[HPFGU-OTChatter] Cocoa-Cola Cake

[Amanda Lewanski]

I have a good buttermilk substitute, involving whole milk soured with
white vinegar, and if anyone wants it I'll go look at my mom's pound
cake recipe and get you the proportions.

--Amanda

Jen Faulkner wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no wrote:
>
> > This recipe was passed on to me by an Internet acquaintance.  I have
>
> > not had the opportunity to try it myself, due to a number of
> problems
> > with converting the recipe into Norwegian standard.  Among other
> > things I am in doubt as to whter I can replace buttermilk with
> > regular sour-milk, as I understood the descriptions of buttermilk to
>
> > be a bit different from  sourmilk.
>
> Buttermilk is different from sour milk, and it is called for in
> recipes
> that would've formerly used sour milk, because pasteurized milk won't
> sour naturally (it just spoils).  You can substitute buttermilk for
> sour
> milk -- I'm pretty sure you can substitute the other way also.
>
> > ::Adopts air of insufferable superiority::  Honestly; why can't
> > you just adopt the metric system like *sivilized* countries do?!
>
> 'Cause then they'd have to abandon one of the basics of elementary
> school math? *g* How many cups in a pint?  How many pints in a quart?
> How many quarts in a gallon?  *shudders at the recollection* I was
> really hopeless at it too.  (My grades in math *vastly* improved when
> we
> began to learn real math rather than arithmetic.  I was also much
> better
> at algebra and calculus than geometry and trigonometry.)  I still
> haven't the faintest idea how some of the conversions work -- how many
>
> teaspoons in a tablespoon, for instance.  So they teach the nice, easy
>
> metric system just to remind you of what might've been...  but I
> *still*
> wouldn't want to switch (call my attitude parochial, if you must *g*),
>
> because while I understand them abstractly, I have no real world sense
>
> of metric measures.  I could pour, say, a half cup of milk without a
> measuring cup, because I *know* how much it is, but 125 mL has no
> 'meaning' to me...  I suspect most of us Americans feel that way, and
> therefore don't want to change, and it doesn't seem that anyone's
> going
> to make us...
>
> > Also, how much is in a "box" of powdered sugar?  Is it common in USA
>
> > to use recipes with measurments in boxes and sticks rather than
> > ounzes and cups?
>
> I've never actually seen a call for a box of powdered sugar before; I
> wasn't even aware that they were always the same size.  The box in my
> cabinet has 3 3/4 cups.  It is common, however, to use measurements
> like
> that, particularly in recipes that aren't in cookbooks intended for a
> wide audience.  Butter and margarine are often measured in sticks,
> since
> that's the way most of us would get them from the store.  But you'll
> also see them measured in cups.  I can't recall that I've *ever* seen
> a
> recipe that called for something in ounces, without giving an
> alternative of how to measure it (ie. '12 oz (1 package) of chips')...
>
> I'd not know how to measure that, since it's a weight measure...  But
> it's definitely not uncommon for recipes to call for a certain size
> package (box) of something...
>
> The cake sounds quite interesting....
>
> --jen :)
>
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