[HN Gopher] Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomat...
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       Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 79 points
       Date   : 2022-03-21 03:06 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | MisterBastahrd wrote:
       | There's a TikToker named Dylan Hollis
       | (https://www.tiktok.com/@bdylanhollis?lang=en) who specializes in
       | baking recipes out of old cookbooks to see how they turn out.
       | Always interesting to see what he finds and if those recipes are
       | palatable.
        
         | srcreigh wrote:
         | Great channel. One of his fav recipes is potato chocolate cake
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | A cup of Campbell's tomato soup has no fat, 4g of protein and 24g
       | of carbs, with 16g of added sugar and just 4g of fiber. It's
       | practically already a dessert before adding it to a cake.
        
         | mywittyname wrote:
         | Right. Tomatoes are technically berries. Which makes condensed
         | tomato soup a kind of compote.
         | 
         | Another thing about sugar is that it holds onto moisture. Most
         | of the fat in a cake is there to make the final product feel
         | moist. This is why a lot of "fat free" cakes use a boatload of
         | sugar and how it's possible to use apple sauce as a replacement
         | for oil in most batters.
        
       | Koshkin wrote:
       | Trivia: in the US, people think of tomato juice as "cold tomato
       | soup." (I imagine in Europe it's the other way around.)
        
       | usefulcat wrote:
       | If you think that's odd, have a look at Velveeta fudge (nope,
       | that's not a typo). When made correctly and kept chilled, you'd
       | never know it has Veleveeta in it. Does smell a bit odd while
       | it's being made though.
        
         | philsnow wrote:
         | Just on this subtopic, this is a great chocolate pie recipe
         | that doesn't use any dairy but instead uses silken tofu
         | https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-cho...
         | 
         | likewise, you wouldn't otherwise know that there's tofu in it.
        
         | tombert wrote:
         | There also exists Mayonnaise chocolate cake recipes, and
         | they're surprisingly not too bad.
         | 
         | I suppose it makes some sense; Mayo is basically just eggs and
         | vinegar and oil, and I've seen all of those things in sweets
         | recipes before.
        
           | enchiridion wrote:
           | Now Mayo is mostly just soybean oil.
        
             | nightski wrote:
             | We make it at home w/ olive oil (non-virgin). Takes just a
             | few minutes and it's so much better!
        
               | enchiridion wrote:
               | Nice! What's your favorite recipe.
        
           | henryfjordan wrote:
           | There's an upside-down cake recipe I like that starts with
           | you essentially making some sweet mayo before adding the
           | flour.
           | 
           | See https://more.ctv.ca/food/recipes/blood-orange-and-olive-
           | oil-... but if you like baking I really recommend buying the
           | Dessert Person book by Claire Saffitz which this recipe is
           | copied from.
        
         | randycupertino wrote:
         | Reminds me of my mother's secret pie crust recipe. It has vodka
         | in it. Comes out perfect, buttery and flaky every time!
        
         | brink wrote:
         | I've had "chocolate cheese" before. Maybe we're talking about
         | the same thing? I thought it tasted amazing.
        
           | depaya wrote:
           | Is that like Norwegian Brunost? I love the stuff and it pairs
           | remarkably well with sweet and savory food.
        
       | BaseballPhysics wrote:
       | Man, every time I read an Atlas Obscura article I enjoy it.
       | Fortunately, I just discovered they have an RSS feed (despite all
       | the rumours that RSS is dead) so it's now in my reader!
        
         | cactusmatt wrote:
         | Great tip! I just added them to my RSS reader. Long live RSS!
        
         | aerostable_slug wrote:
         | For a while I worked on a news application that depended on
         | RSS, and a client needed their number of news sources radically
         | increased for their international customer base. I discovered
         | quite a lot of news sites around the world apparently still had
         | a dusty server in a rack (or on a shelf) somewhere spewing out
         | a feed, completely untouched for a decade+. You wouldn't find
         | any links to it in the current UI, but there it was running on
         | its cron job like a good little piece of software.
         | 
         | The problem was when the feed breaks, nobody remembers they had
         | one in the first place...
        
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