I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.

Xander ,'Help'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DCJensen - Jan 01, 2005 9:17:42 pm PST #2170 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.

So I think it is part of being a young, smart, boy.

It was part of our jobs. The smart boys have it pre-programmed.

You should have seen me doing my chess dance when I was 5...

"My horse got your paw-un!" to a tune I would later realize is Pico and Sepulveda.

On the other hand, I called it a horse until I was a teenager, so maybe I wasn't so bright after all. Or just contrary.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 02, 2005 5:14:51 am PST #2171 of 10002
What is even happening?

Or just cutting to the chase.


Theodosia - Jan 02, 2005 5:54:06 am PST #2172 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I'm really looking forward to staying there for a couple days. I'm going to get out to the Desert Museum (for the third time!) and go walking/hiking in the parks and trails. I'm expecting it will rain some, but so what, it's not like it doesn't rain here!

Timelies all!


§ ita § - Jan 02, 2005 7:06:35 am PST #2173 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You know what I strangely can't find? Cake flour. Did it go out of vogue? My supermarkets have two different sorts of bread flour each, but no cake. The Cake Bible and Cook's Illustrated say cake flour, and I want cake flour, dammit!


Ginger - Jan 02, 2005 7:09:31 am PST #2174 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Cake flour is hard to find these days. At the stores I go to, it's usually down at the bottom, underneath the rows of cake mixes.


Lee - Jan 02, 2005 7:10:09 am PST #2175 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Oddly enough, I have cake flour. How much do you need?


SailAweigh - Jan 02, 2005 7:11:26 am PST #2176 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

You can probably take regular flour and just run it through the sifter a couple of times. Might not be as fine as real cake flour, but it will do in a pinch.


amych - Jan 02, 2005 7:23:43 am PST #2177 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

It's probably a longshot outside of the South, but soft biscuit flour (e.g. White Lily) is the same as cake flour.


Lee - Jan 02, 2005 7:25:55 am PST #2178 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Will somebody yell at me to start doing useful stuff, like work?


Topic!Cindy - Jan 02, 2005 8:09:15 am PST #2179 of 10002
What is even happening?

ita: [link]

Looks like you might be able to order it.

Other hits on google suggest substitutions, if you can't get cake flour. One such is if a recipe calls for 1 cup of cake flour, substitute 3/4's cup of all-purpose flour + 2 tbsp corn starch.