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"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche ", [1] said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. The quote is taken to ...
Cato speaks of an enormous number of breads including; libum (cakes made with flour and honey, often sacrificed to gods [7]), placenta (groats and cress), [8] spira (modern day flour pretzels), scibilata , savillum (sweet cake), and globus apherica .
Do not dish it if you can't take it; Do not judge a book by its cover; Do not keep a dog and bark yourself; Do not let the bastards grind you down; Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet; Do not look a gift horse in the mouth; Do not make a mountain out of a mole hill; Do not meet troubles half-way; Do not put all your eggs in one basket
1. "I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food." — Laura Esquivel. 2. "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
Angel food cake, or angel cake, is a type of sponge cake made with egg whites, flour, and sugar. A whipping agent, such as cream of tartar , is commonly added. It differs from other cakes because it uses no butter.
May 4th is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! While we're celebrating with chocolate chip cookie fun facts and trivia, we'd feel remiss if we left our friend Cookie Monster out of the festivities.
The recipe is credited to Harry Baker (1883–1974), a Californian insurance salesman turned caterer. Baker kept the recipe secret for 20 years until he sold it to General Mills, which spread the recipe through marketing materials in the 1940s and 1950s under the name "chiffon cake", and a set of 14 recipes and variations was released to the public in a Betty Crocker pamphlet published in 1948.
Chocolate lava cake smothered in chocolate sauce. Molten chocolate cakes characteristically contain five ingredients: butter, eggs, sugar, chocolate, and flour. [3] The butter and chocolate are melted together, while the eggs are either whisked with the sugar to form a thick paste, producing a denser pastry, or separated, with the white whipped into a meringue to provide more lift and a ...