New reasons to be dangerously annoyed
First of all the noisy grandchildren of the people next-door are out in force. These people had too many children and they in their turn are having way to many children, including in pairs. As babies they howl, constantly, then when they're big enough to run about and talk they run about clubbing one another with anything that comes to hand and then swearing when they in their turn get hit.
Generally I get a bit wound up when they're about, but one of the little shits has just kicked a football into our garden and knocked over (and broken) a flower pot.
I've spent the time waiting for someone (a parent perhaps, or even a grandparent) to apologise looking for my upside down apple cake recipe and I can't find it.
A friend has brought round several pounds of apples and the only thing to do with them is cook them. Cakes, muffins and tarts are on the agenda, but I need that damned recipe in order to make the cake I'd promised to another friend.
The internet has proved utterly useless as it so often does for recipes. Most of the ones I find are US or prepared for a US readership. Non-metric measurement systems don't cut it with me at the best of times, but what the F*&% is a 'stick of butter' or a 'cube' of butter or ... I could go on but I have to get to the supermarket and buy baking stuff as part of the school run.
Maybe by the time I get back the people next door will have scrawled a note of apology ... assuming they are, against all odds, literate.
Generally I get a bit wound up when they're about, but one of the little shits has just kicked a football into our garden and knocked over (and broken) a flower pot.
I've spent the time waiting for someone (a parent perhaps, or even a grandparent) to apologise looking for my upside down apple cake recipe and I can't find it.
A friend has brought round several pounds of apples and the only thing to do with them is cook them. Cakes, muffins and tarts are on the agenda, but I need that damned recipe in order to make the cake I'd promised to another friend.
The internet has proved utterly useless as it so often does for recipes. Most of the ones I find are US or prepared for a US readership. Non-metric measurement systems don't cut it with me at the best of times, but what the F*&% is a 'stick of butter' or a 'cube' of butter or ... I could go on but I have to get to the supermarket and buy baking stuff as part of the school run.
Maybe by the time I get back the people next door will have scrawled a note of apology ... assuming they are, against all odds, literate.
posted by Enyo @ 2:59 pm
2 Comments:
At 11:10 pm,
Michelle said…
Maybe too late but here is an Aussie recipe
http://www.miettas.com.au/Recipes/Patisserie/Australian_Traditional/Apple_Upside_Down_Cake.html
Method
Cream butter with the half cup of sugar. Add vanilla essence, and well beaten egg. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Add this to the butter and egg mixture, moistening with the milk.
Thickly butter the bottom and sides of a square or oblong baking dish or strong cake tin. Pare, quarter and thinly slice apples. Mix together the quarter cup of sugar with the powdered cinnamon. Spread sufficient apple over the bottom of the dish to make a single layer of overlapping slices. Dust with half the cinnamon. Put another layer of apple, and then the rest of the cinnamon. Now turn in the cake mixture, smoothing with a knife if the batter is too thick to lie evenly. Bake in a very moderate oven for about 45 minutes.
When cooked, loosen the sides of the cake, and turn it out carefully on to a dish so that the bottom with its layer of transparent apple slices is uppermost. Serve hot with whipped cream, or with a vanilla flavoured sauce made by beating one part of butter with two parts of castor (or icing) sugar until smooth and creamy. Add vanilla essence.
At 9:50 pm,
Lily said…
Or...you could cover the football in rancid cake mixture (or something noxious from the FB's midden) and boot it back over the fence with a message attached - 'apology accepted'. Make sure you aim for something breakable.
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