What are you been cooking today

[achookwoman]

Cookie, would love to see it with the glaze.
I found a packet of Japanese bread mix in the pantry. It looked like it had a lot of rice flour in it. I added bread flour to make it up to 500 g. I mixed in bread machine and baked in oven. Result, a fine crumb loaf.
Made a nice salad sandwich.

[cookie1]

That sounds very interesting Chookie.
The cake is all finished and I’m very pleased with it. It was hard to photograph with the mirror glaze. Hopefully it will taste nice.

[judydawn]

Good job cookie.

[cookie1]

Thank you. It’s very rich.

[mab19]

Cookie, the cake looks very nice.

I have a lamb and vegetable casserole in the oven at the moment.

[K Atie]

Made potato and leek soup with bacon . Yum .

[achookwoman]

Cookie, thanks for the photo. That looks beautiful.
I made some malt biscuits from my blog. They are very sweet.

[Cuilidh]

Your cake looks great, Cookie.

I have a bundt tin question - if you cook a cake in a Bundt or round tin with a central hole in it (clumsy wording there, but I am not sure what you call the central column in a round tin!).  Anyway, getting away from that, do you still cook the cake in such a tin for the same amount of time as you would for a 'standard' cake in a round tin, or for a shorter time and the same temperature?

[cookie1]

I’m not too sure Marina I have a couple of cakes I always cook in a ring tin, and only that tin. I’m sure Chookie will help us.

I bought myself the hundredth anniversary Countrywomen’s Association cookbook the other day. Purely sentimental reasons. I have Mum’s from 1948, inscribed by her parents and my 1972 edition. I made Peanut Biscuits from it today.

[achookwoman]

Marina and Cookie, I don’t know either. Like Cookie, I have certain recipes that I only cook in the special tins. The cakes cooked in the Bundt tin are usually very big to get the full effect.
If I wanted to bake a recipe that I like, in a Bundt tin, I would start testing 10 minutes before the normal finish baking time. I write the results and note on the recipe. I also take a photo of the cake in the tin.
For bread, I put a slip of paper into the tin with instructions.

[Cuilidh]

Thanks for the bundt tin / round tin feedback Chookie and Cookie.  I have never actually cooked in a bundt tin, simply because I was never sure about the cooking time - maybe one day I will feel adventurous and give it a try - will have to buy the tin first, though! 

[cookie1]

I made some crackers similar to Shapes. They are nice but need a bit more of a kick.

[cookie1]

Today I made some SD discard crackers. We tend to eat them too fast as they are yummy.

[K Atie]

Yesterday I made two batches at the same time of  pumpkin soup with risoni pasta in it .

[achookwoman]

Yesterday I made a large pot of Pea and Ham soup. I made it in the slow cooker.
Today I’m teaching a friend how to make SD crumpets in the pie machine. I’ll also make bread sticks and Portuguese Custard tarts as I have visitors coming to stay for a few days, tomorrow.