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Nov 2018
10:20pm, 6 Nov 2018
39,516 posts
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Velociraptor
Making Christmas cake is a lot of fuss and ingredients. I buy mine in the first week of January. I can confirm that the texture of the icing isn't at its best three years later but the cake itself is fine.
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Nov 2018
1:57am, 7 Nov 2018
295 posts
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Jenelopy
I'm starting to wonder if it going mouldy last year was a fluke. I wrapped it in grease-proof paper and stored it in an old icecream box. Perhaps it wasnt really cold before I essentially sealed it in the box?
V'rap, I agree that it does use a lot of ingredients, but most of them are eggs which is very useful if you have slightly too many chickens, neighbours who don't really like eggs, and usually run to work so cant very often take surplus eggs in to colleagues...
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Nov 2018
7:02am, 7 Nov 2018
18,692 posts
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Lizzie W
One year I made a fancy Christmas pudding. It cost a bomb and tasted exactly the same as the usual recipe! We buy puds and mincemeat reduced after Christmas.
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Nov 2018
7:10am, 7 Nov 2018
18,693 posts
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Lizzie W
Yesterday I experimented with gluten free flour to see how things turned out. I used the recipes on the Doves flours for white bread and fairy cakes.
The bread recipe should have stated tepid or warm water, but rose eventually; tastes slightly odd but OK with plenty of topping, moist in an oily? way, better toasted - a bit like prawn toasts!
The fairy cakes were better: flat, tasted fine, a bit too moist too, but I could have cooked them for a minute or two longer.
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Nov 2018
4:28pm, 7 Nov 2018
954 posts
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Little Miss Happy
There are some much better gf bread recipes than that one Lizzie - do you have a bread maker? You don't need gf recipes for cake or biscuit baking either, you can adapt any recipe with the addition of an appropriate amount of xanthan gum.
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Nov 2018
4:39pm, 7 Nov 2018
18,719 posts
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Lizzie W
Thanks LMH. No breadmaker, I used my stand mixer.
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Nov 2018
6:11pm, 7 Nov 2018
955 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Ah - with a stand mixer you could try some of the Gluten Free on a Shoestring bread recipes - I really like the look of them but have a bread maker and no stand mixer.
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Nov 2018
6:52pm, 7 Nov 2018
18,720 posts
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Lizzie W
Excellent, just been reading that one! Not sure what flour though.
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Nov 2018
7:55pm, 7 Nov 2018
1,655 posts
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PenW
LMH do you have a good gf bread maker recipe?
The one that came with the bread maker wasn’t wholly successful.
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Nov 2018
6:07am, 8 Nov 2018
956 posts
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Little Miss Happy
I'd try it with a generic gf blend Lizzie.
I have two books with good gf bread recipes in Pen - The Big Book of Bread (I bought mine secondhand through Amazon for £1) and Gluten Free Bread and Cakes from your breadmaker by Carolyn Humphries - the muesli bread in the latter is a favourite. What sort of loaf are you looking for? I could type up a recipe and mail it to you when I get time.
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Bread machine recipes?
Jun 2023
