tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post113075367670182621..comments2024-03-16T11:43:21.644+02:00Comments on NAMI-NAMI: a food blog: (Non-)Canadian apple cakePillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-27418891882009442602013-05-26T19:31:53.709+03:002013-05-26T19:31:53.709+03:00Väga-väga lahe, et Eesti blogia on suutnud endale ...Väga-väga lahe, et Eesti blogia on suutnud endale väikese fännbaasi tekitada :D ülimalt lahe ja ma proovisin ka retsepti järgi, väga maitsev (Y)LaLyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482160254448256771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-10726960131477779382012-12-26T13:40:24.749+02:002012-12-26T13:40:24.749+02:00lagastronomista - thrilled to hear that!
Lana - ...<b>lagastronomista</b> - thrilled to hear that!<br /><br /> <b>Lana</b> - I'm always glad to hear that another expat-Estonian has found Nami-Nami! Your theory re: the Canadianness of this cake might just be true..<br /><br /><b>Esther</b> - I'm so happy that this cake pleased you - and your apple-loving dad! Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-77023209582657094842012-12-25T10:05:40.625+02:002012-12-25T10:05:40.625+02:00I baked this cake today for Christmas lunch! My fa...I baked this cake today for Christmas lunch! My father in law is the type of person that reads the dessert menu before looking at entres and mains AND he loves anything with apple, so if there is apple pie, apple struddle or apple cake In the menu he always goes for it. So I was a bit scared of cooking an apple dessert but guess what he said today to me, 'this is the BEST apple cake I've ever had' I felt so proud :) Thank you for the recipe! Estherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16283067870078405824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-58419452820020039362011-10-31T22:43:36.604+02:002011-10-31T22:43:36.604+02:00I believe the Canadian angle on this recipe might ...I believe the Canadian angle on this recipe might be that apples (tart McIntosh in particular) are abundant in eastern Canada in the autumn, so a forefather - or more likely a foremother! - probably originally baked this cake.<br /><br />I will definitely try this. My current apple cake recipe (called 'Apple Dapple Cake") tastes great but never cooks evenly.<br /><br />Love this site. I found it after googling 'piparkoogid'. I was born in Toronto but my parents (both now passed away) emigrated from Estonia->Sweden-Canada... and I find there are a number of Estonian dishes from my childhood that I crave and wonder about. Thanks for creating this connection for people like me. - LanaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-23149807448117061672011-07-10T21:33:04.813+03:002011-07-10T21:33:04.813+03:00Out of curiosity I tried it out myself and it make...Out of curiosity I tried it out myself and it makes one fine apple cake, Canadian or not.lagastronomistahttp://kristinalupp.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-44803801502859355752011-04-18T10:20:43.351+03:002011-04-18T10:20:43.351+03:00Ene-Mai - thank you for your feedback and kind wor...Ene-Mai - thank you for your feedback and kind words about the cake. PS "Hapu Koor" is the coolest name ever for a choir :) :D<br /><br />Svenja - thank you!!! So lovely to hear that this cake is still a hit in good old Edinburgh!Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-91119757320419593682011-04-14T22:37:11.032+03:002011-04-14T22:37:11.032+03:00This is the best apple cake that I've ever tas...This is the best apple cake that I've ever tasted! I made it when I got home from work, and as soon as it came out of the oven I couldn't stop picking bits off the crumble topping and eating them! I had a hot slice with some single cream, mmmmm :) I can tell that this recipe is going to become one of my all-time favourites.Svenjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214349438785629231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-20512021189568457272011-04-13T10:18:00.130+03:002011-04-13T10:18:00.130+03:00This is the second time I have made this easy yet ...This is the second time I have made this easy yet yummy cake. Last week for an estonian choir I sing with Hapu Koor in Adelaide and tonight for an ozzie dive club meetingEne-Maihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04043247234285026487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-77950487258911559322009-09-23T20:41:09.069+03:002009-09-23T20:41:09.069+03:00Shannon - yes and no :) I lived in a student dorm ...Shannon - yes and no :) I lived in a student dorm without kitchen scales for years, and baked all my cakes using a simple 100 ml measuring cup. In the US, a cup is used both for liquids and dry goods, and all one has to remember is that 1 cup = 250 ml. As easy as that. (What I was arguing here is that I cannot see how 1 cup of flour makes sense to Americans, but 250 ml doesn't - we're talking about the exact same thing!!!)