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Archive for July, 2008

Chocolate Water-Icing

Posted in butter, chocolate, sugar, sweet, vanilla, vegetable shortening on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This icing is meant to go with Chocolate Cake.
The recipe uses hydrogenated vegetable shortening, under the Spry brand name. I’ve commented on the history, use and health considerations of using Spry or its competitor brand, Crisco in an earlier posting. My personal choice would be to use butter, which would probably also give a better [...]

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Chocolate/Coffee Filling

Posted in butter, chocolate, sugar, sweet, vegetable shortening on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is the filling that goes with Chocolate Cake, but you could use it with other cake recipes too.
This recipe uses hydrogenated vegetable shortening, under the Spry brand name. I’ve commented on the history, use and health considerations of using Spry or its competitor brand, Crisco in an earlier posting. My personal choice would [...]

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Chocolate Cake

Posted in baking powder, butter, cake, chocolate, cocoa, egg, milk, sugar, sweet, vegetable shortening, wheat flour on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is a straightforward cake recipe using the creaming method. You might want to refer to the tips on creaming here and here.
Instead of butter, this recipe uses hydrogenated vegetable shortening, under the Spry brand name. I’ve commented on the history, use and health considerations of using Spry or its competitor brand, Crisco in [...]

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Nut and Rasin Loaf

Posted in baking powder, butter, cake, dates, egg, milk, nuts, raisins, sugar, sweet, wheat flour on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This quick bread basically uses the muffin method of mixing: dry ingredients in one bowl, wet ingredients in another, mix together very quickly till just blended. The difference is that it is baked into a large cake, rather than small muffins. For me, I often do the opposite and bake cake recipes into muffin or [...]

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Drop Scones

Posted in baking powder, egg, milk, sugar, sweet, wheat flour on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The term ‘Drop Scones’ can be rather confusing because it’s used to refer to two distinctly different items. The first usage, which seems to be more common in America, is scones made by the rubbing-in method, just like that described in the Plain Scones recipe but roughly shaped by dropping spoonfuls of the dough onto [...]

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Apple Scone

Posted in apple, baking powder, butter, cream, sugar, wheat flour on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been waaay too long since I last posted here. The changes to the WordPress Dashboard have really gotten the better of me and made blogging too frustrating and time-consuming. I’m now experimenting with offline blogging software and using different operating systems so I hope to find a new method that works for me [...]

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