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  • in reply to: For your Halloween supper: Feetloaf #18796
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      That's great. It should be served with plenty of ketchup.

      in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 24, 2019 #18780
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        I knew this!

        in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 13, 2019? #18776
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          On Friday I made whole wheat pumpkin bread starting form the KAF Whole Grain pumpkin yeast bread. I made two large loaves as I was planning to bring these to share with friends on Saturday and Sunday.
          I have modified the recipe to use four cups of flour, 1 cup of pumpkin, 1 egg and 1/4 cup of water per loaf so these are quite big loaves. One loaf was a cinnamon and allspice swirl baked in larger loaf pan. The other was done as a boule with > 1 cup of diced cheddar. The weather was nicely cool so I let them rise overnight and baked them on Saturday morning in the oven. I baked the loaf pan in an oval Dutch oven, and the boule was baked in the ceramic cloche. Both loaves turned out wonderfully.
          I also made sugarless pumpkin cream cheese to serve with the swirl loaf. It was very well received.

          in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 21, 2019 #18742
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            I got it!

            in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 20, 2019 #18728
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              I knew this! I didn't know it had a strict proportion of vegetables.

              in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 13, 2019? #18704
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                The clotted cream was wonderful! I put a little leftover cream in hot chocolate the next day. I think she baked 2 pints of heavy cream in a baking dish for 12 hours at low temperature, perhaps 200 or 25 degrees. She said that at the end the cream was golden cover and had sperated. She skimmed the solids off and refrigerated it as clotted cream and kept the liquid for cooking.

                in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 13, 2019? #18702
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                  By the next morning the braids had raisen but weren't too puffy. The fake braids baked up to a beautiful golden brown. The one with more filling leaked at one side edge and was a little misshapened, the other one is beautifully symmetrical. I wrapped them up carefully and put them into the refrigerator. Will take to a party tonight.

                  in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of October 13, 2019? #18676
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                    Have fun at the NY Sheep and wool chocomouse. Yesterday I had baked chicken thigh with leftover Afghan pumpkin with yogurt sauce. The pumpkin was much better warmed up, then it had been the first time around, probably the tomato sauce improved after being refrigerated.

                    I am going to do a colonscopy next week. I have two days without whole grains, or raw vegetables or raw fruit in preparation as well as a day of essentially fasting. Its been so long since I first started eating whole wheat flour and brown rice that this is going to be disconcerting. I do cook with white flour, and eat white rice but thats an occasional treat and mainly when eating out.

                    in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 16, 2019 #18672
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                      Got it. I don't remember trying Amaranth. Has anyone tried grain sorghum?

                      in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 15, 2019 #18671
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                        Got it. I love Canadian bacon.

                        in reply to: Daily Quiz for October 14, 2019 #18670
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                          I didn't get this either

                          in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 13, 2019? #18669
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                            On Monday I did English Scones from the Cook's Illustrated recipe. A friend wanted to try the English custom of scones and clotted cream. She had found a recipe for making clotted cream by baking cream in the oven for hours, and I had agreed to make scones to accompany them. Monday Columbus day was a perfectly cool day just right for cooking and a Federal Holiday. So she made the cream and I did more or less this recipe
                            https://www.tasteasyougo.com/2015/05/british-style-currant-scones-recipe.html

                            I found this was too soft with white flour and I made drop scones instead of cut scones. These were baked at 350 degrees for 20 minutes instead of 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Between one thing and another these were rather flat. But they were very tasty and the clotted cream was great.

                            Today I am making this recipe,.
                            https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/cheese-filled-sweet-braid-recipe

                            Comparing this recipe with the fake braid in the 200th Anniversary Cookbook, this recipe has half the amount of dough and the same amount of filling. I have one braid with notably less filling than the other, I hope the braid with two much filling turns out. The dough was very soft, I should have added more flour. I ended up rolling it out with extra flour between two sheets of wax paper. I am going to let it rise overnight and bake tomorrow morning. I hope it turns out well.

                            in reply to: What are You Baking the Week of October 6, 2019? #18608
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                              the oatmeal apricot bars are very good. A little too sweet, next time I'll change 2/3 cup brown sugar to 1/2 cup brown sugar. Would it be too crunchy with regular oatmeal?

                              in reply to: Primal cuts of beef #18602
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                                Do you eat enough beef to make it worthwhile? I find it handy to cut up my own chicken but beef is expensive enough I only buy one cut at a time. I think the most I bought was a whole eye of round roast. I've bought chuck roasts on sale and put them in the freezer too but thats already cut up.

                                in reply to: No quiz for Friday and probably not for next day or two #18601
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                                  Glad that you are back home. Have a speedy recovery.

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