A client of mine has recently talked about some problems at work and mentioned that she is having a 'session' with someone. "What session?", I asked. It's called NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming). I've heard of this before, or rather I've seen a lot of books about it when I was working at a bookshop.
Of course I google this word to find out. I still can't really figure out what exactly this is, but it looks like an interesting thing to look into, especially because Wikipedia says that there are some claims that it's a pseudoscience. I get interested in anything labelled as 'not scientifically proven'.
This subject to be continued...
Now, the cake. This was actually a failure. My expectation was that the blackberries would be all on the top, all glossy and beautiful. Instead they all sank. It still tastes the same. Very easy standard sponge cake.
Ingredients (for 20cm cake tin):
120g soft butter
100g sugar
120g self-raising flour
2 eggs
150g - 200g blackberries
Preheat oven to about 200C.
Cream the butter and sugar in a largish bowl until pale and fluffy. It's easy with an electric hand mixer. It's just that the butter has to be really soft. Crack the eggs in a small bowl (just to be sure that there's no bad ones), whisk, and add little by little to the butter and sugar mixture.
Now stop using the hand-mixer and take up a large metal spoon. Sift the flour from high into the bowl and mix gently with the spoon by folding the batter over. If it feels really stiff, add a tablespoon of milk.
Put a greaseproof paper on the bottom of the cake tin and pour the batter into the tin. Smooth the surface and scatter the blackberries. Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes.