Kate, the clerk of one of the committees I look after, brought down some batches of "Friendship" Cake on Wednesday and I took one. It is a sourdough mixture that has to be stirred and fed for nine days before dividing into quarters. one quarter made into a cake and the other three quarters given away to friends for them to undertake the process themselves.
It's called "Herman the German" for some reason; perhaps this batch orginated from someone German.
The ninth day will be a Saturday. Cat at work has expressed an interest, so I have emailed Kate to see if the mixture will last till Monday. It lasted one day extra this time, as Kate brought it down from Scotland on the sleeper.
I've had to feed the mixture today with flour, sugar and milk. I only had rice milk which was rather thin, so hope that will do. Some Plamil soya milk would probably have been better, but I don't drink much milk (mainly just a little on my breakfast cereal) and soya milk goes all thick at the bottom of the carton and I waste a load.
The cake recipe has eggs, I am planning to use silken tofu (Cat found this suggestion as an egg substitute on the internet) and some vinegar and bicarb. It also has chopped up apple which I will leave out.
As my kitchen scales have their own plastic bowl I rarely using my mixing bowls, so it was nice to get one out to use for this.
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