Remember I mentioned my Mum's old Marguerite Patten cookbook with the hints and tips cartoons in it? My lovely brother took a photo of them for me so I could share them with you lot:
If you click on the pics for biggness you'll be able to learn what to do if your cake sinks in the middle, or your sauce won't thicken properly. You'll also be able to boggle at the 40+ year old cartoon husband and wife.
I can be bothered to cut the hole out of a sunken cake if it has to look good but for feeding to the family -nah!
Sunken cake? Cut it in half, put sunken half on plate. Fill hole with cream/jam/buttercream/something delicious. Fill cake as normal with cream/jam/buttercream/somethingdelicious. Put unsunken bottom half on top so it looks like an unsunken top. Voila- far, far nicer than one of those 'successful' unsunken cakes as you GET MORE FILLING! Hurrah!
Kateuk makes things at http://www.etsy.com/shop/finkstuff and sometimes she does this too http://www54paintings.blogspot.com/ and also this http://finkstuff.weebly.com/
p.s.
Surely that husband is Nigel Lawson?
I think we should be told....
Kateuk makes things at http://www.etsy.com/shop/finkstuff and sometimes she does this too http://www54paintings.blogspot.com/ and also this http://finkstuff.weebly.com/
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