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@tinyponies8034 3 жыл бұрын
My 92yo grandma once said to me, “If your Angel cake doesn’t fly out of the pan on its own, rip it up into a trifle and carry it to church because it obviously needs a little more prayin’ over.” Lol
@judisewnsew6514 3 жыл бұрын
Love it 😀
@whogirl104 3 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@ladyjanewriter 3 жыл бұрын
Ha! Or, similar, as per my Gramma and Mom, if your Angel Food Cake falls in the middle, fill the hole with whipped cream, chill it till firmed up a bit, slice it, and uh pretend you meant to do that.
@cathdodd5072 3 жыл бұрын
😁
@joanhoffman3702 3 жыл бұрын
I love it.
@WillowTreePottery 3 жыл бұрын
There were six kids in our family and everyone's birthday was celebrated with a Fanny Farmer cake . We used to take turns with the crank mixer. My mom alwasy told us we had to remain absolutely quiet while it was in the oven or we'd ruin the cake. Likely some of the only peace and quiet she got with 6 kids running around.
@Rose-jz6sx 3 жыл бұрын
Your mom's a genius lol
@anti-ethniccleansing465 3 жыл бұрын
I love it! Lol.
@valfletcher9285 3 жыл бұрын
My grandmother told me that too! I still believe it...when there is a cake in the oven, BE QUIET or it will FALL FLAT! :)
@mysticmeadow9116 3 жыл бұрын
My mom said the same thing! Don't slam the door, don't peek in the oven. Useful tips to be sure, for a souffle, but I'm not buying that for a box mix. 😂
@Nothingreallytoseehere 3 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness that's brilliant Haha. Thank you for sharing.
@Caeleinn 3 жыл бұрын
Several years ago, I was the main cook for a medieval feast, where I served approximately 100 people multiple courses throughout the evening. The final dessert that I served was toasted angel food cake, layered with whipped marscapone cheese and topped with a warm fruit compote of preserved pears and figs. It was the most decadent and delicious thing I have ever put into my mouth, and the exclamations of joy from the dining area still make me smile to this day. That said, just a plain slice of angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream is always a winner, as well.
@nanny4god 2 жыл бұрын
Would you share recipes
@CynnaAel 2 жыл бұрын
I would love to know what your meal courses were. 💜💜💜
@Caeleinn 2 жыл бұрын
@@CynnaAel For the starters, I had home cooked bread with two butters, honey and lemon, and a home made herbed soft cheese for the High Table, along with stuffed mushroom caps, frozen sugared grapes, and a green sallat with herb vinegrette. Second course was a mixed meat pie (beef, chicken, dates, assorted spices), with two veggies and a starch. I'm sorry, I can't remember what those were right now. Palate cleanser was Rose and Violet flavored ices (sorbets, basically). Third course was a whole slow baked chicken (per table, so about 25 chickens), flavored with garlic and rosemary, with another two veggies and a starch. The meal was capped off with the toasted angel food cake.
@liviloo87 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing!!!!
@Tsuruchi_420 Жыл бұрын
it's always cool to have imortal vampires in the comments sharing experiences from their youth
@leumas75 3 жыл бұрын
My wife’s family has a “famous” (within their family, at least) recipe for a chocolate cake that calls for - very specifically - a 5¢ Hershey bar.
@direfranchement 3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@yata3826 3 жыл бұрын
what’s the recipe?
@vivianimbriale3446 3 жыл бұрын
My family calls it Icebox Cake. It is awesome.
@leumas75 3 жыл бұрын
@@yata3826 I, as 1) a male, and 2) a non-blood relative, cannot obtain access to the recipe as long as my wife lives. Seriously.
@lordgarion514 3 жыл бұрын
That's because a Hershey bar cost a nickel from 1900-1969, when they got rid of it and made a bigger bar for a dime.
@frocat5163 3 жыл бұрын
Pro Tip: Find a glass soda bottle and clean it thoroughly. When your angel food cake comes out of the oven, the hole in the middle of the pan should be able to slip over the top of the soda bottle and suspend the cake farther above the counter / table, allowing it to cool a little faster and helping to prevent condensation on the cake's top. I learned that from a baker who has won multiple awards for her angel food cake...my mom.
@shawna620 3 жыл бұрын
That's how my mom always cooled the cake!
@annbrookens945 3 жыл бұрын
This is how we cooled angel food cake when I was growing up!
@emitaylor4094 3 жыл бұрын
I tried that! It lasted about a minute and then fell over, throwing chunks of cake all over the floor 😆😭
@katarh 3 жыл бұрын
Mine also fell over. It was after that incident that I invested in a pan with the feet for real.
@christineh14 3 жыл бұрын
My angel cake pan, like the one Max uses in this video, has three little feet on the upper rim. After baking the pan can be flipped over and set on the counter. The feet keep it off the counter but more securely than a soda bottle.
@alliewhitlock621 3 жыл бұрын
Things I never would have guessed in a million years but now my life is now infinitely better for knowing; Max does an EXCELLENT Dr. Evil impersonation 😂
@rootypoots 3 жыл бұрын
The Julia Roberts impression wasn’t quite as good, but I’ll let it slide.
@alliewhitlock621 3 жыл бұрын
@@rootypoots 🤣
@alfonsusgabrielj.alegado1187 3 жыл бұрын
He just needed to do the pinkie thing.
@wyattphillips379 3 жыл бұрын
Brooo on god, who is this man
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 жыл бұрын
Not entirely surprising. He's a real thespian.
@relativisticvel 2 жыл бұрын
The reason she adds it at the end, is that if you add it early, the eggs take a lot longer to take stiff peaks. With modern tech, that isn't an issue, but if you are hand beating it, it makes a huge difference. (I did some meringues by hand, and found this out the hard way).
@sadjaxx Жыл бұрын
Thank you, that makes perfect sense. I remember hand cranking the old rotary beater - it sure grew muscles!
@relativisticvel Жыл бұрын
@@sadjaxx I did it with a fork. It was intense.
@jasminetea2653 Жыл бұрын
@@relativisticvelthat sounds like death ☠️
@FreterP Жыл бұрын
@@relativisticvel Are you some kind of masochist?
@relativisticvel Жыл бұрын
@@FreterP worse. Was by hand with a fork, not even a wisk. I was a poor college student at the time.
@alejandronasifsalum8201 3 жыл бұрын
Ok, I've been thinking about this for a while, but after this video I REALLY need to tell you about Petrona C. de Gandulfo, popularly known in Argentina and Latin America simply as "Doña Petrona". She wrote a huge, very comprehensive and very successful cookbook, first published in 1933 and still in printing with well over a hundred editions to date. Her book was too a very common gift to newly wed women and was passed from generation to generation of home cooks. I have a copy at home from 1974 which belonged to my boyfriend's great-aunt. Later, in 1952, she became a TV cook, and later had her own show which was also very successful and everybody remembers. She's been called the Argentinean Julia Child, although she started a couple of decades before Julia... she actually was kind of a late Fannie and an early Julia. You got to get to know her.
@sergioalejandrogonzalez9755 Жыл бұрын
Doña Petrona was THE cook bible not only for her generation but to many generation that came after her. Now in 2023, there are more than 123 editions of her book with more than 3 millions books sold worldwide.
@jeff-crankyxer1931 3 жыл бұрын
"Add enough nutmeg..." Townsends: You rang?
@fernbedek6302 3 жыл бұрын
Beat me too it.
@fatrobin72 3 жыл бұрын
And that's enough nutmeg. *Carries on grating for another minute*
@lhfirex 3 жыл бұрын
Enough nutmeg for Townsends makes me think of that Bender quote about cooking: "I only added 60% of the lethal dose!"
@frostincubus4045 3 жыл бұрын
Dammit, I read it with Lurch's voice (the 60's sitcom version)
@zorro456 3 жыл бұрын
Alton Brown enters the conversation.
@tegansutherland7299 3 жыл бұрын
I learned to cook from Fannie Farmer! (The Marion Cunningham updated version from the 80s but still) I also have a bunch of the early editions and she's always very solid. Not the most adventurous recipes, but if it's in there, it WORKS. Always happy to see my gal getting the love she deserves. :)
@petraarkian7720 3 жыл бұрын
Same! I'm only 22 so I was surprised it is so old.
@mirandamom1346 3 жыл бұрын
My husband and I were given a Fannie Farmer as a wedding present in 1985. We haven’t cracked it open much since the advent of the internet, but it occupies a warm spot in my heart.
@sandralouth3103 3 жыл бұрын
I have a copy from the 1940', and one from the 80's. I actually like the older version better. The more modern one left out several of my favorite recipes.
@michmirich 3 жыл бұрын
@@sandralouth3103 same. I miss our old book
@LiRaby5173 3 жыл бұрын
@@mirandamom1346 funny I still have my wedding present fanny farmer from 1985 just not the same husband... he couldn't remember he was married
@wodthehunter8145 11 ай бұрын
When I was a teen, There were always random ingredients in the house. Id just get bored and make something. And most of those recipes were from Fannies Cookbook. I Love how detailed it is, there is an index for measurements, you are never confused about the next step, and it even has substitutions when they are applicable. The woman literally taught me how to cook almost a hundred years after she died. When the internet was a little less mature, her cookbook was still largely better than anything else you could buy, or find online, Id say until like 2010 ish. Thats a hell of an educational book if you are the go to for 100 years.
@JoeMama410 3 жыл бұрын
My grandmother’s chocolate cake recipe calls for “butter the size of an egg”
@solmoman 2 жыл бұрын
Tbh it makes about as much sense as the brits meassuring in stones and feet
@YeshuaKingMessiah 6 ай бұрын
Egg size was standardized It’s bout 2T
@Scoochmcbooch 3 жыл бұрын
That "I was right!" is ripe for future cutaway shots like the hardtack ended up being 😂
@darksunrise957 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was going to write.
@princessjellyfish6057 3 жыл бұрын
I want a gif of that
@Amcsae 3 жыл бұрын
Timestamp, please?
@juliakiggins4085 3 жыл бұрын
@@Amcsae 14:25 :)
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 жыл бұрын
Soon enough, the writer of this comment will be able to say "I was right!"
@FlameG102 3 жыл бұрын
My italian aunt once left her husband in charge of making pasta. He asked how much flour, and she mentioned to him in dialect, something that roughly equates to a big handful. When they ended up with a metric ton of pasta, she called him out, that she only told him a handful. And he said "that's what i added!" and then they realized. he has large man hands. His handful was way bigger than hers.
@argella1300 2 жыл бұрын
My parents have the same exact problem! 🤣
@beeta137 Жыл бұрын
I have a similar problem. Traditionally, my family (and most Viet people, I think) measure water for our rice using our fingers, ignoring the marks on the inside of the rice cooker. My rice varied wildly - one day dry, the other soggy - because I am tremendously bad at measuring things by eye and my fingers are short and stubby. I eventually worked out a ratio using the rice measuring cup and now have consistent rice. =))))))
@Jane-ow7sr Жыл бұрын
@@beeta137 who knew the best solution was to do it the correct way lol
@tesssanders7993 2 жыл бұрын
I grew up on a working cotton farm (about 65 years+ ago) no running water or electricity. Being sickly didn't matter I still had to work so I worked in the kitchen with Grandma who taught me so much. Nothing was measured ever. Biscuits were made with handfuls of flour and pinches of this & that! Always perfect! Guess when you cook so often for so many it just becomes easy. Great food because everything was grown on the farm never went to a store. There's one phrase you never heard on the farm "I'm bored!"
@MissingmyBabbu Жыл бұрын
That's a phrase I also learned to keep to myself- "I'm bored", because my mum or another relative would FIND something for me to do, and it was rarely something fun. Helping in the kitchen and garden (one of the few chores I enjoyed), sorting socks, you name it. When I used to get fussy in church as a little kid, mum handed me a baby wipe and told me to make myself useful and wipe down the pews to save the preacher and ushers work later. So I'd hobble around, leg braces and walker frame click-clacking as I went from pew to pew, wiping at the armrests and whatever bits I could reach without bothering anyone or toppling over. The church is long gone, and I'm not a kid anymore, but I still try and help in the kitchen and garden when my health allows it. Not as often as I'd like right now, but seeing my folks enjoy my cooking is its own sort of medicine.
@annastevens1526 Жыл бұрын
I've started turning captions on during my rewatches of Max's vids after somebody flagged the fact that Jose's sense of humour was sometimes reflected in them, and gotta say I think the big *monch* at the end here when Max starts hand-stuffing cake in is a lovely extra giggle to round out the episode! 😂 Really, really impressed by the work the guys put in to make sure accurate CC's are uploaded to Tasting History vids. That's a remarkably rare thing, and in my experience has tended to be the hallmark of a really superlatively good creator/creator team?
@BobBob-wi6ct 3 жыл бұрын
After eating an entire angel food cake I do not feel light enough to fly but it sure is delicious.
