As found in last week's 'Take a Break' magazine. Flippin' 'eck, said I, not wishing to swear on paper.

Yum!

Crikey! We have a recipe corner! Yay!

Blech!

Have had to abandon recipe due to inability to find "co stick" in either cutlery drawer.

And which Tim should I drop the colouring on?

Ah! my dreams have been shattered. I thought thay you had to have Magnus Pyke explain the cake molecules have to be specially prepared with hooks on them so that they align properly and get to the correct part of the cake tin.

So ends a childhood fantasy!!!!!!!

<exits stage left to find chocolate. None available as last blood pressure report needed Concorde to fly to maximum altitude to get reading. Bottom figure was 85 so basdically i am healthy enough to make myself ill. Feels sick due to chocolate insufficiency.>

My scanner clipped off the end of the Tips box. Trust you lot to go nit-picking. Or pick-nitting. Ugh. Sudden images of seedy cake recipes and how to improvise when you're fresh out of Caraway.

Before you ask, no I bloody didn't. If I was so inclined to eat the revolting stuff, I'd get it from the same place I bought the magazine - Sainsbury's. I don't go to panel beating classes either(although I was once banned from a TV forum for making disparaging remarks about Simon Cowell)

Is it possible to make anything other than disparaging remarks about Simon Cowell?

Oooh - new game - I'll go first..

He's quite tall.

He's English

Although I think that that is quite disparaging to the rest of the English population, guilt by association! The Americans seem to have a thing about having English villains.

You started off really well there and then threw away all chance of victory by adding a second sentence didn't you?

He's a human male (probably).

You haven't clarified this? You need to have reliable reference sources to back statements up. In the Harvard citation style.

At the risk of returning to the original topic, I must ask...
What's caster sugar? Does it in any way contain the vile caster oil?

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There. I went and discovered the definition. Apparently they screen the grains of sugar to get the finest or one of the finest mesh sizes. Apparently it dissolves instantaneously into liquid.

I always wanted to know that too.
No idea why the name. Anyone?

Innit from the Bible? Something about casting your sugar upon the water and getting sticky date pudding at the end? Maybe I'll go and reed up on it. Pharoah nuff!

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Yebbut - so does poo. Which is what marzipan smells like if you leave it in a tin next to a rabbit hutch and forget about it for a year. Sorry, what was the question again?

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So now we all know.

Found this paragraph quite amusing: It is not as fine as confectioner’s sugar, which has been crushed mechanically (and generally mixed with a little starch to keep it from clumping).

As I've said before: clump, clump, clump clump ...



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