A visit to the kitchen shop

[judydawn]

Finally picked up a couple of good quality bread tins (no lid unfortunately) and that lovely heart shaped cake tin. I couldn't believe it when the girl asked me what I was going to make  I had to stop and think about how I was going to word it without making her look and feel silly but what can you say, apart from a cake and some bread    One measures 10 x 24 x 8cm deep and the other is 10.5 x 27 x 9.5 deep (I think the lass said this was a 680g tin but she didn't know what the smaller one was).  My question is - which recipe of isi's goes in which tin or do you go by the quantity of flour for the size of the tin.

[cathy79]

She's probably never made a cake before, let alone made her own bread.  I've had similar experiences in Health Food Shops - what's baker's flour???

[maddy]

Good buys today Judy!
Did you find some space in your cupboard then? 

[judydawn]

Yes maddy, I found a perfect space in one of the overhead cupboards I had tidied up not long ago then went around opening a few more until I found a spot for the cake tin.  They are the hardest to find spots for usually.  I have no plans to use that just yet but when I want to make a special cake (darn, just missed Valentine's Day) I will be ready to go.

[Meagan]

Judy the bread tin usually goes on the amount of flour. There were three different sizes at the bread shop I bought mine from. So for a 680g tin you would use 500g flour recipe.

[achookwoman]

JD,  what I often do is make up what i feel like,  that is in the amount of flour.   Isi's everyday bread,  adapted to all white,( 750g of flour), is too much for the tin I favor at the moment, so I cut a bit off the side of the dough and make 3 rolls.  When you put the dough into the tin it should come about,  a little more than 1/2 way up the tin.   Remember that it should double on the second rise.  .

[judydawn]

Thanks Meagan & Chookie.  I am really getting into this baking of bread these days, never thought I would. 

[Meagan]

I was just thinking that JD  Good on you for conquering 'bread making' 

[I Love Bimby!]

Great shopping JD! And Im impressed that you found the cupboard space.  I don't even have saucepans but my cupboards are overflowing anyway 

Looking forward to hearing about your bread and heart shaped cake!

DD's birthday's coming up in May so considering a heart shaped tin for her birthday cake this year. And perhaps a afternoon tea party at home 

[judydawn]

Sounds nice ILB, much cheaper to have at home and the quality of the food is far superior to what you get at those party places for kids.  Of course these days the kids seem to call hearts 'love hearts' don't they? We never referred to them as that in my day.

[I Love Bimby!]

I'm appalled with the food everytime we go to a party at those indoor play centres.  Tried asking them for a fruit platter for DD's last birthday  and it was going to be too much of an ordeal for them... and food handling laws meant that I couldn't take anything in... but I could take a birthday cake 

[judydawn]

My DD usually has parties at home but once she did go to one of those places and she wasn't even allowed to take the lolly baskets in. She had a stand up row and took them in anyway as some of her guests were leaving early.  They didn't stop her but she won't go back to those places.

[I Love Bimby!]

I saw an ad at the post office for jumping castle hire, so I might just do that next year as we only have a small place and too small for a party inside - as long as it isn't raining 

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

DD's birthday's coming up in May so considering a heart shaped tin for her birthday cake this year. And perhaps a afternoon tea party at home 

Oh for a daughter! A tea party sounds lovely!!! My eldest son is turning 4 tomorrow and we are having a bike/scooter party at a local park.  He has requested a racing car track cake.  Tomorrow I will be up to my elbows in tyres and checkered flags.

[I Love Bimby!]

LOL! Worlds apart!!!