Quick Questions on ANYTHING Old Style 3 (See first post for links to other threads)

Can anyone tell me if there's any way to work out what size cake tin you can use if you haven't got the one required in the recipe please? For instance, I prefer to make a loaf, muffins or traybake to circular cakes. I read Delia Smith's comment that a lot of cake failures are due to using the wrong size tin and wondered if there was a formula?
Hoping that someone out there understands what I'm trying to say...:o

Thanks Justamum, I'm glad that someone understood me!

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if there's any way to work out what size cake tin you can use if you haven't got the one required in the recipe please? For instance, I prefer to make a loaf, muffins or traybake to circular cakes. I read Delia Smith's comment that a lot of cake failures are due to using the wrong size tin and wondered if there was a formula?
Hoping that someone out there understands what I'm trying to say...:o

Justamum wrote: »

I'm not sure what the conversions are, but I use a recipe which is meant to go in an 8" cake tin, but I prefer to make a traybake one too, so I use a 10" x 8" tin. It also makes about 24 fairy cakes. I'm sure there is a way of doing it, so I'll be watching with interest.

I'd say you needed to do a calculation involving volumes. Obviously this is easiest if you have both the 'suggested' tin size / shape and the 'preferred' tin to hand: you can then lob water into one and see how much more / less it is in the 'other' tin.

If you're using a different tin because you don't have the 'suggested', then good old google comes to the rescue: see 1/3 of the way down this page for lists of different sizes and shapes, and this one for the maths, including novelty tins. BBC's got some rough and ready calculations half way down this page. And there's Nigella.

Key thing is that a cake will cook at different speeds depending on how deep the mix is, and what shape it's in. You'll have to watch a square or rectangular tin more closely than a round one, as the corners may burn, especially if it's not as deep as it would be in a round one.

geminilady wrote: »

Does lemon and lime juice go off?just noticed it says use within a month on some bottles I have in the fridge,also says it on jam?

I'm not sure about it going off but you could freeze small quantities as ice cubes if it's getting near to it's use by date?

lita wrote: »

What can I use my son's milk for if he turns his nose up at it? It's normally 9oz that's been nuked for 1 minute. It seems such a waste to just tip it down the drain

What sort of milk? Are we talking formula here? That will affect the answers ... but one of them would be to make smaller bottles and give him more of them?