Because I have nothing better to do, or at least am under that impression, and was curious about why it is called a Bundt pan and not a Dalquist pan (which is ever so much more Minnesota-y), I went ahead and found this in the Washington Post:
"Mr. Dalquist designed the pan in 1950 at the request of members of the Minneapolis chapter of the Hadassah Society. They had old ceramic cake pans of somewhat similar designs but wanted an aluminum pan."
"The women from the society called the pans "bund pans" because "bund" is German for a gathering of people. Mr. Dalquist added a "t" to the end of "bund" and trademarked the name."
Having grown up in the Midwest and eaten, or rather, tasted, many bad cake-mix Bundt cakes, I am at a loss as to how to feel about this. I'm sure a rose-flavored one is most excellent.
RIP Herr Dalquist, from one who prefers her loaf cake pans with embossed bottoms.
Kay
Thank you so much for the Betty Crocker link. Hidden Sloppy Joes, a concept from which I will be a long time recovering. However, Bundt cakes in general are (as she who is wrongly incarcerated would say)a very good thing. Should you know of a heavily streuseled Bundt coffe cake (without a yummy fruity filling) please let me know.
Alas, and I will miss the rose-flavored cake and knitting clinic since I'll be flying eastward. But I do read patterns pretty well, even if I don't follow them much.
And as for the bundt cake notices, thank you. Was happy to help my mother supply the church potluck on Sunday past with an applesauce bundt (and a chicken hotdish).
Yes, we're in the Pacific NW, and it's not a Lutheran church, but church potlucks everywhere call for certain contributions, and I am not one to break tradition--regardless of what my reading of Derrida might indicate.
Oh Lord - this does nothing to assuage my craving for a new, fancy Bundt pan to replace my old work horse which went south quite a while ago.
Unfortunately, as weight loss is desireable, the presence of a Bundt pan would just be entirely too much temptation. Maybe next year...
I'd missed Mr. Dalquist's passing, caught up as I was in the death of Will Eisner, inventor of "The Spirit" comic strip, and seminal influence on generations of graphic illustrators. Now I think I'll bake a cake in both their memories...
-K.
I hadn't realized how modern bundt pans were. I have a cathedral one, but it's really hard to clean; something about getting crumbs out of flying buttresses strikes me as odd. Still, I do like how the finished product looks.
As for fountain pens, I use Lamy Safaris. They have a little window that lets you see what color the ink is. My favorite, though, is the Lamy Vista: http://www.pendemonium.com/pens_lamy.htm . Because it's clear, I can see the color of the ink (and it tempts me to buy other inks in even more interesting colors...)
Every year, you know, we have the flaming plum pudding with the thrippence hidden inside, and whatever lucky gal (or dad, but he never does) gets the coin, gets good luck all year. You know how it goes. But now I think you MUST get a little teeny tiny piece of a cathedral, just a crumb of a brick and bake it inside a cathedral bundt cake. Eaters must be very careful of their teeth. But it would be a hit.
Or is that just me?
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