@sarahrosen4985 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, then I add some cream cheese frosting and strawberries and the only things flying are the numbers on my scale…
@user-xr4jy5vv4f 3 жыл бұрын
I like to eat it with my bare hands
@jinagibson6818 3 жыл бұрын
Keep trying!
@jinagibson6818 3 жыл бұрын
@@sarahrosen4985 jello and cool whip mmmm
@sazji 3 жыл бұрын
After that, even an angel would need to take a dump to rise back to heaven…
@lynetteschmied6096 3 жыл бұрын
I love how max has a different Pokémon stuffie in the background of every video ❤️
@beepboop204 3 жыл бұрын
i had to explain this to my mom, but now she enjoys looking at the Pokemon, really adds to the shows charm
@chasedbyvvolves9256 3 жыл бұрын
They're always related to whatever he's making too
@beepboop204 3 жыл бұрын
@@chasedbyvvolves9256 so ive been playing checkers while he has been playing chess.....
@SkipTheKip 3 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to see his whole collection!
@willek1335 3 жыл бұрын
@@beepboop204 Your avatar
@slwrabbits 3 жыл бұрын
My favorite thing about angel food cake? The base recipe is non-dairy. Finally a cake that I'm not allergic to!
@sianifairy9070 2 жыл бұрын
....and it's not so hard to make it gluten free too....and still tasting like proper angel food cake!
@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын
@@sianifairy9070 - HOW do you do that? I love angel food cake, but my GI doc put me on a FODMAP diet which means no grains like wheat, barley, or a few others that contain gluten (gluten is not the problem, that's a protein - a carbohydrate that comes along with gluteny grains is the problem). I hate the sandy-grainy texture of so many gluten-free baked goods.
@FreterP Жыл бұрын
@@MossyMozart With these meringue-based, airy baked goods you basically don’t want to develop any gluten so you can use gluten-free flour no problem, it won’t change the texture much!
@ParliamentOfOwls309 11 ай бұрын
@@MossyMozart when I make gluten free stuff I usually use a cup-for-cup flour (king arthur has a pretty good one, and the wegmans store brand isn't bad either), the texture isn't gritty but cookies and stuff tend to be crumblier-- check the ingredients for what mix of grains they're using though just to be sure
@madelyn3037 3 жыл бұрын
OMG I LOVE FANNIE FARMER. I have been using her banana bread recipe since I was 8. Still have it memorized. I can't believe one of my cooking heroes featured another of my cooking heroes and IM DYING.
@beckyheydemann1332 3 жыл бұрын
Angel food cake dipped in custard and sautéed like French toast and served with ice cream and warm maple syrup is also very nice.
@Lauren.E.O 3 жыл бұрын
That...I want to try that.
@mountainmolly2726 3 жыл бұрын
That sounds amazing!
@kathyhester3066 3 жыл бұрын
Yum!!!!
@CroneLife1 3 жыл бұрын
My hips gained a pound on each side just from reading that. Definitely trying it. :D
@zenkakuji3776 3 жыл бұрын
That sounds intriguing.... And gosh darn delicious!
@rs8751 3 жыл бұрын
Yartzeit candles are incredibly standardized as only a couple companies make them, and they have to last for pretty much exactly 24 hours. If you get the ones in glass jars, they're endlessly reusable as juice glasses, stem vases, etc. My mother and grandmother kept them as glassware, and I do to! It doesn't surprise me at all that they'd be a standard measuring tool.
@sazji 3 жыл бұрын
I think I need some of these.
@ashkitt7719 3 жыл бұрын
Somehow I didn't know that they were a standard measurement but I'm not surprised. And probably about the right size for some Manichewitz.
@aryahavinfun5682 3 жыл бұрын
Filled to the brim, I get exactly 4 fluid ounces of water into a flat bottomed yahrzeit candle glass, but the kind with the stepped bottom hold exactly 5 ounces. ymmv.
@rs8751 3 жыл бұрын
@@aryahavinfun5682 That's not too bad considering that the general variability between different made for purpose measuring cups can also be pretty big.
@KayElayempea 2 жыл бұрын
My mother-in-law measures things by the coffee cup and she uses particular ones that I think hold 6oz.
@carolj2013 3 жыл бұрын
I've made this cake from scratch - when I was 10! Mom was scared to death - but it turned out awesome!
@uleubner 3 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking this cake would be incredible with Nostradamus's sour cherry jelly...
@shanicestella2226 3 жыл бұрын
Yes , Because the tanginess of Nostradamus cherry jelly is gonna go well with this cake
@ashtrix8413 2 жыл бұрын
Mmm yum!
@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын
@uleubner - Yes! Good memory. For those who don't remember, it's found in a "Tasting History" video.
@Lurker1954 3 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager, my Mother started working full-time. One day, she tossed me a copy of the "Fannie Farmer Cooking School Cook Book". This was the best thing that a new cook could ask for. Half the book was dedicated to how to cook. The lay out of the recipes spoiled me for others.
@bevpisko8247 3 жыл бұрын
My Mom's wedding gift from her mother was "The Mystery Chef's Own Cookbook". Sort of the idiot's guide to cooking. Told you everything, right down to what to buy for a meal and when and how to prep and cook everything. I still make the cinnamon bun recipe.
@jjudy5869 3 жыл бұрын
Mine is a 1963 Pillsbury's Family Cook Book, that the library was throwing out because it was stained. It tells you how to set a Russian service.
@Zuraneve 3 жыл бұрын
Mine was Betty Crocker's Big Red Cookbook. I loved it so much, I gifted a copy to a friend when she mentioned she and her husband were learning to cook so they'd stop eating takeout so much. My copy has long since been lost to a fire, unfortunately.
@anti-ethniccleansing465 3 жыл бұрын
@@Zuraneve My mom still has that. I snatched one of the books of her Crocker 1986 binder sets that has all the sweets recipes in it though lol. She never cooks out of that set and prefers the older book.
@LadyintheGreenHat 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Betty Crocker red binder! I picked up one at a garage sale just after high school, and even though I knew how to cook from three semesters of home economics cooking classes in school, I learned more about baking from it. I'm much more of a baker than a cook.
@Lauren.E.O 3 жыл бұрын
Them: “Do you prefer angel’s food cake or devil’s food cake?” Me: “Yes.” Them: “That wasn’t-“ Me: (already putting both on a plate)
@joyherting3705 3 жыл бұрын
Just grab both cakes and run. What is this sharing of cake? LOL
@OlEgSaS32 3 жыл бұрын
accurate
@annbrookens945 3 жыл бұрын
Me, too!!!
