Christmas wish list

[maggiepie]

If you converted 1/2 dl to 200 ml I am sure your cake got a special flavour  Lucky it wasn't salt.

You are about right:

1dl = 0.423 cups  

3dl = 1.269 cups = a little more than 1 1/5 cups
6dl = 2.538 cups = a little more than 2 1/2 cups

You can use this next time

http://www.lemelange.com/conversion_chart.htm

Thanks, Trond.
Very helpful.

Luckily for me, the extra milk had the effect of turning the cake batter into more of a souffle mix, at least that's the way it behaved.
It rose a lot more than I expected.
Only problem was it built up pressure and spurted when I put the tosca topping on

[maggiepie]

What is 12 grain flour? Is it a kind of grinding measure? But I think you can substitute

12 grain flour is a blend of 12 different types of grain.
It can include  flour ground from wheat, rye, corn, rice, oats, spelt, barley, amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat, millet, and sorghum.

[Hoy]

What is 12 grain flour? Is it a kind of grinding measure? But I think you can substitute

12 grain flour is a blend of 12 different types of grain.
It can include  flour ground from wheat, rye, corn, rice, oats, spelt, barley, amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat, millet, and sorghum.

Oh, I see Nothing like it here as far as I know. Have to buy those separately.

[Anthony Darby]

I have a measuring jug bought from Ikea. What it has in common with most of our recipe books is nothing! Our recipe books have measurements in fl oz and ml. The measuring jug has measurements in dl and cups! 

[Lesley Cox]

I would like Swarovski binoculars - only £1800

Strange name for a snowdrop! 

The price is about right though.

[Anthony Darby]

I thought they only made naf glass trinkets?

[ranunculus]

I thought they only made naf glass trinkets?

Is that Swarovski or Ikea?   

[Anthony Darby]

The measuring jug is plastic Cliff, so if you stir something with a metal whisk you can made fantastic patterns on the inside of it. It is also, when viewed from the side, rhombus shaped (it leans forward), so that makes stirring damn near impossible. Someone has been paid a fortune to design something that doesn't work! Had to go out and buy a pyrex jug!

[Lesley Cox]

The measuring jug is plastic Cliff, so if you stir something with a metal whisk you can made fantastic patterns on the inside of it. It is also, when viewed from the side, rhombus shaped (it leans forward), so that makes stirring damn near impossible. Someone has been paid a fortune to design something that doesn't work! Had to go out and buy a pyrex jug!

Well overall you can't better Pyrex for kitchen ware.Who were the idiots back in the 60s or 70s (or 80s) who designed cutlery with square ends to the handles? Stupid things hurt your hands when you hold them. And the designers of kitchens who put the microwave on a shelf above shoulder height. That's dangerous, as when you lift something hot from a great hot you haven't full control of it. I like mine at bench height thanks.

[Anthony Darby]

And the designers of kitchens who put the microwave on a shelf above shoulder height. That's dangerous, as when you lift something hot from a great hot you haven't full control of it. I like mine at bench height thanks.

The person who designed our current kitchen!

[Hoy]

I have a measuring jug bought from Ikea. What it has in common with most of our recipe books is nothing! Our recipe books have measurements in fl oz and ml. The measuring jug has measurements in dl and cups! 

You know Ikea is Swedish

However 1 dl = 100 ml, not too bad

[Anthony Darby]

However 1 dl = 100 ml, not too bad

[maggiepie]

For a minute I thought I was in the moan moan thread 

Actually, I wouldn't mind a measuring cup with the dls on it.

[Lesley Cox]

And the designers of kitchens who put the microwave on a shelf above shoulder height. That's dangerous, as when you lift something hot from a great hot you haven't full control of it. I like mine at bench height thanks.

The person who designed our current kitchen!

either a tall man or someone at a computer programme who never spends time in a kitchen anyway. All domestic kitchens should be designed by women, since it is still expected that it will be women who do the cooking and the cleaning up afterwards.

[Michael J Campbell]

Lesley, I have had two kitchens fitted in this house in the 30 years I have been here, and both times had to dismiss the designers and design it myself. They design it to look nice but not for operational purposes. I think you are correct,it is quite obvious none of them do any cooking. I did have a restaurant fitted out once and the designers did an excellent job on that one, but I suppose they wouldn't get away with shoddy work on a commercial basis.