And now the party's over

[ideserveyou]

WriSoMiFu is finished,

Comments

[joshinator]

Hey I love the look of Herman

Your description of the balloons and things reminded me of The Carnival is Over by the Seekers. Gets played alot in our house.

[trepkos]

You'll just have to make do with us then!
Or talk to some real live people ...

[ideserveyou]

I owe you one big-time for introducing me to wrisomifu - and I didn't mean that I didn't want to go on talking to you lot, you know I could write and chat about AotB until the cows come home...

But real live people? Nah, too scary!

*hides in cupboard*

[trepkos]

*wants cake*

[ideserveyou]

I'll bring one with me next time I come to stay... it might have to be a finished cake... I'm not sure about travelling with jars of live yeast culture!

[bunn]

You have a cake called Herman???!!! Why Herman?

[ideserveyou]

Herman is a friendship cake - they seem to be undergoing a revival recently, and the recipe was shared on the wrisomifu community so I thought I'd start one off and see how it went.
There's a Guardian blogpost about it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/nov/30/a-friendship-cake-called-herman

It takes ten days to incubate the yeast mix that leavens it, but it's worth the wait. If you eat it hot and straight out of the oven it tastes positively alcoholic...

[bunn]

Mmmmm! He sounds intriguingly yeasty. I'd never come across the idea at all before.

Tragically I don't think I have 4 friends who like baking and live close enough to be given a Herman but I might give him a go anyway. Love the idea of keeping him rolling along producing cake after cake!

[ideserveyou]

I've done just-under-half quantities and split it into three, which gives me one cake, one starter to give away, and one to keep for the next batch.

And I guess you could always make two or more cakes and freeze the surplus, although that kind-of defeats the object of keeping the culture going...

[freddiejoey]

I'll just to keep typing cocks up arses and in twats......and in the odd horse hole

[ideserveyou]

And I will have no complaints at all if you do!

[ideserveyou]

I read that as 'mouse hole' the first time round btw.

Think I may need glasses... hmmm, they do say it makes you blind... no sign of stunted growth here though *g*

[freddiejoey]

No cock the size that we write about would fit in a bloody mouse hole - and I have it on good authority that Llud's is the ripest of the lot.