@Keeperoffyre 3 жыл бұрын
i just like cake.
@CinimodNorton 3 жыл бұрын
Lady after my own heart. Yes, that's the way we should do it. Can I have some strawberries on my Angle food?
@linshannon4480 3 жыл бұрын
The timeliness of this episode is kismet! I'm making a trifle tomorrow, and I wanted angel food cake, but I haven't a recipe for it. I resigned myself to pound cake, but then VOILA! you posted this! Thank you, thank you, thank you. The lemon mousse is done, and the berries are all prepped, I just needed the cake! And now I have a recipe to follow. Thanks, Max.
@la_roobie 3 жыл бұрын
I love that this was today's video. I made my first ever angel food cake today, and it was a chocolate one to boot! I wondered about the history of it a bit while making it, and watched this while spreading chocolate whipped cream on it. 😋 Incidentally, I made custard a few days ago and found my recipe while looking for something to do with so many egg whites...
@anti-ethniccleansing465 3 жыл бұрын
If you still have some of your custard, I just saw a comment that it is excellent to make a French toast out of your angel food cake by dipping it in custard, frying it, and serve it with maple syrup and ice cream.
@Smallpotato1965 3 жыл бұрын
as a Dutch person who grew up with recipes measuring in grams instead of volume, the American cup and table/teaspoon 'bake by volume' system was mindblowingly AWESOME!!! It's so much more intuitive, since I can easily 'guesstimate' how much a quarter cup of sugar is, but nobody, not even those who grew up with the measure-by-weight system, can handily guess how much a hundred grams of sugar is, or a hundred grams of flour, or a hundred grams of butter. Only professional cooks can do so. But even a child will understand how much something by volume is. Which is why Hannah Glasse's cookbook ('take butter the size of a walnut and as much thyme as will cover a sixpence') was such a huge success: no fancy measuring device needed, just common sense! Hurrah for the measuring cup!!
@antilogism 3 жыл бұрын
Volume works great and is probably better for a student or when on a budget. I find weight faster today but when I started cooking, 50 years ago, you needed a very costly scale (really a balance) that was also cumbersome so no one used it in a home. Today inexpensive, mass-produced load-cell/resistive-bridge based digital scales are available that instantly resolve a gram and take several kilos. Cooking by volume is still a valuable skill though.
@violetskies14 3 жыл бұрын
I can usually tell by feel how many grams something is but I grew up cooking and it's something I practiced. It's a handy skill for winning things at summer fetes lol. Measuring by volume works well for breads and crumbles where it's a texture you're looking for and you can add more of an ingredient I've found but I hate it for cakes and will convert everything to grams because it's so easy for outside factors to mess with.
@kunolacarai 3 жыл бұрын
The argument could be made was that Escoffier made cookery an art form in the public’s eye, while Fanny Farmer made it a science.
@SymphonyZach 3 жыл бұрын
That probably is the start of dietary modern science. Sure, militaries knew what to feed their men for millennia, going back 4,000 years, but amount wise it wasn’t really known.
@tyrant-den884 3 жыл бұрын
I like the sound of that.
@Katharina-rp7iq 3 жыл бұрын
I'd actually say she turned cooking into a painting by numbers kind of thing - you had the lines drawn out and colors clearly defined so 100 ppl could cook the same recipe and as long as they didn't freestyle all 100 would turn out the same. And if you just got access to a real oven and such after your family's ancestors cooked in a big iron pot on an open fire by throwing in whatever they had as poor ppl while 90% of their diet consisted of cheap bread before that is a huge step. And face it most workers in the 19th century lived off of whatever veggies they got, lots of bread and very rarely a properly cooked meal because most didn't have anything resembling a kitchen. In the countryside things were a bit better, but those ppl had no idea what to do with, oh, chili or nutmeg for example.
@arokh72 3 жыл бұрын
@@Katharina-rp7iq the Rob Ross of cooking you could say :)
@JerryB507 3 жыл бұрын
Baking, curing and fermenting are all chemistry; the rest is all art.
@applegal3058 3 жыл бұрын
My grandmother's recipes were basically "add enough of it until it looks good" lol I like to follow recipes, but I often play with them too to make them my own.
@Yobydobie 3 жыл бұрын
Idk why but I’m so invested in this channel. I love the content, but above that, I really just love seeing you do what you love! The growth this channel has amassed hay makes my heart sing.
@Initiallyleo 3 жыл бұрын
“Domestic science” sounds pretty cool, and it’s definitely accurate for some of the experiments that still go on in home kitchens.
@SweSuf 3 жыл бұрын
Actually, some of what's going on in a modern kitchen is more akin to alchemy than science... 🤔
@Nightriser271828 3 жыл бұрын
IIRC, it was the basis for the home economics classes your high school may have had. The idea was partly to bring housewives into the modern era by teaching them more scientific approaches.
@Rose-jz6sx 3 жыл бұрын
They just changed the name to home economics
@Justanotherconsumer 3 жыл бұрын
I reject a lot of hypotheses in my kitchen!
@Firegen1 3 жыл бұрын
It's about this point that I realise my Tuesday late afternoons aren't complete without some food history. (I'm UK based). It's a very nice realisation.
@dustbargames6371 3 жыл бұрын
A fellow UK based viewer :D
@Firegen1 3 жыл бұрын
@@dustbargames6371 👋🏾 Good day!
@Lionstar16 3 жыл бұрын
A fellow UK viewer here too 👋
@Firegen1 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lionstar16 👋🏾 Good day to you as well!
@fedra76it 3 жыл бұрын
Italian, here. Almost the same time zone, same sensation of how better a Tuesday afternoon gets when Max's video are released 😀
@DoomCabbit 3 жыл бұрын
We love a disabled woman finding success and going down in history for it
@rebeccaboyer9924 3 жыл бұрын
Yas we Stan
@violetskies14 3 жыл бұрын
As a disabled woman who loves cooking I have a new idol.
@sonorasgirl 2 жыл бұрын
Yuuus, I am so happy Max is giving her her due
@FireflyOnTheMoon Жыл бұрын
she had a limp. Nothing more
@visassess8607 Жыл бұрын
No
@nilus2k 3 жыл бұрын
Love the idea of giving a cook book as a wedding gift. My mom has a tradition where she gets a vintage copy of The New Antoinette Pope school cookbook and gives it to each new couple as a wedding gift. My grandma use to say it was the most important book in her home because “If you try cooking with the Bible you are gonna starve”. Grandma was awesome :)
@mountainmolly2726 3 жыл бұрын
Fannie Farmer and Joy of Cooking were my bibles when I was learning to cook as a little girl. I still have both and plan to give copies to my son when he moves out on his own. Also, you need to try grilled angel food cake. Just lightly brown it on the grill and serve with an assortment of fruits and toppings. Delish!
