General Chat

I needed to do a lot of baking very quickly in my 2lb loaf tins and 8" round loose bottom and fixed. Presentation was also going to be really important so I decided to try some of those baking cases to fit.

I was really pleased. They work for Victoria Sponge consistency and also for runnier mixtures. I was able to keep a mini production line going and the cakes turned out very well. No constant washing up. All I had to do was let the tin cool ready for the next cake.

Cost-wise I feel that for the time saved from making my own lining, and how nice the cakes looked they are worth it.

I also make quiches in 10 inch square ceramic. I keep and reuse two 2lb loaf liners side by side in them for the beans when I'm blind baking.

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ROFLMAO because "loose bottom" was explained


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My OH is a professional French patissier & boulanger. She always uses baking paper etc. She also finds the great bake off program very funny, tears of merriment.
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They get someone else to do it Chris :-D

Professional bakers NEVER wash their cake tins. Came as a surprise to me but it is true.

Ah, :-D Just like Madona,your Lookalike. :-D :-D :-D

You're thinking of 'silly cones' Merlin ;-) :-D

And another use for Silicon Robert,never knew it could be used for baking as well. :-D :-D ;-)

I think you need the Soup Ozzittry thread Master Robert :-0 ;-) :-D

all you girls talking about your loose bottoms :-D

always grease and line , my tins getting somewhat old now, if i dont do it i leave half the cake in the tin .

We only had 'domestic Science' until the third form at High School. All I can remember is making a very wonky pair of navy blue shorts, a 'pinafore', a petticote with a rolled hem. We learned to smock, do french seams, hem neatly (or it was pulled out and we did it again), darn, patch sheets.

In cookery I can remember making a Christmas cake and icing it, soup, cheese and onion and potato pie, cheese straws, shortbread biscuits, Queen of puddings. I suppose we must have made other things but I don't remember. They then had to be transported home on two buses

Sorry, the original post asked about lining tins. I rarely bake now as we'd be as big as houses if we ate all I'd like to bake Lol! But if I make a fruit loaf I don't line the tin, just grease and flour it.

Well I do grease and line my cakes but also have bought the silicone ones but have never been brave enough to use them!!!!!!

Julia
Everything you listed is exactly the same things that I was taught at school and at home, OH thinks I am mad ironing almost everything and often comes along, takes his shirts etc and says " I am retired you know, no going to the office etc and that has been the same for 9 years......all i need is for my clothes to be clean!"

*lobs loaf of bread at Lynda* His Nibs will enjoy the fruit cake, cheers :-D :-D

When I was in the Brownies Brown Owl brought a few items of clothing to the meeting one evening, the idea being to teach us how to fold them 'correctly'.
I was horrified! At the tender age of 9 I was aware of the sexist implications.
If man wants to wear pristine shirt he can wash/iron/fold/hang it himself!

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edit, I know it's not cakey bakey but was responding to Julias little woman lessons :-D

I would use paper for a big fruit cake but really couldn't be arsed with all that faff for something smaller.

My baking days have been curtailed a little at the moment.The door fell off the oven yesterday.

The old man mullered it when he sneezed while reversing his wheelchair and it has finally given up.

I'll swap you a fruit cake for a loaf of bread island :-D

Oh dear , Island you must have had a deprived childhood at school LOLOL
We learned things that I suppose come under the heading of General Hosekeeping, as well as just cooking.
We were taught how to launder,starch and iron a tray cloth.
How to polish shoes properly
How to turn a man's shirt collar, and when that wore out, how to make a new one from the shirt flap.
The correct order of meals
How to be a perfect "afternoon tea" hostess.
How to fill a vase of flowers.
Darn mens socks
Repair your nylon stockings


and many more things that we would need to know later in life. Because in the education peoples minds, life would not get any better and progress with new inventions, and you would need to know all these things.
You had to learn to be the perfect hostess and wife, (but they did not go into the wifey bits)

Julia in Dowton Abbey

Linda, I only use my silicone moulds for a tea loaf so don't know how a Vic sponge or fruit cake for examples would turn out. I'm not a cakey person - I'm a whizz with bread and pastry though :-D :-D

Only grease them, but my Mum always did both, there are times when I wish I did line the tin as well though !

I dislike the silicone moulds for baking, have yet to get a decent cake from using one :-(