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A Cake You Can Make Without Modern Gadgetry
It’s super easy, but it’s best to follow step-by-step instructions
My neighbours and I share the occasional dinner, and so far, the dessert part has always been left to me.
This in itself is not bad, mostly because I can read … I say this in jest because my husband used to say he couldn’t cook, to which I’d say, “Well, if you can read and follow instructions, then I think you can.”
Still, he avoided cooking like the plague. As a scientist, he had to have everything weighed and measured, laid out in the order of appearance in the recipe, all saucepans and utensils organised, and with a timer to boot.
Already you can see how different we two were! By the time he would have had things in perfect order, I could have had a whole dinner in the oven!
Why am I telling you this?
Only because, if he’d been preparing to cook this cake, he wouldn’t have been left with the eggs still on the bench, as I did today, wondering why my batter looked like a hopeless cause.
My saving grace is that as an amateur cook with years of experience, I knew something was wrong with the batter, and it was only when I re-read the recipe that I noticed the eggs languishing on the bench, forgotten and…
