Why am I doing this again?
Jul. 15th, 2007 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtran1:30 pm. Liem is asleep for his nap and I have two to three hours before he wakes up, my only Liem-free time of the day.
1:40 pm. Leave the house and drive to Miranda, where I buy a twelve hole muffin tray and 250 grams of butter (to replace the block I'm going to use this afternoon).
2:30 pm. Arrive back at home, preheat the oven to 180 degrees (which is 220 on the dial because we have a rather poor oven).
Extract electronic scales from top shelf, weigh out castor sugar. Look at block of butter I left out to soften. Still not softened. Use microwave to make sure of the job.
Extract mixer from top shelf. Manage not to drop mixer in process.
Mix softened butter and castor sugar, now I need four eggs. Remember to check how many eggs we still have.
Four eggs left. Well, that was lucky. Add in the eggs one-by-one. Add in vanilla essence.
Combine plain and self-raising flour. We only have wholemeal self-raising flour. Hope it won't have any ill-effects. Both flours negative on nicotinic acid.
Attempt to shift flours into bowl. Succeed in dispersing flour throughout air in kitchen.
Fold flour into egg and sugar. Wash and grease new muffin tray. I'm a bit suspicuous about the volume of cake mix I've got versus the size of the tray.
Spoon mix into tray. Well, that doesn't look too bad. Oven is ready, now bake for 20 minutes. Liem is awake now and watching Peter Pan.
3:30 pm. Ah, now I can relax.
3:40 pm. Aiyee!
3:41 pm. The cake mix has overflowed the tray. "You should have only filled them halfway up," says wife.
3:42 pm. The cake mix is dripping over only one side of the tray. It's being caught by the grease tray below and not falling on the elements. Saved!
3:50 pm. Okay, it's supposed to be ready now, but the cakes at the back are getting brown and the cakes at the front look suspiciously pale. I'd turn the muffin tray around, but I'm worried about what will happen to the overflow if it goes off the other side. I decide to give them another ten minutes.
4:00 pm. The cakes are the back are getting very brown now. I extract the tray and test with a bamboo skewer. The ones at the back look ready, but the ones in the front and middle don't look done.
4:15 pm. After resting the cakes and turning them out, I test those from the middle and the front row.
4:16 pm. The cakes from the middle and the front row get relocated to the bin.
4:17 pm. Over Liem and wife a quarter each of one of the back row cakes and try one myself.
4:18 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. Give Liem another piece.
4:19 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. Frantically tries to intercept remainder of surviving cakes before they get put away. Give Liem another small piece.
4:20 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. Give him another small piece.
4:21 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. He's had a lot of cake now. I tell him there's no more. Liem bursts into two-year old histrionics.
4:22 pm. Start scraping off baked on cake mixture from various parts of the oven.
1:40 pm. Leave the house and drive to Miranda, where I buy a twelve hole muffin tray and 250 grams of butter (to replace the block I'm going to use this afternoon).
2:30 pm. Arrive back at home, preheat the oven to 180 degrees (which is 220 on the dial because we have a rather poor oven).
Extract electronic scales from top shelf, weigh out castor sugar. Look at block of butter I left out to soften. Still not softened. Use microwave to make sure of the job.
Extract mixer from top shelf. Manage not to drop mixer in process.
Mix softened butter and castor sugar, now I need four eggs. Remember to check how many eggs we still have.
Four eggs left. Well, that was lucky. Add in the eggs one-by-one. Add in vanilla essence.
Combine plain and self-raising flour. We only have wholemeal self-raising flour. Hope it won't have any ill-effects. Both flours negative on nicotinic acid.
Attempt to shift flours into bowl. Succeed in dispersing flour throughout air in kitchen.
Fold flour into egg and sugar. Wash and grease new muffin tray. I'm a bit suspicuous about the volume of cake mix I've got versus the size of the tray.
Spoon mix into tray. Well, that doesn't look too bad. Oven is ready, now bake for 20 minutes. Liem is awake now and watching Peter Pan.
3:30 pm. Ah, now I can relax.
3:40 pm. Aiyee!
3:41 pm. The cake mix has overflowed the tray. "You should have only filled them halfway up," says wife.
3:42 pm. The cake mix is dripping over only one side of the tray. It's being caught by the grease tray below and not falling on the elements. Saved!
3:50 pm. Okay, it's supposed to be ready now, but the cakes at the back are getting brown and the cakes at the front look suspiciously pale. I'd turn the muffin tray around, but I'm worried about what will happen to the overflow if it goes off the other side. I decide to give them another ten minutes.
4:00 pm. The cakes are the back are getting very brown now. I extract the tray and test with a bamboo skewer. The ones at the back look ready, but the ones in the front and middle don't look done.
4:15 pm. After resting the cakes and turning them out, I test those from the middle and the front row.
4:16 pm. The cakes from the middle and the front row get relocated to the bin.
4:17 pm. Over Liem and wife a quarter each of one of the back row cakes and try one myself.
4:18 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. Give Liem another piece.
4:19 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. Frantically tries to intercept remainder of surviving cakes before they get put away. Give Liem another small piece.
4:20 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. Give him another small piece.
4:21 pm. "MORE!" says Liem. He's had a lot of cake now. I tell him there's no more. Liem bursts into two-year old histrionics.
4:22 pm. Start scraping off baked on cake mixture from various parts of the oven.
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Date: 2007-07-15 08:31 am (UTC)I am glad to hear that and slightly amused to have initiated a worldwide test for the acceptability of flour.
It's a learning curve, and compared to my first batches of dwarf bread, your muffins sound positively edible.
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Date: 2007-07-15 09:20 am (UTC)