We found a lot of great stuff, including a black le creuset tea pot! £10! It's beautiful and Becci snapped it up so I'll be round to hers for tea soon. I saw a lot of stuff that I would like, but resisted everything apart from four mini loaf tins.
Cakes are good, but tiny cakes are excellent. I don't know why.
And when you have new loaf tins, there is only one thing you should christen them with.
Banana Bread!
We used How to be a Domestic Goddess, by Nigella Lawson, for the recipe.
We didn't change anything, other than soaking the finished loaves in a bit of rum and glazing them. Oh and I put a split in the cake half way through cooking, which is an old William Curley habit. Jonny thinks it was unnecessary. I don't.
The bananas were not ripe as the recipe states, as it was a spontaneous decision to make it today and we had none in stock. I just made sure that they had a proper good mash before going in.
The cakes have turned out beautifully. Moist and moreish. I'm not allowed to eat anymore though until I've had some lunch.
The only problem I had was that we cooked 1 recipes worth, but took quite a lot out of the large cake in order to make the small ones. This means that the big cake is wide and a bit flat, even though it has risen and definately did not sink when cooling.
Creuset for £10? I need to start going to TK Max again. Everytime I see the Creuset heart shaped casserole dishes I have to talk myself out of it.
ReplyDeleteI think it's worth going in on a regular basis, as they always have different stuff.
ReplyDeleteI think Friday may become my le creuset hunt day.
I wonder how they do it?
ReplyDeleteI was always under the impression that Le Creuset was some of the best domestic cookware available.
Keep up the blog :-)
i love the photo of the bananas peeping out of the drawer! ttk need advice on what kind of cake would be good for the unleashing - i'll email you on this *^^*! ~ *maria*x
ReplyDeleteOooh sounds like a challenge Maria! :D
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