6 August 2021

 All-Bran Tea Bread Loaf (Mary Berry)

350g mixed dried fruit (KAF Baker's Fruit Blend)

225g sugar

300g cold tea

150g self raising flour (White Lily)

150g All-Bran

1 egg

Soak fruit and sugar in tea overnight. Add remaining ingredients to fruit. Bake at 350°F for about an hour.

Exceedingly sweet. Cut fruit, sugar, or maybe even both.

4 March 2018

Petaluma Rye (Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book)

Whisk together; make a well:

750g whole wheat flour
130g rye flour
14g salt
43g buttermilk powder (calls for 300mL buttermilk, which would be added to the liquid measure)

Pour into well and mix in enough to resemble pancake batter:

175g hot water
45g honey (2T)
300mL water (because we use buttermilk powder)
26g oil (2T)
33g lemon juice (2T)

Mix in 5g instant yeast (7g active dry) and mix until dough comes together. Kneading will take a good 20 minutes. First rise: about an hour and a half, depending on temp. Second rise should take about half the time of the first rise. Shape and proof. Bake at 350*F about 45 minutes.

This was excellent.
Grapefruit Curd

Zest of one grapefruit (8g)
130g juice (from one grapefruit)
3 eggs
75g sugar
56g unsalted butter
pinch salt

Yielded 1 3/4c. I think grapefruit is best as marmalade.
Ham, Spinach, & Goat Cheese Crêpes (Classic Mary Berry, modified)

9oz teenage spinach, wilted & chopped (calls for 11oz baby)
4oz neufchatel cheese (calls for cream cheese)
150g goat cheese (calls for 100g)
2tsp whole grain mustard
100g diced ham
1/2tsp salt (calls for salt to taste)
pepper to taste

Green Chile Stew

1000g pork, cubed
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1/2c posole, soaked
1c black beans, cooked
1# green chiles, chopped (medium hot)
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 small potatoes, cubed
14-oz can diced tomatoes
water to cover

This was one of our better ones.

18 February 2018

French Pancakes (Mary Berry and Alison Uttley)

4T butter, softened
65g sugar (1/3c)
2 eggs, beaten
70g flour (1/2c self raising)
1 1/4c milk, heated to just below boiling

Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs gradually. Fold in the flour. Stir in the milk. Bake about 20 minutes at 375*F.

Mary Berry calls for a 3" muffin tin; I wonder if a muffin top tin would work better. Alison Uttley baked hers in tea saucers.

Alison Uttley's recipe doesn't call for any raising agent. She also specifies warm milk, but that the milk will curdle the eggs. That sounds more on the hot side to me.

Very sweet, but quite tasty. I'd cut the sugar a bit next time.


Best Ever Brownies (Mary Berry)

375g chocolate (Lindt 78%)
250g margarine (butter)
2tsp instant coffee (espresso powder)
2T hot water
2 eggs
250g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla (1 capful)
90g self raising flour
175g walnut pieces
250g chocolate chips

Melt chocolate and butter together. Dissolve espresso in hot water. Stir in eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Beat in chocolate. Fold in flour and walnuts, then chocolate chips. Pour into greased and parchmented 9x13 and bake 40-45 minutes at 375*F. Don't overbake! The crust should be dull and crisp and the center gooey.

I overbaked. So, good but not great. Also, I'll cut the butter next time.


Garam Masala (Serious Eats, halved)

3-4 green cardamom pods, husked
10g coriander
5g cumin
6g black pepper
2g cloves
2g fennel
3g cinnamon (1.5")
0.5g star anise (1 podlet)
1g ground nutmeg or mace

Toast all but the nutmeg/mace (2 minutes or so, over medium heat). Add nutmeg/mace and grind.


Kartoffel-Strudel

Strudelteig: (strudel dough)

250g Mehl (flour)
2 El Öl (2T oil)
150mL Wasser (water)
Salz (salt)

Fülle: (filling)

800g Kartoffeln roh (raw potatoes)
1 Stk Zwiebel (?unit? onion)
1 Stk Knoblauchzehe (?unit? garlic)
250g Sauerrahm (sour cream)
1 Stk Hühnerei Eigelb (chicken egg yolk)
100g Käse, beliebig (cheese, optional)
Salz, Pfeffer, Muskatnuss (salt, pepper, nutmeg)

125g flour
1T oil
75mL water
1/2tsp salt

400g potato, grated
1/2 medium onion
1 clove garlic
125g greek-style yogurt
1 bantam egg yolk