Kitchen Hacking
Dec. 28th, 2008 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseHow do you get tea stains off your cups? I dumped my favorite cup in the sink with pork marinade, and I can't tell if the soap, vinegar, oil, spices, or alchemical combination did a number on the stains.
The last time I made my favorite butterscotch walnut cookies, they came out flatter than pancakes. Adding twice as much flour as usual soaked up the grease, but messed with the flavor. I blame that evening's pouring rain, and also the brown sugar, and possibly the butter. The batch before that - made with margarine - turned out fantastic. Obviously, I need to set up a controlled experiment. Yum, cookie experiment! For reference:
Butterscotch Walnut Cookies (from the 1974 Joy of Cooking)
1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick)
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup + 1 tsbp flour (vile lies; I always use at least a cup)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 to 1 cup crushed walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 (give or take +25 degrees). Melt butter in a saucepan. Stir brown sugar into it until dissolved. Cool slightly, then beat in well egg and vanilla. Sift and measure flour, then resift with baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture. Add walnuts. Drop well apart on greased cookie sheet (I use parchment paper instead) and bake forsix 10-12 minutes.
Having navigated Christmas dinner, I'm getting ambitious: since it's dough and assorted toppings, homemade pizza might actually be free of
Wow, it's truth on the internet! I'm third-gen American, and I still think, "how are you?" is supposed to be answered honestly. Bluntly, even.
The last time I made my favorite butterscotch walnut cookies, they came out flatter than pancakes. Adding twice as much flour as usual soaked up the grease, but messed with the flavor. I blame that evening's pouring rain, and also the brown sugar, and possibly the butter. The batch before that - made with margarine - turned out fantastic. Obviously, I need to set up a controlled experiment. Yum, cookie experiment! For reference:
Butterscotch Walnut Cookies (from the 1974 Joy of Cooking)
1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick)
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup + 1 tsbp flour (vile lies; I always use at least a cup)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 to 1 cup crushed walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 (give or take +25 degrees). Melt butter in a saucepan. Stir brown sugar into it until dissolved. Cool slightly, then beat in well egg and vanilla. Sift and measure flour, then resift with baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture. Add walnuts. Drop well apart on greased cookie sheet (I use parchment paper instead) and bake for
Having navigated Christmas dinner, I'm getting ambitious: since it's dough and assorted toppings, homemade pizza might actually be free of
Wow, it's truth on the internet! I'm third-gen American, and I still think, "how are you?" is supposed to be answered honestly. Bluntly, even.
