.Wilier.
One of Freddy's beloved
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Last night myself and my 2 daughters (4 and 1) decided we would bake their mummy a cake for Valentines. Mrs Wil works on a Thursday evening, so whilst being a little early, it seemed like a good time to bake a cake and keep it a suprise until Saturday.
So, after eldest had been to tennis, we trawled down to Tesco, bought the bits-n-bobs required (eggs and a Jane Asher Lemon Drizzle Cake packet mix ) and went home to bake.
The girls got washed up and I laid all the ingredients out with the bowls etc. Eldest put the mix in the bowl, followed by 2 eggs (youngest was "helping" by eating anything she could reach), some water and then 1 3/4 fl/oz of oil. Odd I thought, must be to keep the cake nice and moist, so I grabbed the bottle of Olive oil, measured it out (thinking, blimey, thats an odd smell) and Freya poured it in and started mixing.
After a good bit of stirring and mixing, Freya tasted it, spat it out and screemed "AAHHHGGGggggggg IT BURNS" and dived into the sink to wash her mouth out. I gave it a bit of a taste, and by God she was right, it really did burn. Checking the Olive oil bottle again, it turned out to have a clove of garlic sat in the bottom................bugger.
Seems as though garlic and lemon, when mixed make a rather nasty (and probably corrosive) burning mixture which undoubtedly would make a splendid cake, had I not thrown it in the bin in a rage.
We ended up making a victoria sponge with flour and stuff Looks good though
So, after eldest had been to tennis, we trawled down to Tesco, bought the bits-n-bobs required (eggs and a Jane Asher Lemon Drizzle Cake packet mix ) and went home to bake.
The girls got washed up and I laid all the ingredients out with the bowls etc. Eldest put the mix in the bowl, followed by 2 eggs (youngest was "helping" by eating anything she could reach), some water and then 1 3/4 fl/oz of oil. Odd I thought, must be to keep the cake nice and moist, so I grabbed the bottle of Olive oil, measured it out (thinking, blimey, thats an odd smell) and Freya poured it in and started mixing.
After a good bit of stirring and mixing, Freya tasted it, spat it out and screemed "AAHHHGGGggggggg IT BURNS" and dived into the sink to wash her mouth out. I gave it a bit of a taste, and by God she was right, it really did burn. Checking the Olive oil bottle again, it turned out to have a clove of garlic sat in the bottom................bugger.
Seems as though garlic and lemon, when mixed make a rather nasty (and probably corrosive) burning mixture which undoubtedly would make a splendid cake, had I not thrown it in the bin in a rage.
We ended up making a victoria sponge with flour and stuff Looks good though