So sad to hear the news about Doris yesterday. I love her so much! After living under a misapprehension that she was a twee, girl next door type for many years I actually WATCHED one of her films (Pillow Talk) and immediately became a big fan. She is utterly fabulous and so funny. The news...
I wanted to make a special cake for Battenburg Belle’s birthday and this is the most special one that I know of. Claudette says to get hold of an angel cake and then give it the lemony treatment by making a lemon curd filling and a lemon icing dribbled over the top. Angel cakes make...
Behold the splendor of this Angel Cake made to Rita’s recipe by Evanio Alves in Rio de Janeiro! I’m so thrilled to have a reader in Ipanema, and he test cooks for me too! I’m so jealous of his cake, mine never looks like this…. I’m thinking I should buy a proper metal tube pan,...
The plan tonight was to make a Claudette Colbert Cake for James Rumsey’s homecoming. But I suddenly remembered James saying he didn’t like lemony things so a Rita Hayworth Cake it is instead. It is smelling GOOD. Am very pleased to report a lovely date number 2 with Mr PH. He really is very charming. ...
Ooh, I had an outfit a bit like that on Second Life. Been so long since I went there though I’ll have forgotten how to do everything I’m sure. I did enjoy meditating by the fountains with doves flying around though. Oh and I did like my little witches’ familiar – a little owl with...
Oh my goodness Rita was so gorgeous. Here’s a picture for fans of “opera gloves” – there is a whole site dedicated to film stars wearing opera gloves somewhere in this crazy world that is the internet. There’s an Angel (Dust) Food Cake in the oven. I’m trying a new technique – cooking it on...
I’ve been putting off testing this as it looked like a bit of a challenge. It was, but it was worth it! Basically I made a Rita Hayworth’s Angel Cake then followed Claudette’s instructions for fancifying it with home made lemon curd filling and lemony frosting. Oh YUMSKI as my French colleague Marie-Agathe put it....
Hello Sailor! Definitely feeling full of the joys of spring now that I have successfully made an Angel Food Cake. There is a picture of it on the flickr site – I personally have never seen anything like it! http://www.flickr.com/photos/fritzyritz/4414358525/ The secret is obviously all in the whipping. Last time I tried to whip the...
I am seeing my Shellac Sister Jean this evening and I’d forgotten that she had quite a success with the Rita Hayworth cake. We are DJing at Kokos in Camden (formerly the Camden Palace) and I’m going to ask her about her egg white whisking between discs. It’s the first time I have really felt...
“We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.“ Hmm, but what does destiny have in store for me Rita, Rita Peanut Eater? I have a Rita Hayworth’s Angel’s Food Cake in the oven, to be followed by a Gloria Swanson’s Devil’s Food Cake. These are for a...
“After all, a girl is – well, a girl.It’s nice to be told you’re successful at it.” I should say you were Rita! Extremely successful at it! I’m going to be channeling Rita’s spirit during my birthday week. I have bought myself a birthday gift – heated rollers – and will be attempting to...
“After all, a girl is – well, a girl. It’s nice to be told you’re successful at it.” My new (and most expensive ever) film star recipe book has arrived on my doorstep and I am beside myself with excitement. There are some super fab recipes in there including one (at last) by Rita Hayworth....
