Sponge mix & Palms

[arwen_lune]

So I pried some nice recipes from the hands of Alan, the ship's cook, and I'd like to make them. Except I need sponge mix, which he assured me I would be able to get over here, but I haven't found it yet. (the name may be different?) The stuff he used was a hold-all mix, needing 500ml water to 1kg mix, and nothing else added unless you wanted flavouring in it. It was definitely a sweetened mix, so it's no neutral baking power or anything like that.

Would anyone know where to get this in the Netherlands/under what name it goes? I'm pretty sure it doesn't translate directly to 'spons'.

In other news I dropped into the shop after school to ask about my Palm, intending to make them ring the factory if they didn't know anything yet. Guy walks to the magazine and comes back with it. Grumblewhythehelldidn'ttheycallmemutter. It's been replaced with a new one, so I'll have to think of a new name for it - and best of all there was no nota with it, despite it being a month past the warrenty date. I'm very happy with having it back!

An abridged report of my sailing adventures will be up somewhere soon. The unabridged version may be longer.

Comments

Sponge Mix

[sierra-le-oli.livejournal.com]

Jennifer has one of those Brits in NL books that has info on where to find stuff like this, so you could try asking her. That's how I found where to buy baking soda.

Re: Sponge Mix

[ahruman.livejournal.com]

I assume sponge mix is mix for sponge cake? In Swedish, sponge cake is sockerkaka, literally sugar cake. Is there a parallell to that in Dutch?

Re: Sponge Mix

[sierra-le-oli.livejournal.com]

Sponge cake is sponscake but it's not that common in NL. I think the closest thing might be eierkoek (lit. "egg cake") but I suspect Arwen would have trouble finding eierkoekmix too.

Coming from NZ, I couldn't understand where Dutch people found their baking ingredients in order to bake stuff. The answer was, of course, that they didn't. *g*

Re: Sponge Mix

[ahruman.livejournal.com]

Baking ingredients? You mean eggs, sugar, flour...?

Re: Sponge Mix

[sierra-le-oli.livejournal.com]

Not quite that bad. :-) I mean stuff like baking soda and cream of tartar, which I think of as basic ingredients.

On the up side, chocolate sprinkles in the Netherlands are made of real chocolate unlike what some people wind up putting on their cakes.