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Yesterday, the Appliance Apocalypse struck at my house. Plus, my brain went on vacation., I made Banana Coffeecake for breakfast. After I had 3/4 of the batter in the baking dish, it occurred to me that there wasn't much batter. I had forgotten to put in the bananas! I scooped the batter out of the baking dish back into the mixing bowl, added chuncked bananas and let the stand mixer go to work.
After baking the required 25 minutes, I pulled the oven shelf out and realized the upper oven wasn't working up to temp. Instead of being done, the surface was a little brown and bubbly. I raised the oven temp twenty-five degrees and set the timer for 15 minutes. Eight or ten minutes would have been adequate, probably. When the coffeecake was fully baked, it was a little too brown on top and crusty along one edge. It tasted good, though, so mission accomplished.
In the afternoon, I tried a new recipe for dinner rolls to go with Cabbage Soup from the freezer. Using the lower oven. I found the recipe for Sour Cream Rolls at Fleischmann'sBreadworld.com. Since it's listed as a beginner recipe, I figured I could have them prepped and baked in 90 minutes and get rid of sour cream. My downfall in this recipe is that I decided to experiment with paper liners.
I had the idea that my life would be easier if I never again had to grease muffin tins. So I put paper cupcake liners in 6 of the openings to see if they work as good for yeast rolls as for muffins/cupcakes. They do not. The batter barely rose in the liners and didn't spread. After an hour rise. The ones in the greased tins looked perfect for baking. I decided to try a trick my beloved stepmother used.
She never put her bread and rolls in a preheated oven. She wanted the oven spring from the bread going into a cold oven and gradually going up to temp. I don't know if that really works, but I remember her believing it did. So I put the pan into a cold oven, hoping the gradual heating of the oven would force a rise out of the dough in paper liners. I added five extra minutes to the cooking time, which was a huge mistake. I ended up with burnt tops!
On top of that, the rolls were too oily for me with butter spread on them. Still later, I remembered why I had a lonely container of sour cream in the fridge. I have become lactose-intolerant and instead of throwing away the sour cream, I shoved it to the back of the refrigerator. Today, I will throw away 11 rolls. My husband won't eat them with the burnt tops. But at least I know not to use paper liners for yeast rolls!
I agree with you, Mike. The recipe from the 1938 cookbook doesn't sound like chop suey to me, either. My dad's recipe uses pork shoulder, not ground beef. It has no pasta and no rice. It's cooked stove top, not baked. Nevertheless, it is Americanized chop suey, and you may feel free to delete the recipe, if you want. I just posted it because it's different than the 1938 recipe I saw on You Tube.
Mike, my husband came home from Sam's today with a jar of their artichokes. I'm eager to try them on pizza, but that won't happen until June. I've always been unhappy with artichokes from the grocery, but some where in cans and some may have been marinated, so I'm glad to know about Sam's. I like artichokes.
