Th random things we think about...

So cakes and biscuits are made similar ingredients - eggs, flour, butter, sugar.

Biscuits are small bitesized treats that usually (Not always) have the crunch/bite factor.
Cakes are spongy and moist.

SO why do biscuits go soft over time and cakes go hard, dry and stale?

Help me out here - its really bugging me!!!

Vanessa

I agree - it's a good question. If nobody on the forum comes up with a good explanation, you could send it to Jim Mora's panel on National Radio - they have a 'quick question' section where they refer this kind of thing to experts!

A simple google produced this result. Seems plausible.

[www.telegraph.co.uk]

Thanks Griz - I had to read it a few times to get my head around it and clearly its not a simple answer but a combination of many factors but interesting never the less.

Ha Ha I read on and have been a victim of the myth below whist in England as a Nanny - LOL it totally worked on the kids.

Can dock leaves really sooth nettle stings?
No, the myth of dock leaves soothing nettle stings arose because of parents’ desires to find something close by with which to placate their stung child.

Totally BUSTED!!!!

Vanessa



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/2017 11:48AM by Vanessa45.

Vanessa, I used to do that as a kid at home on the farm - as I recall, it's not the leaves themselves that do the trick but the milky white substance that comes out of the stalks.

It seemed to work perfectly well - maybe a case of mind over matter!

Regards,

Barbara Anne

As I recall, the milky white substance came from the stalks of dandelions, not dock leaves. I remember well placing, what was to me, a huge dock leaf along my leg and loving the cool feel of it on a leg stinging from walking through nettles. If we thought it worked, it did! Pooh to what the 'experts' are now telling us.