Angel Food Cake vs Angel Foodcake

I love Angel Food Cake. I didn't used to, but I've come to appreciate it. Especially with the lovely recipe I'm about to share. I bake for special occassions at work. Ok, I just bake and make up occassions, but whatever. We had an intern this past summer and he celebrated a birthday while being part of our team. We all went for lunch and I made a cake for his birthday. One of my co-workers and I spoke and I said I'd make angel food cake and she agreed to bring the strawberries. I mentioned my plan in front of the team and got nods of approval.

The cake arrived for said party, and a number of my teammates looked confused. Now, I should mention that I work with a diverse group, a number of which English is a second language. And well, I talk fast. So they all thought it was Angel Foodcake. I'm not sure what foodcake is, but they seemed surprised by what arrived. It seemed to be pleasantly surpised as all but one snarfed it down. He proclaimed it too sweet. A concept I truly don't understand.

This wonderful recipe is thanks to Eric Todd a wonderful pastry chef from Seattle. If I could find him, I'd link to him. I would even ask his permission to include this. But he seems to have disappeared. I love this recipe and I misplace it on a regular basis. My original goal was for just this type of recipes, ones I love but can't keep track of! And yes, I know I promised more lemon recipes, I'm getting there. Just with all the baking I've done this week that required egg yolks, I had more than a dozen egg whites calling out to be used!

Lemons into Lemonade

So generally when someone says that, they have had something sad happen and they are trying to make the best of it. Well, not so in this case. I had a wonderful thing happen, I was the lucky recipient of box of lemons from Greenclogs. I am going to post a number of recipes that will use these wonderful lemons, but the most basic, most simple, most perfect use is lemonade. I had used a number of lemons for their wonderful rind to steep in vodka for limoncello cream. My lovely daughter announced, I want lemonade! The DH replied, I don't think we have any lemonade. I looked at him, with a lemon in my hand, and said, um, how about lemons?

Lemonade is really quite simple, and one wonderful tip, make a simple syrup rather than using straight sugar, and you won't get a grainy batch of sugar in the bottom of your container