{"id":2510,"date":"2020-05-12T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodfoodeateat.co.uk\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:39:26","slug":"the-bogtrotter-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodfoodeateat.co.uk\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"The Bogtrotter Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This&#8230; Is a Bogtrotter cake:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"\/chocolate-cake\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Chocolate cake<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">From Sam\u2019s pot to Lisa\u2019s stomach<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/foodfoodeateat.co.uk\/favicon.ico\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">Samuel Allaby<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Food Food Eat Eat<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foodfoodeateat.co.uk\/content\/images\/2019\/10\/20191012_212415.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>There are no words to accompany it, but that is what it was researched to be, designed and implemented to be \u00a0100% pure Bogtrotter. \u00a0It was excellent; moist but still flavoursome, great toothsome texture. \u00a0It imitated the barely describable chocolatey siren-song of the Matilda cake quite beautifully. \u00a0The main problem here being that I can&#8217;t recreate it. \u00a0The lack of documentation about the process, about the origins of the recipe, means that I&#8217;m left floundering about in the narrow hollows of my memories for any trace of providence with little to no hope of emerging with sweet success. \u00a0 The only vague fragment I can muster is that I&#8217;m sure it contained cornflour&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like chocolate cakes, as a rule, so this feels particularly wounding that I found a great one and discarded it to the wasteland of my mind. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This must be rectified. \u00a0The following are my waypoints in the dark:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"http:\/\/treetsbytheresa.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/the-bruce-bogtrotter-cake.html\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">The Bruce Bogtrotter Cake<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">Chocolate cake is not something that I\u2019d automatically choose if given the choice. I don\u2019t know why but I\u2019m always a bit wary of this pa&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"http:\/\/treetsbytheresa.blogspot.com\/favicon.ico\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">Posted byTheresa Tang<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Treets<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pwrn_j5WE2k\/VRm6L-NFMJI\/AAAAAAAADMU\/kCexpHZRKs0\/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu\/BBC7.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>This makes mention of cornstarch, but nothing else in it triggers positive recall. \u00a0However it remains a prime suspect.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/auniquelyediblemagic.com\/recipes\/bruce-bogtrotters-chocolate-cake\/\">Bruce Bogtrotter&#8217;s Chocolate Cake \u2022 Matilda<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'><!--\/\/--><![CDATA[\/\/><!--\t\t\/*! 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