Or why you might not want to eat one of my cakes ;-).
I'd watched enough Bake Off to learn that store bought jam is too sweet for cake filling so I decided to buy fresh raspberries and cook my own. After it's finished on the stove, you need to push it through a fine sieve to remove all the seeds. This was harder than it looked on tv.
I had a small strainer I'd planned to use, but quickly realized I needed a larger one. Well, that's not a problem. I have one up at the barn. I use them to scoop hay and other detritus from the water tanks. A thorough washing with soap and hot water and it was sparkling clean.
After working all the seeds out of the raspberries, I had just as much trouble washing the seeds from the strainer. I washed and scrubbed and finally took the spray nozzle to it...and a bunch of hay (and possibly other detritus) flushed out from under the shiny clean rim (!).
There was no way I was going to waste re-make the fresh raspberries. It had boiled on the stove. Surely there's a five minute rule if boiling is involved. I kept my mouth shut...and no one died.
I have since bought a set of dedicated kitchen strainers ;-).
7 comments:
I love it!
Too funny and am so very glad you now have a set of various size Kitchen strainers!!
Hugs!
I had a botanist friend who made a medium for growing mosses and so on from soil and organic matter (to be polite) blended in the kitchen blender. Once he started sharing a kitchen with his partner a dedicated kitchen blender was added so that the old blender could be just for moss.
Ceci
A little hay never hurt anyone ;0)
that looks delicious with or without the hay
I promised to bring my mother's favorite cake to her 90th birthday party for family (mostly) and despite having a 7 hour drive I decided to wait until the day of and ice it there. When I grabbed the sugar for the cake there was only enough for the recipe and some teeny, tiny ants! I picked them out and kept my mouth closed.
Hay is just like vegetables I am certain! Such a pretty cake!
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