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My wife says I should have written a section on what happens when I take her, her best friend, our daughter-in-law and another couple out to dinner.
My wife is allergic to garlic
Her best friend is allergic to olives and olive oil (and carries an epi pen)
Our daugher-in-law has a wheat allergy
The other couple have a wheat allergy, and are also dairy free.That's enough to drive any waiter crazy!
The last time I had them all over for dinner, I had to make several items multiple ways, including two kinds of Hollandaise sauce, two kinds of pasta (one gluten-free), two kinds of bread (one gluten-free), etc. My wife made 3 different desserts.
I found the microwave sponge candy recipe online, but the site it was on vanished years ago.
I used to have a microwave sponge candy recipe, too. (called seafoam at some candy stores) one that I had worked on the timings a lot, but the sheet of paper I had written it on was inside a cookbook that vanished several years ago, and I haven't been able to reproduce the recipe or get the timing down right, maybe both.
I've got several pages of alternate recipes to try (done on the range rather than in a microwave oven), but making sponge candy hasn't been high on my list of things to do the last few years.
I'm hoping to take a course on chocolate-making later this year, being better trained on how to temper chocolate and enrobe candies might revive this quest.
There's a vendor at the local farmers markets who has a Forno Bravo wood-burning oven that he hauls around to farmers markets and other functions. He says it takes several hours to get up to temp and 2-3 days to cool completely down.
Please keep us posted on your progress. The San Francisco Baking Institute has run a few short courses on baking breads and pizzas in a wood burning oven. I think King Arthur Flour has run similar courses in Vermont.
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What kind of oven did you get?
What's going on? Running a website has gotten expensive, and costs are accelerating.
Sometimes the best way to participate is to ask a question that stimulates an interesting discussion.
It’s probably a good thing we weren’t planning on doing a big tomato garden this year, we’ve had about 6 inches of rain in the last two weeks and more is forecast for this weekend, so the garden area is way too wet to plant in. We'll be lucky to have it dried out by Memorial Day.
Also, we had about 45 minutes of hail the other day, many of the plants my wife was getting ready to put in her flower beds look like they were run through a shredder, and any tomatoes in the garden would have suffered, too.
We consider mulberry little more than a noxious weed!
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I have all my recipes from the King Arthur Baking Circle posted here now.
Here's the key section:
Meanwhile, restrictions on cane-sugar imports into the EU will remain. The combination could squeeze importers like Tate & Lyle Sugars, whose London refinery has been turning cane sugar into sweetener for 138 years.
“The clock’s ticking for us,” said Gerald Mason, a vice president of Tate & Lyle as he watched a crane unload a 35,000-ton shipment of sugar. “We are not going to be competitive after 2017 unless the regulation is changed.”
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I wasn't sure if that link would work, good to know what works and what doesn't. I was half-way expecting that WSJ story to morph into the Brexit issue when they brought up Tate & Lyle.
Taxing to discourage consumption has a mixed track record. Some folks think it worked well for smoking, but some states have become dependent on those taxes and are seeing declines in tobacco taxes affecting their state budgets.
The soda tax hasn't appeared to work as well where it's been used, and it's unlikely that they'll be able to raise the taxes to the point where demand becomes truly elastic--restaurants make huge profits on soft drinks, too.
The shopping center nearest us just got a 1% increase on sales tax (on everything except food, I think) so they can help pay for Scheels to build a huge new store, complete with a Ferris Wheel inside and put up a parking garage where the current Scheels (not small) is. :sigh:
Best line I read all weekend: How can you tell macroeconomists have a sense of humor? They use decimal points.
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Is your 12 x 4 pan measured on the top or the bottom?
Several people make a metal 12 x 4 1/2 pan:
Wilton:
Wilton Recipe-Right-Piece-LongHere's one made with carbon steel:
Carbon Steel Long Loaf PanAnd a NorPro one:
NorPro Loaf PanKing Arthur still has the stoneware 12x4 tea loaf pan:
Tea Loaf PanFantes has a loaf pan designed for angel food cakes, 16 x 4:
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If someone's still looking for four-strap pans, several of the restaurant supply sites have them (webstaurant.com, etc)
When I was growing up, we had a 'clubhouse' in a building that was full of old bakery equipment. There were lots of 3-strap, 4-strap, even 8 strap (2x4) bread pans, racks, sheet pans, etc. I've wondered if they're still there. and what shape they're in. (The grocery store that the bakery outbuilding was behind closed many years ago, but nobody ever cleaned it out to open something else in that space.)
May 14, 2016 at 11:25 pm in reply to: What Interesting Food did You Cook the Week of May 8, 2016? #136Not a new recipe, but I made chicken mirepoix for supper tonight, and I think I hit on a good balance of herbs, some basil and some celery seed.
I use skinned bone-in breasts, because my wife won't eat chicken skin, so I've been experimenting with ways to keep the surface of the breasts from getting too dry. Tonight I tried covering the breasts with cabbage leaves (or as my wife put it--edible cellophane.) I'm not sure if they added much flavor, and they dried out too much to be eaten, but they did seem to keep the breasts themselves from drying out. I'll have to try that again.
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