Tomorrow morning I will deliver my baked entries to the Nice Ladies at
the Minnesota State Fair fairgrounds.

In theory, I will enter a chocolate Bundt� cake, an apple pie, a mixed
berry pie, girl brownies, white bread, boy brownies, PB cookies, CC
cookies, and fruit muffins.

I started with the chocolate cake first. It's an interesting recipe
(one year it placed second or third or something) and I decided to enter
it again. I mixed the batter and poured it carefully into my greased
and floured Bundt� pan. Oven on, pan in, at about 20 minutes it had
risen to the top of the pan. I did not open the oven. At about 24
minutes I looked again and it had fallen and was sort of boiling. At 35
minutes I opened the oven to let the smoke out and to empty the damned
pan (with stuck on baked chocolate batter) and put the remover stuff on
it to soak. I'm not wanting to scratch this pan, OK?

As I re-read the recipe and re-played the making, I realized I likely
would not have had this problem if I had put the flour in the batter.
And, no, I didn't miss it because it is a thin batter when it goes into
the pan.

A word to the wise.

Now, back to kneading the bread dough and making pie dough.

Light a bonfire.

It's cold and raining. I love it!
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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com - Plum jelly from the beginning