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Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
Cooking: Terms and What They Mean
1949 0h 10m EN
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4.7
SKIP
★4.7TMDB · 3
Synopsis
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Margie Blake, a young bride just back from her honeymoon, wants to impress her husband Tim by baking a delicious chocolate cake for his lunch. But she assumes the recipe direction to "cream" the butter means adding dairy cream to the recipe, which ruins the cake. This educational short film explains the meaning of the cooking term "cream" along with other unusual terms such as "fold", "soft ball stage", "knead", "braise", "dredge", "marinate", "scallop", "white sauce", "scald", and "sheet from spoon test". Margie learns that all good cookbooks have a glossary in the back, defining cooking terms for the new cook. Meanwhile, she has time to bake another cake for her husband.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Arthur H. Wolf
- Writers
- Margaret Travis
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Arthur H. Wolf directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 277 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4IMDB entry: tt0413923 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 5Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 10 min · 0h 10m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Arthur H. Wolf
Production companies
Who made it
- CE
Centron Corporation
US
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Physical1949-01-05
