Where's the errata when you need it?
Mar. 6th, 2013 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monkey5sHave a wonderful book home from the library, Tate's Bake Shop baking for friends, by Kathleen King. It has so many recipes I want to make that I can't even begin to imagine writing them all down, so it's gone onto my Amazon wish list.
But.
Today I was looking at the cake recipes in it, and at the "date-banana cake with cream cheese icing" in particular. In this recipe, you start by combining 1 1/2 cups rolled oats with 1 1/2 cups boiling water, and let it cool.
Apparently, you do this just for fun, because at no point in the rest of the recipe do we hear what we are supposed to do with them. Every other ingredient is accounted for in the step-by-step directions. It's an interesting recipe, but I'm uncertain if the oats would be considered something to add with the flour mix, or should they be held for the mashed bananas mix-in? Or, you know, were you just supposed to eat them yourself while the cake baked? Because that's a big bowl of oatmeal, that there.
This has led me to look at all the recipes in the book with my picky-details hat on, but so far the rest of the ones I like seem to be intact.
But.
Today I was looking at the cake recipes in it, and at the "date-banana cake with cream cheese icing" in particular. In this recipe, you start by combining 1 1/2 cups rolled oats with 1 1/2 cups boiling water, and let it cool.
Apparently, you do this just for fun, because at no point in the rest of the recipe do we hear what we are supposed to do with them. Every other ingredient is accounted for in the step-by-step directions. It's an interesting recipe, but I'm uncertain if the oats would be considered something to add with the flour mix, or should they be held for the mashed bananas mix-in? Or, you know, were you just supposed to eat them yourself while the cake baked? Because that's a big bowl of oatmeal, that there.
This has led me to look at all the recipes in the book with my picky-details hat on, but so far the rest of the ones I like seem to be intact.
