On 2/18/2015 1:35 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> ...
> \> Did you see the episode of America's Test Kitchen where they made it?
> Gee,
>> all the hoops they had to go through. And it's the sort of thing I would
>> have made when I was younger had I heard of it then. I used to love
>> making
>> complicated things. Not sure anyone in my family would have liked it
>> though. We're not big dairy lovers.
>
> I have not seen that episode. The concept is not a difficult one though.
> You make a sponge cake with a good amount of eggs, poke holes in it, put
> a sweet mix of canned milk and cream on it and let it soak to the
> bottom. Frost with a whipped cream based frosting. The idea is kind of
> goofy in this country but a Mexican or South American wouldn't find it
> goofy at all.
>
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>
> They claimed that they had all sorts of problems with the normal
> recipe. I read somewhere that on that show they look for problems that
> aren't really there and reinvent the wheel. I think in a lot of cases
> this is true!

Well, they do have an hour, or however long the show is, to fill. They
probably be finding all kinds of problems with cooking a guinea pig -
one of the simplest of rodents to prepare!