Deeming Workshop of Leather and Motorcycle Maintenance, Faculty of Mech. Eng. at the UMN

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Who's first, me or Small?

Well if you were to get the ReAl thing as a model, I think you'd have to base your cake on Between the Sheets rather than Strikeback. Bit of a wasted opportunity otherwise, and on a cultuRAl note we could add a Michelangelo to the Academy's art collection!

Oooh, what a lovely sight to gladden my eyes when I can finally log on again. A cake that takes the biscuit. Baggsy I get to spread on the butter cream.

Mmm, I love Dundee cake, that's the one with the whole almonds on top is it?

Sorry to hear Twigboy still isn't right, it is so horrid when they are poorly and you can't be sure what it is that is the matter with them.

It sounds like The Siege is another thing I have to get. That vid they made to go with it was really clever.

ROFL @ Maud's pointing out that LadyD missed the "psychologically-damaged" bit out. Such a tragedy, I always think, and him so comely, withal .

I was just browsing Amazon - as you do - and found something rather extraordinary is to be published soon - a PD James murder mystery, that is also a Pride and Prejudice continuation. I wonder if it's any good? By anyone else I would say it would be total rubbish, but I find myself intrigued.

Evening ladies, please stop all this cake talk it's making hungry!

I do love the SB stills

Good evening, fellow intellectuals and questers after truth. Once again, we seek to answer one of the dilemmas ta the heart of human existence.

Well if we can't have the first, we will have to make do with the other. Trouble is, Richard is calorie-free and cake isn't.

See my idea of a RA Cake is the way forward!! Where's Lady D to tell me how exactly I'm going to achieve this masterpiece?!

I am sulking about cake 'cos I just burned the Xmas one :( Bloody Delia - she said "don't open the oven until at least 4 hours have passed, it will probably need closer to 5" - and after only 3.5 hours I smelled it was burning. It's only a little bit on the top, but still irritating. Oh, this was quite funny! I got my Delia Xmas book fom ebay years ago and yesterday I noticed that it's autographed by Delia!

I've got the Delia Xmas book too but I don't think I've ever cooked anything from it. Can you trim it a bit, Twigs?

Of course the ideal scenario would be cake on Richard!

A similar thing happened to me the only time I ventured into Christmas cake making, Twigs. I should send Delia a stiff email - and tell her you feel like returning her autographed cookbook to her.

Of course the ideal scenario would be cake on Richard

Now that's what I call having your cake and eating it

I've had issues with Delia before as well on her cooking times, but I always assumed it was the rubbishness of military quarter ovens that have been scrubbed and cleaned within an inch of their lives every year and have no heating elements left!! but obviously I can now just blame Delia's recipe timings instead!!

Tsk! Delis is venerated as a saint in this house.

I rarely follow recipes exactly so I usually only have myself to blame when it all goes Pete Tong!

I hardly ever follow recipes at all - just go with the flow and my mood (and what's in the cupboard - yesterday's venison casserole had black currant jam in place of red currant jelly but i steered clear of adding some gin in the absence of juniper berries!! ) but when it comes to baking cakes I follow recipes exactly and it still never turns out like the photograph in the book!!!

I'll have to trim it anyway (with my fabby new cake leveller which is my BEST GADGET EVER) so it won't be too bad, hopefully. I'm going to attempt the one with the lights [scary]

Based on that concoction, RP, it sounds like you belong to the Susan Harper school of cookery!

I bet blackcurrant jam worked even better than the redcurrant jelly -richer and more mellow tasting. The gin might have been an innovation too far though, I agree.

Was surprisingly tasty! The colonel does despair at the sound of some of my concoctions but always eats them and says he likes them!. Only once have we had to get take away in an emergency!!

How do you light up a cake,Twigs?

Mr Spiro's most frequent complaints are about my tendency to cook food until it's bordering on burnt on the outside and still cold in the middle, and my habit of cremating parsnips!

Right - back in a mo. Off to do tooth fairy duty.

Well remember Spiro. Toothfairy round here seems to be very forgetful!!

Massive didn't see your post - thanks for sticking up for me!! I didn't think the jam would hurt at all and probably be very nice (which it was!) but I did think the gin may not be the best idea if only as it already had copious amounts of red wine in it!!. Twas very very yummy!!

I was only joking RP - I make probably the most unorthodox shepherds pie known to man!

Mr S had already done the tooth/coin swapover - but Miss S does like to write notes to the fairies, and of course, she expects a reply!