Simple cooking skills you've never mastered...

[BrightonBelle]

Sounds like a combination of over-working the mixture and baking the cakes for a little too long.

Are all your ingredients at room temperature? Do you cream the butter and sugar by hand? Do you sieve the flour before folding in to the mixture?

Probably overworking the mixture and baking too long you are right...

I do everything else you said.

We will see in a couple of weeks

BB x

 

[beh]

I have a book just about knife skills, and it really helped.

Which book do you have?

 

[Freefaller]

My mum says she's jealous of my knife skills, which I think is one of the most cool things to hear from my mum. She's a great cook though. My starter in to cooking.
My girlfriend is better at cakes than me, I think mine are good (I would) but hers are special. Mainly as she's very accurate with everything and not windmill in like me ha

I'm in the same boat as you with regards to the other half being a better baker - that's for sure! In fact... need her to make me more!

My father's a great baker - but he as more time to do it than me, though like you my mother's a great cook and I think I must have picked up some of my instinctive cooking from her.

 

[Ahleckz]

Which book do you have?

It's called 'Knife Skills'.
Here it is.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knife-Skill...8304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323262493&sr=8-1

It covers the basics, as well as showing you how to fillet fish, clean lobster, jointing rabbits, everything really.

 

[randomshenans]

I bought this one in London at the weekend:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Kni...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323266445&sr=1-2

I was going to give it to the mother for Christmas but it's a nice little book!

 

[The_blue]

Yorkshire puddings.

I'm a qualified chef and ran kitchens for 10 years but hardly ever made a good yorkshire

That job was for the comis or even the pot washer

Just made out it was below me