Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
sweetest dream strawberry cake
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__Japanese proverb
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there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
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in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
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__Piero Selvaggio
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__William Shakespeare
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It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Sweetest Dream Strawberry Cake
Ingredients:
2 and 1/2 cups cake flour
1 and 1/4 teaspoons bakin' powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon bakin' soda
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 and 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup strawberry preserves
4 eggs
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon red food colourin'
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 and 3/4 cups heavy cream
1 and 1/2 pints fresh strawberries, cleaned and hulled
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350�, line two 9-inch size round pans
with parchment paper.
2. Lightly butter and flour the pans.
3. Sift together the flour, bakin' powder, salt and bakin' soda
then set aside.
3. Cream the butter and 1 and 1/2 cups sugar together 'til light and fluffy.
4. Add 3/4 cup preserves and the eggs, one at a time,
beatin' well after each addition.
5. Beat in vanilla extract and the food colourin'.
6. Beat in the flour mixture by thirds, alternatin' with the buttermilk,
and endin' with a final portion of dry ingredients.
7. Divide the batter between the pans and spread evenly.
8. Bake on the center rack 'til a wooden toothpick inserted in the centre of each layer comes out clean. That should take between twenty minutes and half an hour, dependin' on your oven.
9. Cool layers completely on a wire rack.
10. Beat the cream and the remainin' 2 tablespoons sugar 'til soft peaks form, then spread over the top of one layer.
The second layer can be wrapped and frozen for up to two months.
11. Top with strawberries and drizzle with remainin' preserves
before servin'.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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