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For Saturday night’s dinner, I made ratatouille. I got behind and explained to my husband that my sous chef had not come into work, nor did the dishwasher. 😊 It was a late dinner. We had the ratatouille over some mixed, mostly brown rice, with some of the turkey breast that my husband roasted earlier this week.
Skeptic--my stepson is happily branching out after having eaten half of a blueberry pie. 🙂
On Friday evening, I started an experiment. I have a recipe for Maple Breakfast Buns that came out of Breads, Breads, and More Breads, a Pillsbury booklet from the 1980s. It has been a longtime favorite. Although it is titled “buns,” these are a roll with a brown sugar maple filling. Last time I made them, I worked in some white whole wheat flour (1 cup), added ¼ cup special dry milk, added 2 Tbs. flax meal, and used the special Gold yeast. The results were good, but I want to get the rolls a bit lighter in texture and increase their keeping quality. I substituted in ¾ cup buttermilk for that much water and pre-soaked the ½ cup of oats in it. I also added a egg, which meant that I ended up needing about 3 Tbs. more flour; I put in 2 Tbs., and it was slightly sticky but ok to pat out and shape. After the dough rises, I will make the filling and shape it, then refrigerate overnight and bake it in the morning.
The regular filling is 1/2 cup brown sugar plus 1/2 tsp. maple extract. I wondered about using maple sugar, which would not have been readily available when the recipe was published, but after looking at some internet recipes, I'll stick with the regular filling.
After I bake them tomorrow, however, I may try the maple syrup glaze that KAF has for one of its doughnut recipes.
It's an interesting recipe that uses a technique--adding baking powder--that King Arthur also uses upon occasion. I do not understand the supposedly health conscious fascination with coconut sugar or coconut whatever.
I've made the cinnamon rolls in the King Arthur Wholegrain Baking Book and substituted some oil for the butter (except in the frosting), and it is still a favorite recipe with my husband. I find the texture slightly dense, but the filling and a bit of frosting make up for it.
I also have an oat maple roll recipe that I got from a Pillsbury booklet years ago. It has only a token amount of oats, but I've subbed in some brown sugar. It also did well with an oil substitution.
I've suddenly developed an urge to bake cinnamon rolls. I need to be able to bake something for my husband's family reunion. We are staying at a place with a kitchen, and these occasions seem to bring out a kind of culinary one-upmanship, or at least focus on the recipes of one family that bring out its memories. His cousins are all into butter. (One told me that I should forget about the dietary changes and just take the cholesterol lowering drug.) They also appear to be whole wheat flour adverse--and some people do taste it as bitter--but I have worked in white whole wheat flour as well as barley or oats and no one noticed. (They do make their feelings known.) There will be fourteen of us at some meals, so I will need at least 16 rolls, and I'll need to be able to park the shaped sweet rolls overnight in the refrigerator.
I have the "Snails" recipe from the mother of one of the families. I can tweak it for less butter. It had no filling with it, so I would need to look at fillings.
I will experiment tonight--while my younger stepson is still here to eat some of what I produce. It won't be Level 1--because Level 1 seems to require copious amounts of butter--but I will NOT be using pizza dough. (Couldn't the Level 3 baker have just bought prepared bread dough?)
