When making dense fruit cakes such as a Christmas cake, the batter needs to be heavy enough for the dried fruit and nuts to be suspended in it; if it's too thin the fruit will sink to the bottom.

you can find agar agar in the ultimate Cantonese comfort food, almond Jell-O and fruit cocktail. It can also be found closer ...

The trick to getting a sponge cake to rise is to mix the wet ingredients ... is used to make sponge cakes such as the Victoria sponges and fruit cakes. Whisked sponges contain no butter, and ...

Olive Oil gives not only gives this fruit cake an incredible tenderness and moistness (no more dry horrid fruit cake!) but it also lends a gorgeous fruity herbaceous flavour that lifts a “plain ...

For the strawberries and kiwi, you can cut them into slices. Set aside. Make the fruit glaze: Place 1 tablespoon strawberry ...

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Melt the butter, sugar and stout in a saucepan. Add the orange rind and all the fruit, except the cherries. Bring the mixture to the boil and boil for 3-4 minutes ...

Dr. Joshua C. Agar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University. Prior to Drexel, Joshua was an Assistant Professor in the Department of ...

This agar is used to identify organisms that are capable of producing the enzyme lipase. This enzyme is secreted and hydrolyzes triglycerides to glycerol and three long chain fatty acids. These ...

Thus organisms capable of lactose fermentation such as Escherichia coli, form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here). MacConkey agar is commonly used to differentiate between the ...

The cases all pointed to the same suspect: agar. Agar is and has been a staple of microbiology labs for a century. “We buy it in bulk. We buy kilograms at a time,” Protacio told me.

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...

The latest high-profile claim that our problems emanate from the rise of the radical right wing came from American late-night TV talk host Stephen Colbert during his softball visit with Canadian ...