Conquering the Electric Oven
2014年 09月 18日
Since arriving in Japan something I have had to work hard at is learning how to cook again. Not because I can’t cook, but because most of recipes I know, the ingredients are not available here. This has meant learning to cook a little Japanese food and adapt the recipes I do know. I still have a long way to go in terms of my Japanese cooking but this week I successfully baked a plum cake! I used a recipe my Grandma always used to use and I always remember her baking the plum cake in the autumn.
The first challenge was working out what to substitute for two of the main ingredients – golden syrup and muscovado sugar. Golden syrup is something of a British institution (a bit like Marmite – there’s nothing quite like it) so replacing it was difficult. In the end I used honey and Okinawan raw cane sugar which worked well. After mixing all the ingredients the main challenge was the electric oven. I can’t read kanji so after a lot of beeping and button pressing the oven seemed to be heating up. I eventually worked out the timer and 45 minutes later a cake came out! For my first attempt at baking in Japan I was pretty pleased with the results.
See you at the cafe soon - come and share your cooking stories with me!
Rosanna (UK)
The first challenge was working out what to substitute for two of the main ingredients – golden syrup and muscovado sugar. Golden syrup is something of a British institution (a bit like Marmite – there’s nothing quite like it) so replacing it was difficult. In the end I used honey and Okinawan raw cane sugar which worked well. After mixing all the ingredients the main challenge was the electric oven. I can’t read kanji so after a lot of beeping and button pressing the oven seemed to be heating up. I eventually worked out the timer and 45 minutes later a cake came out! For my first attempt at baking in Japan I was pretty pleased with the results.
See you at the cafe soon - come and share your cooking stories with me!
Rosanna (UK)
by chitchatcafe | 2014-09-18 15:55 | 英会話 教師 札幌