Gluten free cake!
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blackberry444Because we didn't go shopping yesterday, I had to get up at 7.30 this morning, wake John and nag him till he got up. In the end we got to Morrison's by 8.45, but really not a moment too soon. Fortunately there was a disabled parking space right by the door, because it was absolutely freezing
When we arrived there weren't all that many people there, but by the time we left it was beginning to get rather overcrowded. I bought John breakfast in the caff, He had two bacon baps and I had one with extra bacon and an almond croissant, with a mocha coffee. Lovely!
While we were there I looked for gluten free flour but there was none. I did manage to find some incredibly expensive white gluten free loaves, English muffins, fruit cake slices and Bakewell tarts (£1.80 for four). Oh! And a sizeable bag of pasta! I've told Charles he must keep the bread in the freezer and just get out a few slices at a time because at £1.99 for quite a small and rather depressing-looking loaf, I don't want any wasted. He's very pleased that he can have Marmite toast again!
He had one of the fruit slices this afternoon and a bakewell tart instead of pudding. He gave me a tiny taste. The fruit slice was lovely, but the bakewell tart was very odd indeed, with pastry resembling very hard cardboard. Presumably you can't really make pastry without gluten.
We'd only been back from Morrison's a short while when the lovely sunshine disappeared and it started to hail........ horizontally. A couple of the Asian lads from across the road came tumbling out of the house in their vests and bare feet to grab handfuls of the sleet.
Later on it hailed again, then it snowed for a bit, then it rained and melted all the snow, all interspersed with short periods of brilliant sunshine, but Boy! was it cold!
Unfortunately, when I came to make Penny's Impossible Orange cake, I found I'd misread the ingredients list, making the quantity of ground almonds 2½ ounces instead of 2½ cups, so when I realised my mistake, I had to send poor John out to find some more. He couldn't find ground almonds anywhere!! Eventually someone in Morrison's suggested that he get flaked almonds and I could grind them, so he bought all that were left which amounted to three miserable little packets, which when I ground them and added what I'd already got, just made up the necessary quantity.
It's a remarkably easy cake to make, if extremely weird, but I never thought it would actually become solid. It's sitting in the tin waiting to be released and decorated tomorrow. It looks and smells very nice. I think that rather than being cake, it's a kind of sweet, baked, almond and orange omelette or soufflé! We shall see tomorrow.
I had a lovely unexpected invitation a couple of days ago to attend the wedding of the elder daughter of Bulbul, one of my Bengali friends. We'll definitely go, but I have no idea of etiquette about presents or anything else. People have suggested that I ask the family, but I think I shall ask another Asian friend of mine, because I'm pretty sure that Bulbul will tell me not to buy anything and, of course, I want to get them something.
John bought us a lovely Indian takeaway this evening and I'm still absolutely stuffed. Fortunately I suddenly remembered to take the goose out of the freezer, so I hope it will be defrosted in time to be cooked tomorrow, otherwise we shall have to have a very late dinner instead of an early one as we wanted! Not that it really matters!
I have still not discovered how to listen to jazz on the MyClassicFM Player, but have found a couple of jazz stations I can listen to on the Internet with Windows Media Player, which I suppose is better than nothing. Of course, it means I can't listen in the kitchen or the sitting room, or on my personal BAB radio in the garden, or wherever, which is an awful bind, but Sailor Vee, I suppose!
When we arrived there weren't all that many people there, but by the time we left it was beginning to get rather overcrowded. I bought John breakfast in the caff, He had two bacon baps and I had one with extra bacon and an almond croissant, with a mocha coffee. Lovely!
While we were there I looked for gluten free flour but there was none. I did manage to find some incredibly expensive white gluten free loaves, English muffins, fruit cake slices and Bakewell tarts (£1.80 for four). Oh! And a sizeable bag of pasta! I've told Charles he must keep the bread in the freezer and just get out a few slices at a time because at £1.99 for quite a small and rather depressing-looking loaf, I don't want any wasted. He's very pleased that he can have Marmite toast again!
He had one of the fruit slices this afternoon and a bakewell tart instead of pudding. He gave me a tiny taste. The fruit slice was lovely, but the bakewell tart was very odd indeed, with pastry resembling very hard cardboard. Presumably you can't really make pastry without gluten.
We'd only been back from Morrison's a short while when the lovely sunshine disappeared and it started to hail........ horizontally. A couple of the Asian lads from across the road came tumbling out of the house in their vests and bare feet to grab handfuls of the sleet.
Later on it hailed again, then it snowed for a bit, then it rained and melted all the snow, all interspersed with short periods of brilliant sunshine, but Boy! was it cold!
Unfortunately, when I came to make Penny's Impossible Orange cake, I found I'd misread the ingredients list, making the quantity of ground almonds 2½ ounces instead of 2½ cups, so when I realised my mistake, I had to send poor John out to find some more. He couldn't find ground almonds anywhere!! Eventually someone in Morrison's suggested that he get flaked almonds and I could grind them, so he bought all that were left which amounted to three miserable little packets, which when I ground them and added what I'd already got, just made up the necessary quantity.