@adambrickley9088 3 жыл бұрын
Ha. Having raised show chickens as a kid I'm amazed they marketed eggs by breed. I could never tell much difference (it's more what you feed them) - and having raised Turkish Sultans for show, I'm amazed they actually sold the eggs specifically (those are incredibly fancy ornamental show birds with feathered head-crests and feathered legs)
@Bellavoce29 3 жыл бұрын
I can definitely tell the difference between our Marans and other bird eggs (larger, and somehow richer? Even though they have the same diet as our other girls). The bantam eggs are also nice, because they’re so small and rich, but I can see why someone would prefer Marans eggs versus other breeds!
@bookmouse2719 3 жыл бұрын
In Colorado at the feed store they sold only the meat breeds cause it would get too cold for skinny egg layers chickens. I had a white Orpington and Barred Rock Chickens, strictly pets.
@KayElayempea 2 жыл бұрын
I never can tell the difference between my chickens eggs either. Duck eggs now, they are a very different texture. I have never had Maran chickens or eggs.
@adambrickley9088 2 жыл бұрын
@@KayElayempea Now where I CAN tell the difference is fresh eggs vs. store bought. Totally different product and consistency.
@Snoop787 3 жыл бұрын
"I was right!" I mean, obviously, Max, that raspberry puree plus that angel food cake, it just screams "winning combo"! :P
@IsaacIsaacIsaacson 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Everyone of those chickens breeds still exists, and I have kept all of them.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 жыл бұрын
Gotta catch 'em all
@snesguy9176 3 жыл бұрын
Never kept chickens but I've probably ate all the eggs with all the neighbors/family/friends that have kept chickens over the years. I always prefer them when eating just eggs. Home grown have a much better flavor. Prefer the store bought for baking though, I don't like when eggy flavor come through in cake.
@therealhellkitty5388 3 жыл бұрын
Buff Orpingtons are my favorite … they love to sit on your lap for scritchies.
@Avellania 3 жыл бұрын
Do the brahmin ones have two heads? 🤭
@direfranchement 3 жыл бұрын
Evidence?
@Derek9598 3 жыл бұрын
so this recipe is an old one. My grandparents are in their late 90s and my grandmother has collected cookbooks from years past, specifically a local farm town community of women here in Iowa. Every year since around the towns inceptions in 1856, women in the community put together a cookbook every year with recipe's from women in the community. everyone from my grandmother, great grandmother, great great grandmother have recipe's in this book every year. Well recently we found a large stockpile of these books going back to 1890 that my grandmother had been hoarding. So where am I going with this, well one of my favorite foods is angel cake that my grandmother has been making since I was young, she cannot cook anymore due to age and I decided to try some recipes' for it out of some of these books to find the one she uses. I found one that is almost identical to this one, however it comes with a homemade whip sort of egg frosting to go on the outside of this. Its a strange frosting but when you eat it, it makes your tongue tingle a bit... and its so damn good. Angel cake by itself is boring but this "frosting" makes it 12000x better! A lot of the recipe's in these books are also similar... a lot of dash of this, thimble of that...
@BlueRoseFaery 3 жыл бұрын
I Love finding those old community cookbooks, I have a few from flea markets & such, one of my favorites has a joke recipe for elephant & rabbit stew, lol
@teknophyle1 3 жыл бұрын
I have a new appreciation for Max's dedication to the history education side of these old recipes. Ironically far better at it than the history channel
@robertromero8692 3 жыл бұрын
No one really interested in history watches the History Channel now.
@irenafarm 3 жыл бұрын
If this were produced by the History Channel, they'd be talking about how angels are actually aliens and the recipe is code for channeling a dimension door.
@natelax1367 3 жыл бұрын
Any time I see someone mention the history channel it makes me miss modern marvels
@beejls 3 жыл бұрын
The History Channel doesn’t really DO History any more, do they?
@katehirst6046 3 ай бұрын
On the subject of kitchen cleanliness I'm here to give a shout out to Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis who precedes Lister. In his time at Vienna hospital, student doctors would come from dissecting cadavers as part of their studies to the maternity ward to deliver babies. Semmelweis lowered the hospital's death rate from puerperal fever (by about 82%) simply by having his fellow doctors wash their hands with chlorinated lime solution. He was ridiculed by his peers, had a nervous breakdown and died incarcerated in a mental assylum. In 1971 the BBC broadcast a Radio 4 play, based on Morton Thompson's 1949 novel about Semmelweis, The Cry and the Covenant. It moved me to tears.
@its6696 3 жыл бұрын
You are like "Answers with Joe" but with food.If you don't know him,it's a compliment :-) This may be the best KZfaq channel for food in existence right now.Thank you for all your work and the genuine love you bring to this subject.Not regretting leaving the House of Mouse are ya?
@TastingHistory 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And no, definitely made the right decision.
@basketcase289 3 жыл бұрын
The opening reminds me when my brother asked my mom for a recipe and later complained how the only number in the whole recipe was "1/2" in half and half
@Tantejay 3 жыл бұрын
My great-great grandmas receipe book had a receipe for waffles - ingredient: "for 10 pennies cinnamon".... ^^
@RikuIshmaru 3 жыл бұрын
I feel you there lol… my great grandma had recipes in monme (3.75g)
@Tantejay 3 жыл бұрын
@@RikuIshmaru Ouch. ^^ The receipe of my great-grandma turned out niecely, if not a TIIIIIIIIINY bit much. She started with "use 24 eggs". Big family back then ^^
@naamadossantossilva4736 3 жыл бұрын
10 pennies as in weight or the amount it could buy?
@Katharina-rp7iq 3 жыл бұрын
I have a handwritten notebook with recipes my great grandma wrote. It has instructions such as 'the blue christmas cup full of flower and a small soup bowl full of milk' - those recipes use specific cups, pots and pans she owned. And she used to bake cake in a sawed off metal bucket because she didn't have a proper baking container for cake. There are a lot of magazine and newspaper cutouts with recipes in that notebook too, though.
@snazzypazzy 3 жыл бұрын
@@Katharina-rp7iq I just cooked some rice and I always measure how much I need with that one coffee cup - some things never change. It does sound like a great treasure to have. Even if you don't have the cups she used.
