Month: December 2023
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Coffee Cake
Coffee cake is served with coffee, typically sweet and spiced to complement coffee’s strong flavor. Coffee cake is another kind of cake with layers being baked together simultaneously. Unlike the tarte Tatin, a layer of crumb, similar to Germany’s streusel, is spread and baked atop the cake batter. Streusel means sprinkle or strew in German,…
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Rosemary Apple Cake
To give complexity to a cake, whether to contrast or to compliment its flavors and textures, we build dimensions into it. One method is to add layers after the cake is done baking, such as frosting. Another way is to bake separate layers simultaneously. Because layers require different settings to be correctly cooked, the challenge…
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The Art of Reading Poetry
“O my deare master! cannot you (quoth I) Make me a Poet, doe it if you can, And you shall see, I’ll quickly bee a man.” -Michael Drayton Not only as a painting, but a poem can be seen in different ways. In The Art of Reading Poetry, Earl Daniels outlined how a poem could…
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Notes on Cake
In making cakes, size matters. Different baking pans require changes to the original proportion between ingredients, else it may no longer allow for a sufficient rise or may lead to over-leavening, causing the cake to collapse. As Shirley Corriher noted that “a sad cake is a happy cake”, a soft and moist cake, which is…
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