Mike Nolan
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Substituting butter for shortening get tricky, because shortening is all fat and butter is 20% water, and butter is a fat that melts at a lower temperature, too.
Raw red onions are used more for their color than flavor, when you cook them the color pretty much goes away.
I used to make onion soup using half red and half yellow onions, just because the recipe I was using called for that.
White onions are stronger than either red or yellow onions.
Sweet onions are entirely different, ordinary yellow onions get pretty sweet if you caramelize them. I made a batch of French onion soup with Vidalia onions once, it was almost too sweet to eat.
We've cut back on the amount of sweet corn we eat, it's really high in carbs. Plus, with just 2 of us, even a half dozen ears will last a while.
We made the rest of the tortellini tonight, it was from Costco, I plan to buy more.
The semolina/malt bread came out really dense, it almost looks like it had been baked in a pullman pan. Slices really thin as a result, very good with Cardinal Preserves.
These appear to be Quilon sheets, which technically aren't parchment but are what many commercial bakers use. I have a box of them, they brown a little faster than parchment does and I seldom even try to reuse one.
See Quilon sheets
My fault, the preview question and the actual question didn't match up, the preview one was missing 'not'.
I'm making a loaf of bread today, using the Austrian Malt Bread recipe but with 50% semolina and 50% AP.
We had cheese tortellini and a salad.
The one-way signs on the grocery store aisles would be less annoying if the aisles weren't so long! I'm convinced they add several minutes to an otherwise well-planned shopping trip.
The amount and value of information made available to US retail flour consumers is pitiful. Large-scale customers can get detailed reports on their flour, though I still see a fair number of posts on the BBGA forum from commercial bakers trying to figure out how to deal with a batch of flour.
The more I learn about flour, it seems the more I have yet to learn. Recently I've been reading a book on flour milling first published around 1905. I find it easier to read than the standard text on flour mills (Posner & Hibbs, costs about $168 on Amazon) and I suspect roller mills haven't changed a lot in the last 115 years.
I haven't bought much whole wheat flour since I got a flour mill, so I can't say much about the brands out there.
I normally keep KAF AP, KAF bread, Gold Medal unbleached and a store-brand bleached flour on hand, plus KAF pastry flour and some kind of semolina. Recently that's been BRM, because that's the only semolina available locally. I'm going to order a bigger bag of it soon, now that I've got a freezer I can store it in.
For cake flour I go with one of the bleached cake flours, like Swans Down, I have not been impressed with KAF's unbleached cake flour and I haven't tried BRM. I don't use a lot of cake flour, I probably haven't bought it in 2 years.
There was a post on the BBGA forum a while back that linked to a document about European flour grading standards on a country-by-country basis, with a lot more information than I've seen anywhere else.
Here's that link again.
Around here several of the stores have their first hour reserved for elderly and high-risk customers, usually 8AM to 9AM, and from what I hear that's the most crowded part of the day. At least one of the grocery chains has apparently gone back to being open 24 hours a day, but shopping at 2AM isn't on my bucket list, either.
THIS 'old folk' sure isn't getting up at 6AM to go grocery shopping!
I read where contact tracing may run afoul of HIPPA rules in the USA.
There was a story/opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal last night about how there are virus outbreaks all over the world, many in places that have been cited as models of how to do it right like Japan and Korea, because people won't follow social distancing rules, required or not.
Contrary to what the media would have you think, it's not just a USA problem, it's not a red state vs blue state problem, it's human nature on a world-wide scale.
Here's the link, I don't know if it is behind their paywall or not:
WSJ articleI've had my iPhone for 2 1/2 years and I'm still finding things I don't know how to do on it.
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