| You know what I reckon? The recipe has already been converted from imperial to metric - and not done very well at that, adding to the confusion! I do these conversions back and forth all the time, and have done so for well over 40 years, since Australia went metric (I was brought up on British imperial measurements), and I’ve never had a failure yet. Here’s my version: Dough: 210g (7 ounces) flour 110g (3 ½ ounces butter) 60g (2 ounces) sugar Mix all ingredients together and chill 1 hour in refrig. then roll out in a greased round cake pan,(spring form) make sure to have an edge of 1 1/2 inches (3cm). Filling: Cook 2 1/2 lbs (1.25kg) of plums( can be frozen bag of plums without pits) with 210 grams (7 ounces) of sugar for 10 minutes. Then add 1 + 1/2 pkgs of Jell-O instant French vanilla pudding and stir it. cook for 2 minutes. turn the filling onto the dough then you need German Streusel 75g (2 ½ ounces) of flour 75g of sugar 75g finely chopped hazel or walnuts 75g butter Mix all ingredients together until you get small streusels. More flour if too wet. Sprinkle the steusels on the filling and bake the cake for appr. 45 min. at 190C (395F). after cake cools down, decorate it with whipped cream. 210ml (7 ounces) heavy whipped cream with 1 pck of "whip it" from Dr. Oetker. sprinkle with cocoa adn that's it. I have no idea what "whip it" from Dr. Oetker might be, but I’d ignore it and use 250ml (8 ounces) of whipped cream, sweetened with sugar or honey instead. Here’s a quick rundown of the measurements I’ve always found successful. Close enough is good enough. *1oz = 30g *1 1/2oz=45g *2oz = 60g *2 1/2 oz=75g *3oz=90g *4oz=125g (a bit of rounding done at this point!) *6oz=185g 7oz=210g 8oz=250g 1lb=500g 2lb=1kg 1 teaspoon = 5g For oven temps, just roughly halve the Fahrenheit measurements and round off the results, using a bit of common sense, and being guided by the measurements given on your oven. It’s rough and ready, but it works. You’ll never find an oven which will have temperatures like ‘356F’, so it becomes 350F; similarly, you won't find a metric oven with '175C', so it becomes 170C. 350F= 180C 370F= 190C 400F=200C 250C=220-230C |