Friendship cake query

[Green Rosie]

I'm making the friendship cake to the recipe here but there is what I think is a typo on the recipe:-

Day 7 - ADD to 1 part - 2 cups (500g/8oz) SR flour
3/4 cup (180mls/5ish fl oz)Vegetable Oil
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp mixed spice
2 beaten eggs
1 cup(250g/4oz) sugar

Am I right in thinking that the ounces for flour and sugar should read 16oz and 8oz respectively? In an earlier part of the recipe 1 cup of flour is 8oz and half a cup of sugar is 4oz.

[Green Aura]

500g is certainly nearer to 1lb/16oz than 8oz but I'm not sure if 2 cups is that much! Might be worth weighing 2 cups of flour - they're about 225 -250ml but not necessarily that heavy.

[snapdragon]

are they american cups? or just tea cups?
I have the american cup measures - I'll go check
brb

[snapdragon]

hmmm
on my scales one cup of flour = 110gm and so is a Half cup of sugar

[Green Rosie]

The recipe says the cup doesn't really matter exactly what size. I wanted to check that in the first part of the recipe you add 1 cup or approx 8oz and in the second double that ie 2 cups or approx 16oz - the recipe says 2 cups but keeps the ounces at 8oz which I think is a typo.

[Green Aura]

What I meant was that the 16oz looks like the typo. All the measurements should roughly tally and 2 cups would be much closer to 8oz than 16.

[Millymollymandy]

Will have to bring this to Andy's attention! I would follow the amount of cups given as it's the conversions into the metric/imperial that are wrong, so whatever weight two cups of flour amounts to, is what I would put in.

Plus one cup of sugar would weigh more than one cup of flour, so the original 4oz for half a cup of sugar and 8oz for a cup of flour can't be right either. And also granulated sugar weighs more than castor sugar.

Which is why I hate American recipes!

[Green Rosie]

I think you are right there MMM and Green Aura. I'm going to start it today and use cups.

[Millymollymandy]

How did it work out Rosie? We need to edit the typos in the recipe.

[oldfella]

The OH tried the recipe last week using just cups, and it worked out fine, so we had one cake with chopped nuts and raisins, and one with chopped fruit, very nice, and last evening, had trifle and custard made from the left overs, so this week I think the plan is a Banana cake, and a plain cake and we will try it with marmalade.

Thanks Andys Mum (Not you Andy, your Mum)

[Green Rosie]

I used cups and it was fine, although a little dry(which could be my oven). I have not had the time to continue the cake and I must admit I did find the instructions for what to do when given or left over with a cup of mixture:

Friendship cake starter recipe

Use a large mixing bowl

1 cup (250g/8oz) SR flour
1 cup (300g/10 fl oz or half pint) milk
1/2 cup (125g/4 oz)sugar
2 tsp dried active yeast

Mix all together then leave 2 days

Continue as below

IF MIXTURE HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU

Day 1 - Place in a large mixing bowl and cover with a tea towel
Day 2 - Leave well alone
Day 3 - FEED - 1 cup (250g/8oz) SR flour
1 cup(300g/10 fl oz/half pint) milk
1/2 cup (125g/4 oz) sugar
stir and cover

Are the 2 days after you have first mixed the ingredients the same 2 days as in the next bit of the recipe? So if you have been given the mixture or are using your "left-over third" do you leave it untouched for 2 days or feed it straight away?

[Millymollymandy]

Yikes it all sounds too complicated for me so I'll ask Andy if he knows.

Just putting a link to it on the main site as that version is an old one. I couldn't find this on the main site except by doing a search as recipes aren't listed anymore, just come up as blog entries so impossible to find something unless you scroll forever or know it is there to search for it!

http://www.selfsufficientish.com/main/b ... er-recipe/

[oldfella]

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm28 ... 010053.jpg


Fresh this morning, one for the neighbour, and one for the Oldfella

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[Andy Hamilton]

Ok, I have to put my hands up and say that I have not made this recipe before. I was asked for it by someone and then given a recipe. I don't think my mum has the recipe any more either. But I have edited it to make more sense. http://www.selfsufficientish.com/main/b ... er-recipe/

IS this how you did it oldfella?

[Green Rosie]

Cheers Andy - that makes more sense. I made the first cake OK but wasn't exactly sure how to continue with the 1/3 new starter. I'll start again and see how I get on