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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
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- Subject: Re: Black Death Birthdays (Recipe Included)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 04:23:15 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1992Nov20.001911.9314@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, mar@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Mar) writes:
- >"That's great, except I still don't know what a bundt pan is, because I
- >don't know what a tube pan is, and don't really know what an angel's-food
- >cake is like.
-
- >"Still," DM raises a finger in an effort to show he's not a complete
- >idiot, "I'm going to try Merri's recipe this weekend, using whatever cake
- >tin I have available. I assume a tube pan is a short, fat cylinder with
- >a flat base.
-
- StM says, "Er, no. Let's see. It would probably be asking to much to hope
- that you know what a pineapple upside-down cake looks like? That's another
- kind of cake you bake in a tube pan. Ok, let's try for a physical description:
- Take an upside-down hollow truncated cone, about cylindrical pan, about 9
- inches in diameter at the top, about 6 inches in diameter at the bottom, and
- about 6 inches high. In the middle of this, put a truncated right-side-up
- hollow cone, about 6 inches high, 3 inches in diameter at the base and about
- 1.5 inches in diameter at the top. Connect the bottoms of the conical frustra
- with a flat bottom. What you've got is a pan with a tube sticking up throught
- the middle of the bottom of it (the reason we use conical frustra rather than
- cylinders is that this makes it easier to get the cake out of the pan in one
- piece). That's a tube pan. Now, scale it down a little bit, scallop the
- outside, and round off the bottom, and you've got a bundt pan. You can't
- easily substitute a regular cake pan for it, unfortunately. They've got
- different volumes, and different surface-to-volume ratios. This means that
- proper oven temperature and baking time are going to be different. If you're
- quite experienced at baking cakes, then it might be reasonable to try using a
- regular cake pan, adjusting the temp and time according to your previous baking
- experiences. But if you're not that experienced, you could end up with
- something that resembles something you'd put in the bar-b-cue and light more
- than it does a cake.
-
- >I'll probably use something like that. Watch out for the
- >success reports from a chocolate-bloated DM!"
-
- Good luck with it.
-