美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR Taste Test: Upside Down Cake To Turn Your Holiday Party All The Way Up
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
We met up with pastry 2 chef Aggie Chin again this past week to bring you her recommendation for a family-style dessert perfect for a holiday dinner, pear upside-down spice cake.
AGGIE CHIN: I love pears and apples and those types of, like, white fruits for the holidays, just because they can kind of take on whatever flavor that you're cooking with.
CHANG: Oh, I never realized that. It's like the tofu of fruit (laughter).
CHIN: Right, kind of - exactly. I mean, the flavor itself is really nice. But if you think of apple pie, a lot of times, like, you think of, like, the cinnamon and ginger 3 and the spices, and so that's kind of similar with this cake.
CHANG: OK. So you're - are an expert peeler.
CHIN: So (laughter)...
CHANG: Look at her go.
CHIN: So I'm just peeling it along the length of the pear. You'll probably need between one and a half to two pears for each cake, depending on the size. This is a 9-inch cake so it's good for, you know, up to 12 people.
CHANG: These pears are so spotted 4. They're, like, super ripe.
CHIN: You know, my family doesn't really like things terribly sweet. So the riper the fruit, the less sugar you have to supplement with.
CHANG: So you're arranging them like a big sunburst, like a pear flower almost.
CHIN: Right.
CHANG: All right, so that's the bottom...
CHIN: Right.
CHANG: ...Of what will be the top of an upside-down cake.
CHIN: Exactly.
CHANG: OK.
CHIN: And so now for the cake - in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment 5, you just want to put the butter and sugar. We're going to cream this until it's, you know, light and fluffy 6.
(SOUNDBITE OF MIXER WHIRRING)
CHANG: Once the butter and sugar reach that light and fluffy consistency 7, Aggie added an egg, then some vegetable oil and yogurt. Then she pulled out a little ramekin of a sauce I couldn't quite identify.
CHIN: This is a little bit of pear sauce that I made. When you're cutting the pears, if you have extra you can use that, or you can just use applesauce bought from the store. The dry ingredients are flour, baking soda 8, salt and then ground cinnamon, ground ginger and cardamom ground.
CHANG: Can you use fresh ginger or you...
CHIN: You can. You can definitely use fresh ginger. And you can always swap 9 these spices depending on what you like and what your flavor preferences are.
CHANG: Then Aggie spooned the batter 10 carefully over the pears arranged in the pan and smoothed the batter with an offset 11 spatula 12.
CHIN: So then we'll stick this in the oven at 350 for - check in in about 30 minutes. When it's done, the sides will kind of pull away...
CHANG: OK.
CHIN: ...From the edge of the pan. And you can test it with a toothpick or a cake tester, and it'll come out clean.
(SOUNDBITE OF OVEN DOOR CLOSING)
CHIN: That's it.
CHANG: So why did you choose to make this cake - 'cause we asked you...
CHIN: Right.
CHANG: ...Aggie, bring in something that's, like, great for a family.
CHIN: Family, yeah.
CHANG: What is it about this cake that's great for a family?
CHIN: Well, I think it's great for a number of reasons. A, it's very easy to make, and it's fast. So if you're cooking a big meal, this doesn't have to be an added point of stress.
CHANG: Yeah. Yeah, that's important.
CHIN: So it's very easy. Yeah. This is delicious when it's warm straight out of the oven. It's also great the next day when it's - once it's cold. My dad actually prefers this for breakfast.
CHANG: Really?
CHIN: Yeah (laughter). Whenever I make dessert, he rarely eats it that night after dinner.
CHANG: Maybe he's too full.
CHIN: Yeah. So he'll always wait. And he'll say, I'll have this tomorrow. So he'll have the piece or two pieces the next day either for breakfast or with coffee as, like, a mid-morning, mid-afternoon snack. To me, these spices and these flavors kind of represent the holidays. It's comforting to me...
CHANG: It is comforting.
CHIN: ...Like, the flavors and the texture 13 also. It's like a warm blanket in a dish.
(SOUNDBITE OF VINCE GUARALDI TRIO'S "SKATING")
CHANG: That was pastry chef Aggie Chin. She'll be back again next week with recipes for a festive 14 New Year's Eve dinner.
(SOUNDBITE OF VINCE GUARALDI TRIO'S "SKATING")
- Maybe I will buy a Aggie ring next year when I have money.也许明年等我有了钱，我也会订一枚毕业生戒指吧。
- The Aggie replied,"sir,I believe that would be giddy-up."这个大学生慢条斯理的说，“先生，我相信是昏死过去。”
- The cook pricked a few holes in the pastry.厨师在馅饼上戳了几个洞。
- The pastry crust was always underdone.馅饼的壳皮常常烤得不透。
- There is no ginger in the young man.这个年轻人没有精神。
- Ginger shall be hot in the mouth.生姜吃到嘴里总是辣的。
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
- She has a great attachment to her sister.她十分依恋她的姐姐。
- She's on attachment to the Ministry of Defense.她现在隶属于国防部。
- Newly hatched chicks are like fluffy balls.刚孵出的小鸡像绒毛球。
- The steamed bread is very fluffy.馒头很暄。
- Your behaviour lacks consistency.你的行为缺乏一贯性。
- We appreciate the consistency and stability in China and in Chinese politics.我们赞赏中国及其政策的连续性和稳定性。
- She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
- I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
- I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
- This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。
- The batter skied to the center fielder.击球手打出一个高飞球到中外野手。
- Put a small quantity of sugar into the batter.在面糊里放少量的糖。
- Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
- He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。
- He scraped the mixture out of the bowl with a plastic spatula.他用塑料铲把盆里的混合料刮了出来。
- She levelled the surface of the cake mixtured with a metal spatula.她用金属铲抹平了蛋糕配料。
- We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
- Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。