CTIHM holds cake-mixing ceremony

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 7

Holding pre-Christmas celebrations, the Department of Hotel Management of CT Institute (CTIHM) organised a cake mixing ceremony at its South Campus, Shahpur.

Spreading the cheer along with the budding chefs, it invited the participation of executive chefs, human resource heads from various hotels like Ramada Encore, Best Western to name a few, CT Management and corporate guests and in-house guests were dressed in typical chef’s attire of. The guests and colleagues together rolled up their sleeves and put their hands in the mixing pots to make a delicious Christmas cake.

An interesting array of fruits, including raisins, glazed red cherries, orange peel, tutti-frutti, black currants, dates, figs, dried apricots, prunes and walnuts, cashew, almond flakes and pistachio, aside from spices such as ground cardamom, cinnamon and cloves were poured into a caldron.

The mixing reached a spirited level when endless bottles of liquors, such as whisky, white and dark rum, vodka, gin, wine, beer and syrups like golden syrup, molasses, honey and vanilla essence were added. The mixture was put into airtight bags and left to mature until around Christmas.