@dougreeves7092 3 жыл бұрын
Max, if I must say, you are the Ryan Reynolds of KZfaq. You are presentable, all around lovable personality, you quote things you love and/or appreciate. And I'm sure I'm not the first to notice that you put little hints in your background 🤫 meaning your pokemon plushies and whatnot. I'm super psyched for your cookbook and I'll buy it as soon as it's available. Love your content man, keep up the good work buddy!
@magnolia31611 3 жыл бұрын
I love angle food cake! Reminds me of my grandmother. She’d always make them for everyone’s birthdays, and put fresh whipped cream on top, and a berry compote🥰 Yum!
@WaterfaerysDomain 3 жыл бұрын
One just doesn't eat angel food cake without a fruit glaze of some sort; it's like the cake demands it. Hats off to Fannie Farmer for the great strides she made in the women's rights movement, even though that isn't what she was aiming for. Since her forté was cookery, the men basically disregarded her and thought of her skills as unimportant. She was able to institute changes, build businesses, and make in-roads into the male world without them even noticing. She set the table for Libbers who came after her (pun intended...forgive me lol).
@girlunrepentant1254 3 жыл бұрын
You know, I have never understood why cookery is dismissed so quickly as unimportant. People need to eat. And I have had to teach enough of my bachelor friends how to cook that I know perfectly well how important it is as a basic life skill. Just another form of sexism I suppose, since it has long been considered as women's work. Surprising really, since a great many famous chefs are male.
@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын
@@girlunrepentant1254 yep. Anything necessary is branded both trivial and woman’s work. Even computer programming was viewed this way, I kid you not it was described in ways like “planning the day, with the shopping and the meal and picking the kids up” until it started gaining more and more male employment in which case it suddenly became “like planning a battle, or solving a complicated puzzle” and stuff like that.
@Lurker1954 3 жыл бұрын
@@girlunrepentant1254 Outside of the USA, most Chefs are male.
@Lurker1954 3 жыл бұрын
@@kaitlyn__L The Original Programmers were Female! Rear Admiral Grace Hopper even coined the word "Bug" to describe a problem. The very first, Ada Lovelace, started it all generations before there were computers.
@kaitlyn__L 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lurker1954 indeed! And trans women were involved in both x86 and ARM's development histories too!
@Lauren.E.O 3 жыл бұрын
My aunt almost never measured by anything other than sight. Incredible food. I still can’t get close to her stuff years down the line.
@marleneclough3173 3 жыл бұрын
Same with many experiencedcooks
@colleenuchiyama4916 3 жыл бұрын
That’s how my grandma taught me. Every day I’m grateful for her .
@milyluv16 3 жыл бұрын
My mom was the same! I always begged her to write down her recipes for me but she said she couldn't because she never measured anything "just until it looks right" lol Now here I am trying to go by memory to make her recipes! So far only one down
@lenabreijer1311 3 жыл бұрын
My mother did too and the recipes I do of hers I measure with the palm of my hand. But her baking was atrocious because she didn't like doing it so I taught my self from a cookbook "madame Benoit encyclopedia of Canadian cooking" which was published in the 60s as a monthly supplement by the grocery store.
@anti-ethniccleansing465 3 жыл бұрын
@@milyluv16 Same here. I finally just was able to make my mom’s tomato-based stuffed bell pepper mixture by eye and tasting as I went along a few nights ago (with a couple of slight alterations, as I like cheese and a bit of lemon juice in mine). I was quite pleased with myself haha. It took me quite a few rounds to get to this point.
@macavitymacavity 3 жыл бұрын
I've been using my mom's Fannie Farmer cookbook since I was a kid. It was GREAT to finally learn some history about her, making her more than just a name on a book!
@SmokeyChipOatley 3 жыл бұрын
Max: “… a recipe by Fannie Farmer” Brits: **die**
@corwin32 3 жыл бұрын
In honor of your big day, I’m going to make one of your favorite desserts, and eat it in front of you. And you can’t have any. Happy Birthday, Shelley! 🥳 🎂
@TastingHistory 3 жыл бұрын
🤣 sort of true
@TastingHistory 3 жыл бұрын
@@dallasl3688 🤣 also true
@sarahtaylor4264 3 жыл бұрын
One year my family made a birthday cake for my grandmother and dad. They were out of state, so we sent pictures and enjoyed it.
@patrickdurham8393 3 жыл бұрын
@@sarahtaylor4264 I have an aunt who despises cake but she's heartbroken if no one bakesa cake because everyone else love it and she's hoping to be able to blow out the candles when she hits 70!
@patrickdurham8393 3 жыл бұрын
@@dallasl3688 Townsend's said he was a nice guy. Good enough for me!
@thelout 3 жыл бұрын
Fanny Farmer was my first cookbook and I'm on a 3rd copy having worn out the first 2.
@Brickertown 3 жыл бұрын
That "sure" at 11:25 is the single funniest thing I have heard all week
@nobodylovesditto 3 жыл бұрын
Max, I watch a lot of content on KZfaq. That moment when you were drizzling the coulis onto the cake, gently singing, followed by your calm exclaimations that it was going to be good? Not just unique, but heartwarming and enjoyable. I'm thankful that you can approach your channel with such apparent enjoyment and quiet enthusiasm. Keep it up, Max. You're doing wonderfully.
@zucchinibreath666 3 жыл бұрын
The best explanation I ever heard for not greasing the pan when making cake was "How would you like to climb up a greased wall?"
@pjschmid2251 3 жыл бұрын
If your pan doesn’t have the legs you can put the pan on a bottle through the center hole so that the cake is suspended. That’s probably a better choice than resting the cake on a wire rack. The suspension of the cake is key to keeping all the air and volume in the cake.
@margaretwolf1300 3 жыл бұрын
I am a professional baker and we weigh everything! It’s good to see that being taught to the public. Growing up, no one I knew ever weighed anything and I wasn’t taught to weigh either until I made it a career.
@musicforoxygen 3 жыл бұрын
Fannie taught me everything I know about the basics of cooking and serving food! I grew up memorizing her recipes, with their crosshatched, step-by-step illustrations. And now I write cookbooks for a living.
@joyherting3705 3 жыл бұрын
I remember having one of those handheld beaters. We even had one of the really old fashioned ice cream makers. Angel food cake with whipped cream and berries as one of my favorite things
@graceandglory1948 3 жыл бұрын
I still have mine. They can still be found at L.L. Bean
@julieneff9408 3 жыл бұрын
Um... did you or anyone ever get their hair tangled up in one? Just me? OK.
