[Sca-cooks] Re: bundt cake?

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> Also sprach Mark Calderwood:
> >At 08:50 17/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >>that the cakey things baked in the
> >>mini Bundt pans are indeed her poundcakes.
> >
> >Sorry question from an iggerant Aussie- what are bundt cakes (or bundt
> >meetings?)- I heard it from American tv but have no idea what it is...(like
> >your high school/uni terminology, that has me permanently confused)
> >
> >Giles
>
> Various Germanic languages (although modern German may not now be one
> of them, at least in this usage; my German dictionary is strangely
> silent on this subject) use a noun like Bund to indicate a circle,
> or, by extension, a collar, ring, or even to denote a union or
> confederation.
>
> Anyway, a bundt cake is characterized by being in a ring-shaped pan,
> which is both attractive and has the advantage of the cake cooking
> more quickly than a similarly-sized round pan: no middle to cook
> through, so such a cake can be poufy and light due to high "oven
> spring", without burning.
>
> Adamantius

And the Bundt with a capital 'B') name is trademarked by Nordic Ware
(www.nordicware.com). You can get pans in all sorts of nifty shapes. One
of these days I need to get up to the outlet when they're having a sale.

Margaret