It's a remarkably easy cake to make, if extremely weird, but I never thought it would actually become solid. It's sitting in the tin waiting to be released and decorated tomorrow. It looks and smells very nice. I think that rather than being cake, it's a kind of sweet, baked, almond and orange omelette or soufflé! We shall see tomorrow.
I had a lovely unexpected invitation a couple of days ago to attend the wedding of the elder daughter of Bulbul, one of my Bengali friends. We'll definitely go, but I have no idea of etiquette about presents or anything else. People have suggested that I ask the family, but I think I shall ask another Asian friend of mine, because I'm pretty sure that Bulbul will tell me not to buy anything and, of course, I want to get them something.
John bought us a lovely Indian takeaway this evening and I'm still absolutely stuffed. Fortunately I suddenly remembered to take the goose out of the freezer, so I hope it will be defrosted in time to be cooked tomorrow, otherwise we shall have to have a very late dinner instead of an early one as we wanted! Not that it really matters!
I have still not discovered how to listen to jazz on the MyClassicFM Player, but have found a couple of jazz stations I can listen to on the Internet with Windows Media Player, which I suppose is better than nothing. Of course, it means I can't listen in the kitchen or the sitting room, or on my personal BAB radio in the garden, or wherever, which is an awful bind, but Sailor Vee, I suppose!
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Date: 2008-03-23 09:51 am (UTC)I wondered why I was getting all these references to Hindu customs when I scroogled for "Bengali Wedding Etiquette"!
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Date: 2008-03-23 10:23 am (UTC)You could use wireless speakers, like these or similar, with the transmitter unit plugged into the computer speaker or (possibly) line-out socket. It would also work plugged into the main house hi-fi if you wanted to listen to a CD.
I have had a pair of Philips wireless speakers for many years; they work well around the house, and also in the garden if they're at table height. They run on rechargeable AA batteries; the transmitter has a plug-in mains power supply.
gluten free chocolate cake
Date: 2008-03-23 05:53 pm (UTC)http://www.liverpool4kids.co.uk/pages/cooking1.htm
Tesco do all kinds of different gluten free flour, I remember ordering rice and tapioca flour from them and some kind of vegetarian gum to give the chewiness that gluten free bread lacks when I was niece sitting last time. Gorgeous goddaughter niece has celiac disease and eats that horrid crumbly expensive sliced bread, but the stuff made with the recipe for sandwich bread on this website was much nicer. Buggrit, can't find the site anymore, here's one from the beeb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/whiteyeastbread_74766.shtml
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Re: gluten free chocolate cake
Date: 2008-03-23 09:34 pm (UTC)Is it *really* called Bruce Bogtrotter Chocolate Cake? And if so, does it mean we shall be trotting to the bog after eating it?
Thanks for the bread recipe, too. This expensive bread I've bought looks rather unsatisfactory and Charles says it has a strange texture. He likes the English Muffins, though.
Re: gluten free chocolate cake
Date: 2008-03-27 05:32 pm (UTC)MyClassicFM.
Date: 2008-03-24 05:15 pm (UTC)If you go on: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/mediaadvice/0106.mspx
There is some information, but what fixed mine is this, which is copied directly from that page, and I've done it myself and it worked instantly.
"To rename the Player networking information folder
1.
Close Windows Media Player. (To do this, on the File menu, click Exit.)
2.
Click Start, and then click Run.
3.
In the Run dialog box, type the following (exactly as shown):
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Media
This step opens the following folder on your computer:
SystemDrive:\Documents and Settings\UserProfileName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Media
4.
In this folder, rename the folder 10.0 to 10.0.bak. For more information about renaming folders, see To change the name of a file or folder.
5.
Start the Player and try to stream the content again."
Now it's working perfectly.
Give this a go, and should help.
Samie.
Re: MyClassicFM.
Date: 2008-03-25 06:07 pm (UTC)I tried your suggestions but sadly they didn't work for me, so I went to the web site you suggested and tried out all their suggestions.
Sadly none of the things they suggested has made any difference, the only thing left being a suggestion that my sound card needs new drivers, but they appear to be up to date, and the card works with other sites and with Media Player, so I think I'm going to leave it for the present, and just pop back from time to time to see if anything has changed.
I've been fortunate in discovering that Media Player gives me access to lots of worldwide internet jazz programmes, so I shall be listening to them when theJazz goes off air.
Thanks so much for your information, though.
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Date: 2008-03-25 11:44 am (UTC)OldBloke says when he retires he's going to experiment with making bread for us.
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Date: 2008-03-25 06:09 pm (UTC)I really don't know where I would put eight loaves. There would be no freezer room for anything else.
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Date: 2008-03-26 10:11 am (UTC)