Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

Tea is ready.

Temperature is in the 70s partly cloudy.

Have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

About these Christmas cake recipies.
Why do the recipies say wrap the outside of the tin in baking paper?
I have a springform type cake tin. Can I leave the cake in that for maturing?
I don't have anything else it will fit in.
Maybe fuzzi's wax paper wrap would be better. Wax paper the same as baking paper?

 

[Shadrach]

After the fruitcakes cooled my mother wrapped them loosely in wax paper, not airtight. Every couple days she would unwrap them, pour a small amount of sherry on her hands, and pat it all over the cakes. She'd do it for a month...and the cakes were WOW. I made them once, the ingredients made them expensive, and they were labor-intensive.

I don't think I've spent an inordinate amount on the ingredients so far. If one had to buy the alcohol that would push the price up. Luckily I've got whiskey from last Christmas.
I've been looking at the shop bought offerings. They are full of crap and way too much sugar. I'm thinking of try out a cheese cake style topping with a fruit layer rather than the more traditional marzipan and hard icing.

 

[RoyalChick]

About these Christmas cake recipies.
Why do the recipies say wrap the outside of the tin in baking paper?
I have a springform type cake tin. Can I leave the cake in that for maturing?
I don't have anything else it will fit in.
Maybe fuzzi's wax paper wrap would be better. Wax paper the same as baking paper?

Do you mean for baking, or post baking?
Post baking it is to stop it drying out. Foil works just as well.
For baking in it is to stop it sticking to the baking pan (including springform).
And no, wax paper not the same thing as baking paper/parchment.
Wax paper is great to wrap it after it is cooked. But the issue of baking it in wax paper is the wax. Which these days isn’t ‘wqxm but probably silicone.

 

[Perris]

Why do the recipies say wrap the outside of the tin in baking paper?

Brown paper - like for parcels - on the outside of the tin, is (I was told but I'm not sure about the physics) to stop the cake burning against the metal of the tin.

I have a springform type cake tin. Can I leave the cake in that for maturing?

wouldn't that just make it more difficult to wrap in an airtight way?

I don't have anything else it will fit in.

Charity shops often have appropriate size biscuit tins that make a snug fit.

Maybe fuzzi's wax paper wrap would be better. Wax paper the same as baking paper?

I've never tried wax paper so can't help there, sorry.

 

[Perris]

I'm thinking of try out a cheese cake style topping with a fruit layer rather than the more traditional marzipan and hard icing.

that might be nice. Or you could just leave it as a Dundee cake ++

 

[Shadrach]

that might be nice. Or you could just leave it as a Dundee cake ++

I made this a while ago.
https://www.hairybikers.com/recipes/view/blueberry-cheesecake
I made my own granola and used ricota cheese, butter milk and cream cheese for the topping, with the fruit underneath of course.
It came out really well. Better eaten at room temperature once set in the fridge.

 

[Shadrach]

I remember now. My mother used to wrap the cakes in fine cotton/muslin.

 

[Perris]

I made this a while ago.
https://www.hairybikers.com/recipes/view/blueberry-cheesecake
I made my own granola and used ricota cheese, butter milk and cream cheese for the topping, with the fruit underneath of course.
It came out really well. Better eaten at room temperature once set in the fridge.

looks nice - and snowy! and squidgy enough to hold a little plastic Santa / reindeer / holly or whatever you like to adorn your creation

 

[Shadrach]

Out in that! You must be joking. Not good weather. Wet, grey with a biting Easterly wind. We just ate and sat about for an hour before Henry had had enough and went to roost, the rest following shortly after. Last in Tull who seems to think that she should go to roost where and when I do. Each night when I open the back of the coop to put in breakfast and water, and give Henry his goodnight stroke, Tull waits by the door and sometimes I put her on the rooost bar, after shoving Henry along a bit.