American cookery terms

penrhyn

Hi OP you need a special centrifuge to enrich your yellow cake to bring it up to weapons grade.:rotfl:








http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_cake

Triggles

In the states, you can buy yellow cake mix and white cake mix. Angel food cake is entirely different. Here's a link. God knows what the ingredients difference is. I've bought and made both when living in the states, but to be honest I've never thought about ingredient differences. LOL (and no, I don't buy them here and pay these prices!! eeeek!)

yellow cake mix:
http://www.americansoda.co.uk/uk/American-Soda/Home/Baking/Cake-Mix/Duncan-Hines-Classic-Yellow-Cake-Mix.aspx

white cake mix:
http://www.americansweets.co.uk/american-betty-crocker-supermoist-white-cake-mix-not-in-uk-shops-26-p.asp

angel food cake mix:
http://www.americansoda.co.uk/uk/American-Soda/Home/Baking/Cake-Mix/Duncan-Hines-Angel-Food-Cake-Mix.aspx

zippychick

Sarah is there a specific recipe you are looking for?

I merged this with a thread on american cookery terms, there may be some useful info in it

how to make birthday and other celebration cakes may also help

Zip

purplephoenix85

A few cake/dessert recipes I've seen online contain canola oil, but this isn't something I'd use a lot of if I tracked it down and bought it. Is there anything I can substitute this with in recipes, or is it a specific must-have?

rachbc

canola is rapeseed oil, sold in the uk as vegetable oil. For some reasons 'rapeseed' wasn't considered marketable....

Big_Graeme

Rapeseed oil wasn't trademarkable Canola oil was...

meritaten

subsitute either rapeseed oil or sunflower oil.
must be an American recipe.

scrabbles_2

... except now it is VERY marketable! It makes me laugh my head off in the supermarket, you can buy tiny but swanky bottles of it for a fiver or more that are actually called rapeseed oil, but the own brand is just 'vegetable' oil. Although it does have a picture of rapeseed on the front. I always assumed this was down to one word that happens to have another, linguistically separate meaning, but surely that can't be why really?

LondonDreamer

I use sunflower oil in my baking, any flavourless vegetable oil will do. Don't use stronger flavoured oils (e.g. olive) unless the recipe specifically states to do so.

Big_Graeme

scrabbles wrote: »

... except now it is VERY marketable! It makes me laugh my head off in the supermarket, you can buy tiny but swanky bottles of it for a fiver or more that are actually called rapeseed oil

For cold pressed oil yes and very nice it is too.

scrabbles wrote: »

but the own brand is just 'vegetable' oil. Although it does have a picture of rapeseed on the front. I always assumed this was down to one word that happens to have another, linguistically separate meaning, but surely that can't be why really?

Vegetable oil may be a blend of rapeseed and other oils such as soybean oil and groundnut oil, the quality of the rapeseed is like comparing decent quality extra virgin olive oil and Tesco value olive oil.