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Default Boxed Cake Mix Better Than From Scratch ???

Open a box of cake mix and take a sniff. There's a peculiar sweet perfume -
perhaps arsenic?
Polly

"Mort" <> wrote ...
> David Harmon wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:00:19 -0800 in rec.food.cooking, Mark Thorson
>> <> wrote,
>>> His reasons are that the ingredients are better measured,
>>> and they use ingredients that you can't get.

>>
>> It's not that people can't get cake flour, but why bother when they
>> already have "all purpose"?

>
> Because AP has a higher gluten content and will
> make a less tender crumb.
>
> --
> Mort