I got some new readers which made me realise that I have been clinically blind for quite some time. It's also become apparent is that I'm a lot cleverer when I'm wearing them. I swear I understand really big words (bigger than wheelbarrow) when I've got them on. But the best thing is, they look like Joe 90's glasses. Joe 90 was my hero back in the day. I'd hum the theme tune in my head and spin round pretending I was in the B.I.G. R.A.T. Still do in times of extreme stress.
In case you're not familiar with this nine year old spy, Joe would get in the cage a.k.a. the B.I.G. R.A.T. (Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record and Transfer, obviously) which transferred brain patterns into Joe's head and, with the aid of his special glasses, he'd be able to be a test pilot, an astronaut, a racing driver, a sheep dog handler, just about anything in fact, enabling him to take on his next secret mission. Joe had a special case too. It looked like any school boys case at first glance - pencils, exercise books etc. But no. It had secret compartments with all Joe's spy kit in it. I wanted that Joe 90 case more than anything when I was 7. I got the jigsaw of it.
Anyway, this is a cake blog, and not a therapy forum for my deprived childhood. So, bought to you with alarming clarity, is this weeks cake for the testers. An apple and walnut cake with a treacle and cream cheese icing. I chose this because I have a tin of treacle in the cupboard and it's doing my head in. It doesn't matter how many times I wipe the tin, it is constantly sticky. So, until the treacle makers put the stuff in a handy squeezy bottle, I want to get it used up so I can chuck the tin out. The other reason for this cake is because NASA used pulverised walnut shells as thermal insulation in the nose cones of its rockets. So technically, I present to you a sticky space cake.
As with just about all Good Food cakes, the recipe appeared to work well and it smelt lovely. It looks good too and I reckon it's the perfect thing to have with a cup of builders tea on a cold day. Doesn't matter what I reckon though - the tasters will be the painfully honest judges as ever.
The recipe is one of loads I've torn out of mags and stashed away and whilst it was great that the text was TEN FOOT HIGH thanks to the new readers, it did occur to me that I need somewhere proper to store these cuttings. I'm getting straight on Ebay to find a Joe 90 briefcase. I knew my time would come.
And if you're having a stressful week, why not join me. Stick your readers on, click "play", crank up the volume and start spinning. You'll thank me.
16 comments:
Looking forward to seeing your glasses :) I have some great little recipe folders. My fav being one from a brand called DoDo, I think you'd like it. I also got a gorgeous fat A4 ring binder from habitat in orange and gold for baking recipes so i can just hole punch and go!
You can have a try of them. They're ace! I'll wipe the treacle frosting off them first :) I love the sound of the A4 ring binder. Any excuse to buy a hole punch and some of them reinforcement rings! I have a thing for stationery!!
I understand the love of stationary. I am an administrator by nature (and previously, profession)... it's like crack to me. Give me a pile of filing, expense receipts, a spreadsheet & stapler and I'll be a happy lady :) Thank goodness my OH is self-employed - paperwork galore! I digress, sorry. Lovely sounding glasses and delicious sounding cake (as always!)
You and I would get along SOOO well Mrs K! Our pretty much paper-less office means I haven't done proper filing for years. I miss it! Can I come to your house and do some please???
You could.... except I've done it all, sorry! ;)
I'm not sure I even believe that. You're just hogging it all for yourself!! ;)
I was about to get all excited and tell you I have treacle in a squeezy bottle then I remembered that it is actually golden syrup and not treacle at all.
I am with you on using it up though - I daren't open the tin I have for fear of the almighty stickiness that will ensue !!
Another absolutely scrumptious looking cake !!
Barnes you are the master of the universe, you know EVERYTHING! I cannot get Joe 90 out of my head now, I really can't. Nor, the treacle cake.. God, the icing looks so good. I love your romanticising about the tin of treacle too! So glad the new readers are working out :) x
Swazi - I know! To unleash the stickiness of a treacle can is a horror! We're in the 21st Century so why no squeezy bottle?? Questions should be asked at the highest level.... Ta so much for the cake comments - doubt the tasters will be so kind!
Table, you of all people know the problems I've had reader-wise what with my seemingly random comments on your perfectly formed blog. Master of the Universe? I'm having that - but restricting it slightly to the section marked "Stuff no one really needs to remember". In a pub quiz, I'm mustard! With ace readers! :) x
The Husband has been badgering me about getting new readers - I have to say I'm a lenses wearer normally (much better for chopping onions, belive me) but when I do wear the specs (like now) I find myself seeing the world in a more 'jaded' (i.e bent, scratched and smeary) light. Not that cake though. Cor. Can't wait to get back in my own kitchen and have a good bake... Have to say, I must have been a bit girly - I always preferred Mariiiiinaaaaah.... aqua Mariiiiiinnnaaaaah... myself
Quite agree about the alarming clarity of the world when wearing your readers. I quite like it all fuzzy. Stringray was ace! Nothing girly about it. I always wanted to be called Spanner when I was a kid but my perfect name would have been Spanner Tempest. Actually, it still has a ring to it... :)
that cake looks divine and I am drooling. I am feeling lousy bad cold, stomach ache, shivering. Your comments had me laughing out loud. Psychic Liam played Joe 90 at the weekend as we were having a theme tune thing - we also played the Persuaders tune on youtube and i drooled over a young Tony Curtis again. I too have a fear of anything sticky, they say if you put oil on spoon treacle is easier to use but have never bothered to test this theory. Life is too precious!! Love any stationery ideas too for recipes - I think I will treat myself - what was it about asking for a toy as a child - I would always get postal orders for 25p etc no good at all and never what you has asked for. Alison K
The Persuaders... Tony Curtis looked great in that. He had a cool car as well if I remember rightly. I've heard about putting oil on the spoon too but it always seems like a right faff! Yep, we lucked out on toys. I wanted a Topsy Turvy Tina and got a new sister instead. Like that was supposed to make up for it! Hope you're on the mend :)
Barnes, I love your random comments! Any thoughts on the Grayson chain? Def not?
Bless you Table! The Grayson chain isn't quite doing it for me BUT I am toying with a macrame one. Where do you stand on macrame?
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