I baked this chocolate cake to mark Open Access week 2010, and to celebrate (belatedly) our passing 2,000 items on the Lincoln Repository. It was enjoyed over coffee in the Enterprise@Lincoln café, by colleagues from C.E.R.D., the Library, and the University Research Office, all of whom have been instrumental in making a success of our Repo.
(I did have some help with decorating it, and with creating the OA logo in white icing…)
We actually reached the 2,000-item mark on the Repository at the end of July 2010, so this cake’s been a while in the baking. On the Lincoln Academic Commons website, Joss Winn has discussed some of the stages in the development of the Repository that led to its doubling in size in only six months – including, in no small part, “the work of Rosaline, Bev and Jill in the Library, who are tireless advocates for the repository among academic staff”.
(Image created by ROAR, The Registry of Open Access Repositories.)
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Lincoln Open Access chocolate cake
The following recipe can be re-used, adapted and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Ingredients (metric equivalents are approximate):
- 4 oz (100 g) dark chocolate
- 5 oz (140 g) sugar
- 5 oz (140 g) margarine
- 10 oz (280 g) self-raising flour
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ¼ pint (140 ml) milk, warmed
- 2 eggs, beaten
Method:
- Grease two 7″ sandwich tins and line with greased baking parchment
- Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 4 (180°C; 350°F)
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water
- Cream the sugar and margarine together in a bowl
- Beat in the golden syrup, the melted chocolate, and the egg
- Dissolve the bicarb. of soda in the milk
- Slowly blend the flour and milk into the mixture, bit by bit
- Divide the mixture between the two sandwich tins
- Bake for at least 45 mins on a shelf near the top of the oven
- When cool, decorate with dark and white chocolate icing.
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Open Access week is “a global event, now [2010] in its 4th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research“. It’s not all about cake.
