Recipe #88 Wacky Cake
Mar 17, 2014 6:27:00 GMT
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Post by Draculasaurus on Mar 17, 2014 6:27:00 GMT
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Recipe #88
"Wacky Cake"
I was first intrigued by the provenance of this recipe.
Mrs. Nora Rawlinson claims that it "defies all baking rules!", and that she brought the recipe back from Malaya.
It sounds very exotic, like a snake charmer or a fakir and his bed of nails, some mysterious technique that western reason can never fathom.
Well it's nothing that exotic, and Mrs. Rawlinson may have found it in Malay, but didn't introduce it to the world.
Some people say that it was invented during war time rationing, but there's an earlier claim, many people remember it gaining popularity during America's Great Depression.
In fact it's also called Depression Cake or Crazy Cake by some.
But what's so wacky about this fucking thing you ask? What's the big deal?
It contains no eggs or milk is what's so wacky about it.
Instead it simply mixes baking soda and vinegar to create the bubbles which allow it to rise.
So it tastes like vinegar? No it doesn't. That's the surprising thing.
Let's get started!
(OK, I'm not using the exact recipe from the book. A lot of stupid British measurements are in weights, which is ridiculous and I don't stand for it.
Here it is roughly equivalent in nice American volumetric measurements.)
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1/3 cup vegetable, peanut or light olive oil
1 cup cold water
First mix together the dry ingredients like so-
Then mix in the liquids, do the vinegar last 'cause you don't want it getting at just a pile of baking soda and doing all of it's bubble business there.
It should be all mixed in before they meet.
Put it in an oven at 350 degrees. That's "Mach 4" if your oven is British.
It will want to cook for 25 or 30 minutes. Like any cake, stick in a toothpick, if it comes out clean; it's done.
Yum!
I added a little sprinkle of powdered sugar to mine.
So it's actually really good. My daughter loves it.
The most impressive thing is how easy it is to make. A lot of recipes you have to have a mixer or it's hard to get all the clumps out.
This is the opposite of that, it wants to go together, and you can mix it in the pan you cook it in.
(I forgot to do this)
Any way it tastes good, and it's fast and pretty foolproof and not a lot of mess.
I'd recommend it.
-and it tastes like it's canon.
Recipe #88
"Wacky Cake"
I was first intrigued by the provenance of this recipe.
Mrs. Nora Rawlinson claims that it "defies all baking rules!", and that she brought the recipe back from Malaya.
It sounds very exotic, like a snake charmer or a fakir and his bed of nails, some mysterious technique that western reason can never fathom.
Well it's nothing that exotic, and Mrs. Rawlinson may have found it in Malay, but didn't introduce it to the world.
Some people say that it was invented during war time rationing, but there's an earlier claim, many people remember it gaining popularity during America's Great Depression.
In fact it's also called Depression Cake or Crazy Cake by some.
But what's so wacky about this fucking thing you ask? What's the big deal?
It contains no eggs or milk is what's so wacky about it.
Instead it simply mixes baking soda and vinegar to create the bubbles which allow it to rise.
So it tastes like vinegar? No it doesn't. That's the surprising thing.
Let's get started!
(OK, I'm not using the exact recipe from the book. A lot of stupid British measurements are in weights, which is ridiculous and I don't stand for it.
Here it is roughly equivalent in nice American volumetric measurements.)
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1/3 cup vegetable, peanut or light olive oil
1 cup cold water
First mix together the dry ingredients like so-
Then mix in the liquids, do the vinegar last 'cause you don't want it getting at just a pile of baking soda and doing all of it's bubble business there.
It should be all mixed in before they meet.
Put it in an oven at 350 degrees. That's "Mach 4" if your oven is British.
It will want to cook for 25 or 30 minutes. Like any cake, stick in a toothpick, if it comes out clean; it's done.
Yum!
I added a little sprinkle of powdered sugar to mine.
So it's actually really good. My daughter loves it.
The most impressive thing is how easy it is to make. A lot of recipes you have to have a mixer or it's hard to get all the clumps out.
This is the opposite of that, it wants to go together, and you can mix it in the pan you cook it in.
(I forgot to do this)
Any way it tastes good, and it's fast and pretty foolproof and not a lot of mess.
I'd recommend it.
-and it tastes like it's canon.