From rharter@emc-inc.com Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:33:12 -0800 From: Regina Harter Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:33:12 -0800 Subject: Re: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Well, I think I can manage the grams to cups and c to f, but can someone translate "muscovado sugar" for me? At 07:26 AM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >Well here goes then - Good job I went and got it just in case at lunch huh >:0) I just knew that SOMEBODY would have to have a chocolate fetish on this >list!! > >You guys are gonna love this one, it is soft & moist - a little like the >good old American brownie, but it is essentially a Loaf Cake. > >Ingredients: > >225g soft unsalted butter >375g dark muscovado sugar >2 large eggs - beaten >1 teaspoon vanilla extract >100g best dark chocolate - melted >200g plain flour >1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda >250ml boiling water > >23*13*7cm loaf tin > >Preheat the oven to 190c/gas mark 5, put in a baking sheet case of gooey >sticky drips later;) and grease and line the loaf tin. The lining is >important as this is a very damp cake: use parchment, Bake-O-Glide or one >of those loaf-tin-shaped paper cases. > >Cream the butter and sugar, either with a wooden spoon or an electric hand >held mixer, then add the eggs and vanilla, beating in well. Next fold in the >melted and now slightly cooled chocolate, taking care to blend well, but >being careful not to over beat. You want the ingredients combined: you DON'T >want a light airy mass. Then gently add the flour, to which you've added >the bicarb, alternately spoon by spoon, with the boiling water until you >have a smooth and fairly liquid batter. Pour into the lined loaf tin and >bake for 30 mins. turn the oven down to 170c/gas mark 3 and continue to cook >for another 15 mins. The cake will still be a bit squidgy inside, so an >inserted cake-tester or skewer won't come out completely clean. > >Place the loaf tin on a rack, and leave to get completely cold (if you can >resist it ) before turning it out. (The *Author* recommends leaving it >for a day - hhuummm you won't get that far I can guarantee). Don't worry if >it sinks in the middle: indeed it WILL do so because its such a dense and >damp cake. > >She goes on to say it makes 8-10 slices. My advice is share it with you >nearest and dearest only and cut it in to about 3! :0) > >There you go Friday Recipe has returned, now who's turn is it next week? For >all those chocoholics - you have simply GOT to try this. If anybody bakes it >over the weekend - let me know what you think? I think it is THE best choccy >treat out! > >Regards > >Mark >OCP Certified (Original Chocolate Professional) >MCSE (Main Chocolate Supervisory Eater) > > >-----Original Message----- >Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 01:26 >To: mark@cool-tools.co.uk > > >Hi Mark, > >I'm abstaining from Pizzas for Lent, but crucially NOT chocolate cake. > >Go for it! :-) > >Rgds, >AndyD > >--- Mark Leith wrote: > > Hi there Andy, > > > > No the cake recipes seem to have ceased - Guy seems to have disappeared > > from the list :( Though the list does cook up recipes for disaster on a > > regular basis :0) If you're interested I could post a recipe though for >the > > best chocolate cake you will EVER taste!! Taken from the book - How to be >a > > domestic goddess - (my partners book - not mine:) - hey Rachel - do you >have > > this one? Could be a good one to make you a goddess in ALL areas :) > > > > Let me know, I'll post it for you all to try.. > > > > Regards > > > > Mark > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 09:56 > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > > Hi Scott, > > > > > Good to see you back! > > > > It's good to be back! :-) > > > > Sean Hull and I have been locked in a dark room for 12 months, and they've > > finally let us out. The light's so bright, I feel like Papillon getting >out > > after a Devil Island year in solitary :) > > > > Good to see the list is still so anarchic. I've missed it. Do we still >get > > cake recipes on a Friday? >=8-) > > > > Rgds, > > AndyD > > > > ===== > > andy_j_duncan@yahoo.com > > > > O'Reilly's "Oracle and Open Source": > > => http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/ > > > > Orac, Perl/Tk and Perl DBI Database DBA & Development Tool: > > => http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/DBI/ANDYDUNC/ > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! 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