<br />I've got no problems mesuring milk or water in grams, as we were taught in school that 1 gram of water = 1 millilitre. So I know that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kg (and equals 4 cups). <br />This cake works well enough if you use volumes - I'm not giving a recipe for macaroons or other cakes that need much more precision!<br /><br />PS I now have kitchen scales, and most of my newer recipes state grams now.Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-17731244971710802632009-09-23T20:32:47.413+03:002009-09-23T20:32:47.413+03:00This recipe looks lovely, but the measures are ver...This recipe looks lovely, but the measures are very odd. Millilitres (or decilitres) are measures for LIQUIDS not dry goods such as flour and sugar. While places like the US use cups and tea/tablespoons for both liquid and dry measures instead of metric measures such as grams or ml, it's not as accurate as using the metric or weight measures (in fact large scale baking is usually done with weight measures in the US versus cups). But 250ml just doesn't make sense when you are talking about flour just as 250g wouldn't really make sense if you were talking about milk. This is why there is so much confusion about the measures you've listed. I hope that makes sense. I've grown up in the US, but now live in the UK so have both sets of measures to contend with quite often!Shannonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-81343444739436844602009-07-30T07:23:35.069+03:002009-07-30T07:23:35.069+03:00Rika - sorry to hear that your cake turned out bad...Rika - sorry to hear that your cake turned out badly. However - I take no blame for that, as it's clearly stated in the recipe that you need 300 ml of flour (100 ml of flour is about 55 grams, so 300 ml is 165 grams of flour - about half of the amount you used!)<br /><br />I'm amazed how much confusion the millilitres and decilitres (1 dl = 100 ml; there are 10 decilitres to one litre) cause in non-European readers! A cup - widely used to measure both liquids and solds in the US - is also a volume measurement (one cup being about 250 ml), so how is that different from simply stating the exact amount of millilitres? Metric measurements simply make so much more sense to someone who has grown up with them :)<br /><br />However, I have also provided a helpful Culinary Converter on the right hand side bar for any conversions you need to make.Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-57847941197236559652009-07-29T23:34:01.621+03:002009-07-29T23:34:01.621+03:00i made this cake today and i'm sorry to say th...i made this cake today and i'm sorry to say that it turned out really bad. i weighed 300 grams flour on my kitchen scale (not 300 ml - i thought ml was only used to measure fluids like milk) and as soon as i mixed it in i realised the liquid/moisture was too less! also the fat content (melted butter) is too less.<br />and sure enough the cake turned out to be tough, dry and rather biscuity (not in a good way). i think the flour measure should be closer to 150 grams, but i wouldn't try this cake out again.rikanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-69823694611888428532008-07-29T17:49:00.000+03:002008-07-29T17:49:00.000+03:00Loretta - it's much easier to provide metric measu...Loretta - it's much easier to provide metric measurements, as that's universal. A cup in the UK and US and Australia can vary from 240 ml to 260 ml, which is much more confusing. <BR/><BR/>An Australian cup is 250 ml, so 300 ml would be 1 cup and another 1/5th. 100 ml would be 2/5 of a cup. <BR/><BR/>Hope that helps.Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-4478780803417533822008-07-29T16:58:00.000+03:002008-07-29T16:58:00.000+03:00Hi there, thank you for your wonderful Apple Cake ...Hi there, thank you for your wonderful Apple Cake Recipe! It looks great! Any chance you could convert the measurements into cups and tablespoons? I'd love to make this cake but have no idea what 300ml of flour is?? Is that 1&1/2 cups or 300 grams? Sorry but just not used to these measurements in Australia. Thank you!