{"id":10993,"date":"2023-06-17T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2023-06-17T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T16:35:40","slug":"cacophony-of-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=10993","title":{"rendered":"Cacophony of Error"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 18th June 2023<\/p>\n

Last night to Holland Park Opera for Hansel and Gretel<\/em>. There’s a bit called ‘Evening Prayer’ which is very lovely.<\/p>\n

I was to do the main course for the picnic. Coronation Quiche – second attempt. But when I looked in my bakeware cupboard, my quiche tin was still at Anthony Mottram’s where we had the Coronation. Had to buy another one – deeper. Sides of tart sank in blind baking. Mixture flowed over the sides. I couldn’t believe it. Howled and howled. Banged the work surface. Nobody came even though it turned out the next-door occupant had<\/em> returned from Greece. Although not expected until Sunday. Managed somehow to get the loathsome pastry out of the tin and the egg gloop kitchen-papered from underneath.<\/p>\n

Cousin Mowhampton, who was doing 1st course and pudding, texted beforehand, referring erroneously to Coronation chicken\u00a0<\/em>as my main. In this heat I hadn’t the energy to put her right. She was proposing smoked salmon, so I thought it wouldn’t matter anyway. But no, she’d done a tart too, with asparagus. Smoked salmon on top.<\/p>\n

So menu-ing disaster of unprecedented proportions – two tart courses. And no help. The authorities didn’t lift a finger. You’d have thought, having ordered those of us who live alone to remain alone for six weeks without remission, they would be more than prepared for such a nightmare, swooping down at once with measures.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is my garden opening (the second this season). The Maharajah only likes chocolate for dessert. Nigella said her vegan choc cake was easy. I tried six shops for ‘instant expresso coffee’ and ‘coconut butter’ … the cake blew up out of its tin and took twice as long to cook as stated. Still sunk in the middle. The bits that broke off I ate. Disgusting. Horribly sweet. The vegan ‘icing’ separated out – noxious oil oozed forth. Had to throw it away. I said to the Maharajah, ‘If this doesn’t make up for the evils of the British in India, nothing will.’<\/p>\n

My Vic Sponge though went like a dream. I felt guilty because Queen Victoria was an Imperialist and took possession of the Koh-i-Nor. Until that is I turned it out. Strange lumps of sugar disbursed through the cake fabric. Somehow hadn’t mixed properly in the machine. Why? Why? Why?<\/p>\n

So Vic Sponge will probably be filthy as well.<\/p>\n

Who ever heard of the sugar not mixing properly? I didn’t like to run the blades too long for fear of curdling in this weather.<\/p>\n

The Corrie Quiche, by the way, was, as the Germans says, obergecheesen<\/em>. The tarragon didn’t come through. Possibly because not all the mixture would fit in.<\/p>\n

So have got that to do all over again – possibly for second Glydenbourniana.<\/p>\n

Can’t go on much longer.<\/p>\n

\"Nigella's

Nigella’s Vegan Choc Cake. Doesn’t have any Choc in it, now I think of It. Horror show<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Nigella's

Nigella’s Vegan Choc ‘icing’… So useful<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fate

Fate of the Choc ‘Icing’ – about \u00a35m in the Bin<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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