@graceandglory1948 3 жыл бұрын
@@julieneff9408 I can only speak for myself..no. Thank heavens 😊. Electric mixers are much more dangerous.
@SY-ok2dq 2 жыл бұрын
@@graceandglory1948 You can let little kids use those hand operated beater gadgets, but a bad idea to let them use electric mixers. I used those manual beaters for years, as a kid. They'll only work if you're turning them and won't go that fast unless you're really really cranking away furiously. And even so, you need to use both hands just to operate it so you can't get fingers caught in the beaters.
@graceandglory1948 2 жыл бұрын
@@SY-ok2dq I agree 👍😊
@TheMrsBeej 3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you plugged The Butchering Art! I read it last summer and just loved it. Bellevue by David Oshinsky is a really good read as well and in a similar vein.
@TastingHistory 3 жыл бұрын
I’ll have to get that one.
@kathleenleary8296 3 жыл бұрын
Read both - recommended!
@gatamadriz 3 жыл бұрын
Fond memories of the Fanny Farmer cookbook! When my mother started to teach me how to cook - I was 7 - I was to read the recipe from Fanny Farmer. By recipe I mean the basics because I was sous cheffing for her (I had a title that I thought was neato). How to measure and weigh properly, beat egg whites, later how to cut vegetables into fine dice, regular dice, how to prepare artichokes and asparagus, etc. That version was from my grandmother who was a nurse and used the recipes for the sick copiously, as well as basic recipes. Once I had mastered the basics then I was allowed to graduate to the Gourmet Cookbooks. Her's were leather-bound with a silk ribbon you could use to bookmark your recipe. Very elegant. I still have all these to this day. With Angel Food Cake, her pan had the feet on them, however, she always filled an empty wine bottle with rice and set the pan upside down on the neck. She swore by this, saying that it circulated more air and kept the top from getting gummy. Thank you Max!
@annetteschmitz646 3 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite "show" on KZfaq!!! I love Max, I love the humor, history and recipes!! Keep up the excellent work!!!
@emperadorpokemon 3 жыл бұрын
Clefable, my personal all time favorite . The original fairy 🧚♂️ pokemon, they would love angel cake since they also need to stay light to hop and dance around moon stones.
@shawna620 3 жыл бұрын
My mother used to make this for my birthday every year. She put the cake pan onto a full coke bottle to hang it upside down. We always ate it with whipped cream or frosting.
@tplon2001 3 жыл бұрын
My mom would make angel food cake for my birthday when I was young, too. I got to choose the color of cake and frosting. It was fun deciding on colors.
@oldasyouromens 2 жыл бұрын
I love my family's Fannie Farmer cookbook - she learned to cook after recovering from illness, like me, and there is incredible practicality to the original versions (and some updates by her students) that makes them so easy for disabled users. A lot of it is just 'layer these ingredients in an oven dish, put them in a hot oven, let them stew for an hour or two with a bit of flour and stock, and you have a very nice hot meal with minimal effort.' The kind of cooking my French-trained father would never allow, but I rely on a lot as an adult.
@maeve4686 Жыл бұрын
My Mom didn't cook... however, she made a couple of things & (my Dad did the cooking) her Angel cake was from a 1935 "Housekeeping " book, which included EVERYTHING one needed to run a kitchen. She had the aluminum pan with feet, but she'd grab a wine bottle & mounted it thru the hole for it to cool. Yes, for hours...
@dianamccay7276 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much - I love this! My daddy adored Angel Food cake, so my mom made it all the time. He especially loved the brown crust that my mom always trimmed off the cake after it cooled (to ensure that the finished cake was as white and tender and “Angel-like”as possible). She always put the sweet, brown trimmings on a plate and put them on the highest shelf in the kitchen cabinet to keep my sister and I from getting into them… those trimmings were for daddy… ❤️🥰
@PinkGeekification 3 жыл бұрын
I learned to cook from my grandparents and the gift of a 1940's edition of Fannie Farmer. I still consider it my "kitchen bible" and have that same book, albeit stained, noted in and taped together.
@hiyahandsome 3 жыл бұрын
I still have my mother's Fannie Farmer Cookbook which she got back in the 1940s when she became a wife and homemaker. She made the Fannie Farmer Angel Food Cake every year for my uncle's birthday starting back in the 1960s. He was one of the first people to have a special heart procedure and went on a very strict low fat, high fiber diet for the rest of his 95 years after suffering a major heart attack. And he loved my mom's lighter-than-air Angel Food Birthday Cake with macerated berries because my mom was a wonderful baker, as are you. She had that magic touch and loved to please her family with special cakes for each and every one's birthday. What a lovely tradition, which she passed along to me and my sister. We used to sing a song in grammar school, "Helping mother bake a cake you'd think was fun. It smells so good you can hardly wait till the baking's done." Thanks for reminding me of personal history as well as the great culinary history which you cover with such panache.
@theladysamantha193 Жыл бұрын
HA! Joseph Lister is my hubbys ancestor and he carries his last name! Which also means he is related to Anne Lister, what a rebel! Hubby is an old punk, go figure... We never knew about the book so thanks for that! I'm getting it pronto as I am a nurse and have a passion for medical history.
@caseyfulton8559 3 жыл бұрын
Eagerly awaiting an episode on Caviar, and a sponsorship where you get a bunch of free caviar. Rock on
@vickiekostecki 3 жыл бұрын
"Heavens to Betsy!" This expression needs to make a comeback.
@agimagi2158 3 жыл бұрын
I sometimes say it after watching too many old movies
@floraposteschild4184 3 жыл бұрын
Also: "my stars!"
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 жыл бұрын
I remember my eight-grade social studies teacher had that as a catchphrase, along with "Whoa Nelly!" He was cool.
@tamaraburiak8115 3 жыл бұрын
We used the Fannie Farmer cookbook in my high school home economics class.
@chazdomingo475 3 жыл бұрын
I've asked my Southern grandmother for some of her recipes and her measurements always call for "heaped" cups. But mostly it's because she's been cooking for 70 years and just works everything by eye until the consistency looks right to her.
@MeMe-Moi 3 жыл бұрын
I learned to cook using a later edition of her cookbook (post 1940 edition). The instructions are amazing and very detailed and possibly better than any modern cookbook I have used.
@Initiallyleo 3 жыл бұрын
She sounds like a pretty amazing woman who doesn’t get nearly enough credit these days. That’s one heck of a career!
