
Interesting facts about cakes.
They may play havoc with our waistlines but cake and cakes are a wonderful treat that we are not likely to give up anytime soon. Here some interesting facts about our tea time treat. If you feel the need to liven yours up then Flavouring Manufacturers Stringer Flavour have a full range that you can use.
The earliest 'cakes' were flat compact grain discs, squished and dried together (think rice cakes). Most British citizens wouldn’t only remember this form of cake. Rather they would know the sweetened bread in the early eighteenth century: before baking powder cakes were raised with yeast.
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Icing used to be applied with a feather on cakes.
People used to whisk egg whites with a bundle of twigs or squeeze them through a sponge before the whisk was invented.
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