Today is the day of my cook-a-thon. I went shopping this morning with another cheque; however the local store is poorly stocked (didn’t even have chocolate chips, let alone vanilla extract...). I have a large amount of bananas as it was (or still is) my intention to make my fabulous Banana and apricot bread. Unable to retrieve my original recipe, I am attempting to recreate my signature pud through improvisation.
In a kitchen with no tin opener, I’m slightly worried at the hurdles I may reach whilst attempting my cook-a-thon. I’ve decided to start with the easiest and most fail-proof recipe of rice crispy cakes.
After discovering that the kitchen is equipped with one cake-making related tray (a muffin tray) yet no muffin cases, I decide to make slab cake, and then cut it up into cubes or slices. Soon the chocolate rice-crispy block is sitting in the fridge, and the kitchen is still in a relatively clean condition! Now moving onto the banana bread... With no greaseproof paper, pastry brush or bread tin, this WILL be a challenge! Oh, and just realised – no scales. Slight moment of swearing, but I will NOT be defeated! The thought of making my own set of scales crosses my mind... but I can’t find anything that will balance properly. So here I am about to attempt a recipe with the oh-so-accurate measuring unit of ‘cups’. I find a beer mug big enough (I’m making a BIG banana loaf and of course, no jugs or measuring cups), and start weighing out flour. Too bad if the recipe wants it sieved – there is no sieve.
After discovering that the kitchen is equipped with one cake-making related tray (a muffin tray) yet no muffin cases, I decide to make slab cake, and then cut it up into cubes or slices. Soon the chocolate rice-crispy block is sitting in the fridge, and the kitchen is still in a relatively clean condition! Now moving onto the banana bread... With no greaseproof paper, pastry brush or bread tin, this WILL be a challenge! Oh, and just realised – no scales. Slight moment of swearing, but I will NOT be defeated! The thought of making my own set of scales crosses my mind... but I can’t find anything that will balance properly. So here I am about to attempt a recipe with the oh-so-accurate measuring unit of ‘cups’. I find a beer mug big enough (I’m making a BIG banana loaf and of course, no jugs or measuring cups), and start weighing out flour. Too bad if the recipe wants it sieved – there is no sieve.
Finally there are two banana loaves are in the oven. I changed my recipe half way through as I thought the dough needed an extra egg. How wrong can you get with cakes anyway?! How long it’ll need in the oven is anybody’s guess, so I’ll have to keep checking it every ten minutes. I think I’ll take a break and wait and see the outcome before attempting a cup-recipe for cookies!
If only I could ‘photograph’ the smells! The kitchen smells so yummy, and after checking the loaves with what I think is a fondue fork, the cakes are done! I poured out some icing sugar into a mug, and attempted the ‘sieving’ procedure by mashing it with a knife. Fortunately there IS water in the tap (!) so I was able to make icing sugar liquid very easily, and pour it over the cakes. UN-fortunately, the baking tins weren’t very deep, so these ‘cakes’ are more like ‘tiles’. Anyhow, once cut into slices (like those Lemon Drizzle slice things) I’m sure it’ll look (and taste) lovely!
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