英语访谈对话 505 Cheesecake

 　　Akane: Hey, Ruth, how are you at cooking? Are you any good?

　　Ruth: Not really if I'm honest.

　　Akane: Oh, OK. Well, is there a one recipe that you know how cook really well?

　　Ruth: There is actually. It's chocolate cheesecake.

　　Akane: Wow! That sounds really good. So what kind of ingredients are in this chocolate cheesecake that you're talking about?

　　Ruth: Well, you need chocolate spread, digested buscuits, condensed milk, and you also need cream too.

　　Akane: Wow! And where can you buy these things?

　　Ruth: Well, normally I buy them in the supermarket. It's quite convenient.

　　Akane: OK, and it's pretty easy to find?

　　Ruth: Very easy to find. All of these ingredients.

　　Akane: And what kind of utensils¹ or equipment do you need to make this cake?

　　Ruth: Well, you need a baking tin, which has got an open bottom and you also need a whisk and you need a bowl and you need a fork, and other than that I think that's about it.

　　Akane: I see.....Now, how do you get started with this recipe? What do you do first?

　　Ruth: The first thing that you do is you crush the digested biscuits, and so that they're like crumbled², and then you heat the butter, and you add the butter to the digested biscuits.

　　Akane: OK, well that sounds easy enough. And what do you do next?

　　Ruth: Well then you leave that in the fridge for a day, then when you come back to it, you whisk the cream, you whip it up, and then you add the condensed milk to the cream with the fork very slowly, you fold it in.

　　Akane: Oh, fold it in. Is that hard to do?

　　Ruth: It's quite, yeah, it involves skill. It's quite delicate.

　　Akane: OK. Is that it? Is there any other steps?

　　Ruth: Well, then you need to heat the chocolate spread up and you need to add it to the top and fold that in as well.

　　Akane: And it's done?

　　Ruth: And then that's the end of the cheesecake.

　　Akane: Oh, OK. Now, with this recipe is there anything you need to be careful of?

　　Ruth: Not really, I mean it's quite easy, but the main thing is that you leave the digested mixture in the fridge for long enough, and then after the whole cheesecake is ready, you still have to put it back in the fridge. I'm always tempted³ to eat it immediately, but you have to wait a few hours for it to cool.

　　Akane: Oh, that sounds great. Thanks Ruth.

　　Ruth: OK.

1 utensils   

器具，用具，器皿( utensil的名词复数 )； 器物

参考例句：

• Formerly most of our household utensils were made of brass. 以前我们家庭用的器皿多数是用黄铜做的。
• Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。

2 crumbled   

（把…）弄碎， （使）碎成细屑( crumble的过去式和过去分词 )； 衰落； 坍塌； 损坏

参考例句：

• He crumbled the bread in his fingers. 他用手指把面包捻碎。
• Our hopes crumbled when the business went bankrupt. 商行破产了，我们的希望也破灭了。

3 tempted   

v.怂恿（某人）干不正当的事；冒…的险（tempt的过去分词）

参考例句：

• I was sorely tempted to complain, but I didn't. 我极想发牢骚，但还是没开口。
• I was tempted by the dessert menu. 甜食菜单馋得我垂涎欲滴。