@ellencameron3775 3 жыл бұрын
She sold 360,000 copies of her cookbook in her lifetime. Even now that would be considered a pretty successful book. But lecturing at Harvard, starting your own culinary school? Yep, my hat is off to her.
@tyrant-den884 3 жыл бұрын
She looked like a badass too.
@tyrant-den884 3 жыл бұрын
@@ellencameron3775 and being a woman doing so at that time too.
@patrickdurham8393 3 жыл бұрын
We heard plenty about her when I went to culinary school for the Corps back in the 80s. She had a paper on upsizing recipes that may still be used today.
@jonesnori 3 жыл бұрын
I have a print of the facsimile 1896 edition, complete with her handwritten emendations. I still use her pound cake recipe.
@jarrettrodriguez5341 3 жыл бұрын
“I was right” was my favorite line in the whole show!
@shaunacorrigan9372 3 жыл бұрын
I like to make really thin layers of angel food cake in sheet pans, just cuz the best part is the caramelized edges that were in contact with the pan. Some warm rhubarb sauce and fresh whipped cream, yum!
@hollyingraham3980 3 жыл бұрын
This is genius.
@agimagi2158 3 жыл бұрын
Tuesdays are the best days to have birthday because it's Max' upload day! And angel cake fits so well to the ocasion!
@vikingventures3888 3 жыл бұрын
You have managed to combine my two greatest passions in life - history and food. Thank you so much Max! Your videos always brighten my day.
@cmg565 3 жыл бұрын
I have an angel food pan but never knew what the tabs on it were for. I didn't know you were supposed to flip it over and let the cake release itself. I love that I learned something new whenever I watch tasting history.
@SouthernBelleReviews 3 жыл бұрын
I've never made angel food cake before because of how complicated the recipe is. 💘 Also I'm so glad he mentioned and touched on all the different egg varieties laid by different breeds of chickens. That is so important when it comes to how much amount of egg is incorporated into recipes because the sizes vary so much!!! I speak from personal experience as I have what is called a rainbow flock!
@annbrookens945 3 жыл бұрын
The clip where Max is sipping his coffee: sublime! "He looks sooo handsome!!!"
@AndrewSigal 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting to choose the example of Fannie Farmer explaining Capsicum, since, in a sense, she was wrong. Her Capsicum may have come from Africa, but the plant itself originates in South and Central America.
@hollyingraham3980 3 жыл бұрын
But cayenne grows where she says. She was describing cayenne, not paprika or ancho.
@amymatusik972 3 жыл бұрын
Fannie Farmer's cookbook is still my favorite cookbook to date. I actually just made a quiche today using the recipe within it.
@mollyscozykitchen4693 3 жыл бұрын
Some recipes still are vague... I have a couple small boxes of family recipes, most coming from my great-grandmother. They are vague to say the least! "An acorn-cap of baking soda", "moderate oven", "enough flour"... it's fun and frustrating deciphering them with my mom. (Great episode, Max!)
@amyoliver4438 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for telling Fannie's history and impact on our food culture! She was my first cookbook and I still love it!
@ThainaYu 3 жыл бұрын
I wish the coffee selector web would always have explicit parameter about acidity and bitterness Because I like bitter coffee and hate sour coffee
@kramermariav 3 жыл бұрын
Same!
@shanicestella2226 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah Sour Coffee are Weird for my Palate
@martharunstheworld 2 жыл бұрын
I have my mom's Fannie Farmer Cookbook. My mom always said that the sign of a good cookbook is one that has writing in it, because it's been used. Whenever I miss her (she passed away from cancer when I was young), I cook something from it, so I get to see her writing. I love that book!
@MoonLitChild Жыл бұрын
I have my great-aunt's Fanny Farmer cookbook. I was lucky enough to get to know her growing up, and my mom let me have it when I moved out-- so this episode brought back some fond memories. It's strange how as time goes on, only certain things stick out in your memory, and the main thing I remember was how her kitchen looked like nothing had been updated since the early 1950's. The cookbook (the 13th edition) has her notes on how to adapt a few recipes to her taste, and I still consult it to this day. Thanks for letting me walk down memory lane in this episode!
@jexx30 3 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna need a screenshot or gif of Max saying "I WAS RIGHT" (as helpfully typed in the CC). For reasons. Heh.
@patty5023 3 жыл бұрын
The first cookbook I bought, 30 years ago, the 'Fannie Farmer Cookbook'.
@joannesmith2484 3 жыл бұрын
I still use my 1965 edition Fannie Farmer Cookbook that used to be my late great-aunt's, but she gave it to me for my bridal shower. I love that it has her notes in the margins. She said it was her best cookbook and she was a great cook! I still use it, even in these days of google. My most repeated go-to recipe is scalloped potatoes (page 265). Easy and perfect! My now adult daughter requests it often when she's coming for dinner.
@surrealkit4843 Жыл бұрын
I use Fannie Farmer, I always have. It's one of the books I learned to cook on. It does have measurement but some of the recipes have issues with the measurements. Specifically the milk is too high or too low in a couple..
@beththordsen 3 жыл бұрын
I worked at a bakery where we turned the cakes upside down using recycled wine bottle
@wompa70 3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite cakes. Angel food, Devil's food, carrot cake, and German chocolate. But the cake I would LOVE to see you do is pound cake. It has to have some fascinating history and stories.
@scallopohare9431 3 жыл бұрын
Real pound cake is a pound each of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter. The eggs are seperated and beaten to provide the only leavening. Also a little nutmeg to cover the eggy taste. It keeps really well.
@shallynsimonds5494 3 жыл бұрын
Hello Max and José🙂 I'm an artist living in Florida and I don't know anyone who hasn't seen at least one of your episodes. I've personally been watching your videos since the first one with the cheese(although it was a couple of weeks after it came out I think) and subscribed immediately and although I don't follow many, I used your channel as a reward for my son and daughter for good behavior, both are 12 now and your shows are similar to Horrible Histories on the BBC, and then we would try to make it too. My daughter is on the autism spectrum and I wanted you to know that she has made so many of your recipes and you have been such an inspiration to her. Although she hates the alcohol recipes because I won't make them with kids lol. She had only ever connected to tap and ballet as a way to be with the world before you. I wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put in and to let you know that you are really making a difference in at least one someone's life.
@MichaelYoder1961 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting that while we use standard measurements, now we play with amounts - I don't level spices, I go by "yeah that looks like enough." Mostly, I've been successful, but I see it as all alchemy and experimentation. Yet another great episode, Max! Thanks
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