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Irving
Jun 21, 2003

Rurutia posted:

Trendy food...

That sounds weird to me for some reason. Food was always one of those things that was somewhat 'timeless' to me.

There definitely are trends, if you ever get your hands on older editions of Joy of Cooking and such you'll find all sorts of things that have pretty firmly gone out of style (savory gelatin stuff, cold dishes with mayo slathered all over the outside, etc.) As an example:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html

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Irving
Jun 21, 2003

four lean hounds posted:

QUESTION: What are some of the more "table-stable" icings? I will be making another cake this year and would really like to not give anybody food poisoning. The cake sits out all day and I live in terror of the icing going off. I think my recipe now consists of butter, shortening and powdered sugar. Is that safe to leave in a room-temperature place for hours?

I've never heard of icing going off. If you don't even have milk in your frosting, you're probably fine. The cake seems like it would be more in danger being full of eggs and such, but again, I've never heard of a cake going "off" in a few hours. If you live in a hot place, though, your icing might start melting a bit.

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