Apprentice for hire - free of charge!

My mother-in-law has a limited repertoire,but her cheesecake, pound cake, apple cake, cherry cake, plum cake and buttercream cakes are all awesome. I'll see if she wants an apprentice! :D

You could always cheat and buy some Filo..just roll it and away you go. No-one would ever know.

Kind of reticent to reply here (as it seems like I am blowing my own horn (whistle)...but I could guide you thru the process of lovely, flakey pastry and adapt it to many fine creations...and seeings you have a Food processor, I can simplify the proceedure for you! BUT I cannot, post a recipe here, so am sending you a friend request..and then I will walk you thru a simple process of a No-Fail Pastry..light and flaky! Otherwise I would suggest a visit, but I think (if I remember correctly) you life in the U.K.? Cheers!

My mother LOVED to make cakes. I don't bake. She loved to cook. I don't cook (at least I don't like to.) She could reproduce something she ate somewhere else. Yeah - me either. So, I'd have to say it won't be me making that offer to you, I'm afraid! I love eating good food. I just don't like creating it.

Hey, p1ke.....I was raised by an aunt but she wouldn't let me in the kitchen to learn to do the cooking. So I taught myself when I got out on my own. Subsequently I've become a whiz in the kitchen. I make everything from 'scratch'. So, sure, come on over to Kentucky and I'll gladly teach you all I know. But that means you'll have to be here for an extended stay. However an alternate solution would be for you to get a few good cookbooks and teach yourself. It isn't difficult.

Hi p1key! I would love to adopt you! Don't know anything about making first class pastry or any pastry, but I sure do make a mean cake mix and canned frosting! Never quite got the hang of "baking from scratch". And by the way, I also love eating the batter. I had a girlfriend who when we were in our teens we would whip up the cake mix and eat the whole thing without ever baking the cake! Damn was that ever the best!

I am still waiting for that FR...so that I can have you baking those wonderful mince tarts, butter tarts, pecan pies..et al, for the festive season! Each morning I diligently check the requests!

hi pikey oh my its been over four years I have been stuck in this tiresome retirement center. I used to bake pretty darned good cakes myself , but pies were just so so.Puddings I was always good at but too old to give lessons now he he,.but why not try some of the recipes on the web as there are some good ones that anyone can make really good stuff with them.Pastry is tricky and my mom tried to show me but it did not really take but cakes I made the best lol loll.I made one for my mo ms birthday in February way back when I was ten and tinted it lilac. it rose. It really was delicious b t my dad just looked at that lilac colored cake and laughed then he tasted it and raved. wow was I proud. I must admit now as an adult a lilac colored cake might give me pause yet that is my favorite color too.My moms birth stone was amethyst.

Why not raise your standards P1kef!sh? A chap like you could surely manage an adoption where a nice lady just FEEDS you first class pastry, cakes, pies and puddings?

I don't know cooking. I seldom go to kitchen. My wife do this. I only know to make omelet. I like boiled and smashed potato mixed with green chili,onion and mustard oil. It is so delicious.