[Sca-cooks] Digby's Excellent Small cakes - HELP!

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 04:53  AM, Susan Laing wrote:

> Any chance that someone has a scaled up recipe for these?
>
> I'd like to make 60 or so cakes but my brain can't work out the 
> upscaling of
> the recipe from Master Caridoc's website.

Unfortunately, it seems that neither Cariadoc nor Digby has included a 
statement of yield for the recipe (a common situation). For various 
more or less intuitive reasons I'm tempted to figure Digby's uncut 
original recipe (which yields just under ten pounds of dough) makes a 
hundred hand-sized cakes, but I really have no hard evidence for it.

I thought to check various other, more modern recipe sources, for 
somewhat similar small cakes, ranging from oatmeal raisin and chocolate 
chip cookies (although now I suspect drop cookies wouldn't provide a 
good analogy, being moister than Digby's cakes -- I think) to more 
industrial recipes for various tea cakes, which come closer but also 
don't give any yield other than gross dough weight.

Of course, you might try the recipe in the Miscellany and see how many 
cakes it actually produces, of the size you want, allowing for 
shrinkage or expansion in the oven, and then make a second batch based 
on that yield.

Adamantius