar on top once they're done. Makes 8 littleish ones.
It's better with fresh lemons. Like fresh off the tree. This may require a trip to NZ or somewhere.

 

[Speicher]

It is impossible for lemon cake to be too lemony.
I made a batch of lemon dribble fairy cakes a few days ago - one egg, 2 oz each of SR flour, butter and sugar, and two lemons. Zest in the cake, juice and more sugar on top once they're done. Makes 8 littleish ones.
It's better with fresh lemons. Like fresh off the tree. This may require a trip to NZ or somewhere.

Or to Italy for Limoncello?

 

[Reynard]

Tesco have Finest lemon drizzle cakes for £2 at the mo...serves six apparently, so perfect for one in reality

I picked two up on yellow sticker tonight at 75p each - one for me, one for my neighbour.

 

[PeteXXX]

Forget lemon cakes!!
Save the juice(of two lemons) for your pancakes on Shrove Tuesday

 

[slowmotion]

You count a G&T as cooking?

It helps the process...but lemons have no place in the oven. As for meat and fruit, the combination is an absolute abomination.

 

[growingvegetables]

[QUOTE 4682970, member: 9609"]there's no cake, it didn't go well at all, I have completely borked my knee and there is other stuff thats not good - few things to sort out the morrow[/QUOTE]
Oh lordy. Borked knee baking a cake - come on, @User9609 ...... there's a story there! Has to be!

And as for things to sort out the morrow - photos, or it ain't so.

Seriously though - some cakes have a mind of their own, and refuse to follow the recipe.

 

[User482]

It helps the process...but lemons have no place in the oven. As for meat and fruit, the combination is an absolute abomination.

Quite right: roast pork and apple sauce is for weirdos.