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I remember reading this exact description of industrial cake production in maybe Harpers', sometime in probably the mid 1990s.

As I look around my kitchen and fridge, the only processed foods I find are dried pasta, high end tomato sauce which, by the ingredients, is close to what I make from scratch when I have time, and Thai curry paste. I tried making Thai curry paste from scratch. Once. It's amazingly difficult to grind up lemon grass with a mortal and pestle (I think nowadays they use food processors, but I don't have one).

Now I am not being all moral here...these selections are left over from my days as a rad veg. It's just that I've read too many articles like the cake story, and I gross out very easily for a biologist. I won't cook with things that I don't know the chain of custody from living thing to my tummy.

Speaking of my tummy, do you have a recipe for the Apple Spice Cake? I'd like to try it, since I can't live in BC anymore.

Thanks for posting this.

by PIGL (stevec@boreal.gmail@com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 11:39:24 AM EST
Speaking of my tummy, do you have a recipe for the Apple Spice Cake?

Well, a friend of mine has a good recipe:

Take two eggs, a pinch of cinnamon, 350 g of wheat flour, 200 g of milk, four large apples, 200 g of brown sugar and two bottles of good whiskey.

1 - Mix eggs and milk.

2 - Taste the whiskey to make sure that it is a good one.

3 - Finely mix flour and sugar.

4 - Make sure that the whiskey is still good.

5 - Gadually put zhe flour/sugar mix into the eggs and milk.

6 - 'Ave another tazte of ze fine whiskey.

7 - Addd a pinzh of sinnamon.

8 - Open ze zekond bottle of whizky.

9 - Tozz a few sppoonfuls of kurry into ze mix. Curry is alwayz good.

10 - Swipe a zhot of ze whizky.

11 - GOTO 10

12 - find anuzzer bottle of whizky.

13 - chuck a roasted chicken into ze mix.

14 - 'ave anuzzer drunk.

15 - go to bed. who vould vant to eat kake anywayz ven zey ave wizky.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Caution! Remember to turn off the stove before you turn in.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 03:32:33 PM EST
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It's amazingly difficult to grind up lemon grass with a mortal and pestle

In the running for Typo of the Year?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 04:00:47 PM EST
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by PIGL (stevec@boreal.gmail@com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 05:09:15 PM EST
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