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What is the difference between "batter" and "cake mix"?
Mind you, most of us wouldn't recommend covering a Mars Bar in savoury batter and deep-frying it but most of Scotland would disagree!You can cover fish in batter and deep fry it for fish and chips. I wouldn't recommend covering fish in cake mix and frying it. Batter can be savoury.
Isn't that how fishcakes are made?I wouldn't recommend covering fish in cake mix and frying it.
Fish in cherry batter- sounds wonderful.Isn't that how fishcakes are made?
Batter is wet. It's the final form of the product before it is baked. A cake mix is the dry ingredients, pre-measured for you. You need to add eggs, oil, water typically to make the batter from the mix.
That's definitely different in the UK. Whilst it is possible to buy ready-made cake mix in packets/boxes, most people make cakes from scratch. After you've mixed all the ingredients together and are ready to pour it into the tin for baking, it's cake mix. I'm sure one thing is the same all over the world - the best bit for kids is being allowed to scrape the remaining mix off the sides of the bowl and lick the spoon clean.Batter is wet. It's the final form of the product before it is baked. A cake mix is the dry ingredients, pre-measured for you. You need to add eggs, oil, water typically to make the batter from the mix.
Mind you, most of us wouldn't recommend covering a Mars Bar in savoury batter and deep-frying it but most of Scotland would disagree!
For those who might be interested, a brief history of the origin of packaged cake mixes can be found here.An interesting little sidebar from Malcolm Gladwell. When boxed cake mixes were first introduced, they contained dry powdered egg and all that had to be added was water, but they were a flop in the market. Only when they were changed so that eggs had to be added did they begin to sell well.
That may be true of the people you know, but there seem to be a lot of cake mixes on the shelves if it's universally true.That's definitely different in the UK. Whilst it is possible to buy ready-made cake mix in packets/boxes, most people make cakes from scratch.
I had to Google that one to make sure.On the savory(?) side, there are things like deep fried butter (popular both as nuggets and entire stick form)
That's definitely different in the UK. Whilst it is possible to buy ready-made cake mix in packets/boxes, most people make cakes from scratch.
While 'most people make cakes from scratch' in the UK, statistics based on the U.S. Census data and Simmons National Consumer Survey (NHCS) indicate 186.18 million Americans used dry cake mixes (not cake flour) in 2020. SourceThat may be true of the people you know, but there seem to be a lot of cake mixes on the shelves if it's universally true.
I've never tried it, but then again I don't eat butter straight, although Simon Leach (of the British potting family dynasty) does.I had to Google that one to make sure.