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08715629833577456800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-77034372083788713792007-05-14T10:42:00.000+03:002007-05-14T10:42:00.000+03:00Hi there! Dropped by and saw this recipe. Wow, the...Hi there! Dropped by and saw this recipe. Wow, the crumb idea is great. Can't wait to try it. Will let u know how it turns out soon! <BR/>Btw, I can see from your pix that you used red apples - do you know if its any difference between these or the green Granny smith ones? Thanks!coffeedreameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01445156877855520347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-75239862127306441322007-04-24T14:44:00.000+03:002007-04-24T14:44:00.000+03:00Sha - thanks for sharing the recipe :-)Anonymous -...Sha - thanks for sharing the recipe :-)<BR/><BR/>Anonymous - 'ca' is an abbrevation for 'circa' or 'about'. Hope that helps:) <BR/><BR/>Nupur - so glad you enjoyed this! It's great to see that somebody is using recipes from the archive, too, thanks!<BR/><BR/>Lydia - please do try this, it's delicious!Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-56320888123279438012007-04-14T15:00:00.000+03:002007-04-14T15:00:00.000+03:00Just found this recipe this morning through Nupur'...Just found this recipe this morning through Nupur's blog. Just the kind of thing I really love to prepare for a brunch party. Thank you!Lydia (The Perfect Pantry)https://www.blogger.com/profile/18005372315838352874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-57325964860538041302007-04-14T14:38:00.000+03:002007-04-14T14:38:00.000+03:00Pille, what a lovely recipe. I tried it with a com...Pille, what a lovely recipe. I tried it with a combination of apple and pear (just what I had on hand) and it was so delicious! Thanks for sharing!Nupurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03890441057480820053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1169723775180687912007-01-25T13:16:00.000+02:002007-01-25T13:16:00.000+02:00could you please tell me what ca means? it is writ...could you please tell me what ca means? it is written before 2 apples in the ingredients list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1140568274800394382006-02-22T02:31:00.000+02:002006-02-22T02:31:00.000+02:00I SHALL TELL YOU.. THAT MY FRIEND ASKED ME TO BAKE...I SHALL TELL YOU.. THAT MY FRIEND ASKED ME TO BAKE THE CAKE AGAIN. I gave her 2 slices and SHE WANTS MORE.. am making 2 this weekend.<BR/>2!!!!!!<BR/>2 or 3 from my links will do it too<BR/>ShaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1134989486577192822005-12-19T12:51:00.000+02:002005-12-19T12:51:00.000+02:00Drstel and Zoubida - I am so happy you liked the c...Drstel and Zoubida - I am so happy you liked the cake! And Zoubida - thanks for clarifying the Canadian-ness of this cake;)Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1134584236034183202005-12-14T20:17:00.000+02:002005-12-14T20:17:00.000+02:00That was a great cake ! (notice I use the past her...That was a great cake ! (notice I use the past here because there's no cake left of course, it was liquidated this moring at breakfast...)<BR/><BR/>Pille, I heard of your (non-)canadian cake on the Baby Rambutan blog. So you see, your cake recipe seems to very popular among food bloggers...Journal Actifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16918754185045324914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1134515363198893922005-12-14T01:09:00.000+02:002005-12-14T01:09:00.000+02:00I'm making this cake TONIGHT ! It looks too good t...I'm making this cake TONIGHT ! It looks too good to suffer any delay in the making!<BR/><BR/>My 3 young boys will certainly thank you tomorrow when they see it on the kitchen table.<BR/><BR/>I'm not canadian from birth, I'm living here since 11 years now. I can see why it was said to be canadian. It looks like the kind of coffee cakes my very canadian neighbour (she's from New-Found-Land) makes often and serves when the 4 housewives of the street gather at her place around an afternoon coffee while the kids are napping.<BR/><BR/>If you don't mind, I'll post a picture of the cake on my blog and give the link to the recipe on yours. Is it OK?Journal Actifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16918754185045324914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1134361216446795272005-12-12T06:20:00.000+02:002005-12-12T06:20:00.000+02:00i made this today...and it is almost gone just a f...i made this today...and it is almost gone just a few hours later-- my 3 kids and husband devoured it. thanks for this! their only complaint: cake is too small mom :DAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08367038970219118940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1133707983904973852005-12-04T16:53:00.000+02:002005-12-04T16:53:00.000+02:00Anne - I'm so pleased you liked the cake!!!Anne - I'm so pleased you liked the cake!!!Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.com