Carrot Cake. An amusement

    16 November 2023

    September 2023

    The other morning a member of my dog-walk-and-coffee group happened to mention that the evening before he had eaten a large slice of carrot cake that had some kind of icing in the middle of it, he couldn’t say what it was. Seeking to identify the nature of the icing a general discussion was had as to what as consumers of the modern carrot cake its defining ingredients should be. The points of distinction of the carrot cake over other cakes came we thought down to just three essentials: carrot, walnuts and cream cheese topping. I put the question to my Facebook Friends also and they confirmed these three ingredients as essential and added a spice of some kind as the fourth essential.

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.

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