Butter vs Irish butter
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Comments (13)When we bought the seeds, I hadn't realized that "Cool Breeze" is considered a burpless, seedless variety. I selected it because it was described as having fruits that set early, a French cornichon type (gherkin) that was pickling size, also great in salads, and best when picked 4-5" long. Since I knew I was going to want to make Linda's recipe again, I thought Linda Lou's recipe or a variation of it might do well with this cuke if I wanted to try to make gherkins or maybe small whole sweet pickles. (I have since come across the NCHFP recipes, which I may use to make 1-2" and/or 3-4" gherkins by picking earlier.) It wasn't until I was posting yesterday that I went back to read the catalog description and learned of its burpless & seedless nature...(apparently they mean when you pick them smaller than 4-5"). I became concerned, because I remember having read one of your postings, Ken, where you mentioned that burpless don't make good pickles. I just hope this batch is an exception. They seemed crunchy enough before processing. No hollow centers, no shrivelling either. Good thing I put a bit of Pickle Crisp into each jar before sealing! These burpless might otherwise get soft sooner than the other cuke varieties and our bottles don't tend to get consumed all that fast. What recipe do you use if you want to make gherkins? I thought it interesting that the NCHFP recipes calls for pricking the cukes with a fork during one of the brining soaks, I figure to let the flavor/vinegar/sugar in. I never noticed any holes in the store-bought gherkins! I'll have to make note of the varieties you're growing. Didn't know there's one called 'Heinz'. How many plants are you growing to be able pick 30 everyday? I thought 30 from my 4 little plants was pretty good and there's still little ones on the nodes I already picked from. Weirdly plentiful, but great if you want to make gherkins! I wish my Kirby's were more plentiful....See More"European style" butter vs. regular (to USA) butter
Comments (17)One thing I immediately noticed about Kerrygold is that it was much saltier than the US butter I usually buy. My spouse likes salt so that was great, in his opinion! Interestingly enough, he doesn't care for European butter in things like sauces (it's a big deal here for upscale restaurants to drown some dishes in melted butter sauce instead of making a real beurre blanc). Being Asian, he doesn't like cultured dairy products like sour cream or creme fraiche - it took decades before he would tolerate more than a thin schmear of cream cheese on a bagel with his lox, LOL. So the European butters taste a little "off" to his tastebuds....See MoreWhen to use butter vs. margarine in baking
Comments (28)Caramel Cheetos® - Linda C 2 cups light brown sugar 1 cup margarine - yes, for this one you must use margarine 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 - 21 oz. pkg. Cheetos® - crunchy kind Mix sugar, margarine and corn syrup in pan. Bring to a boil. Boil 5 minutes no longer, stirring often. Remove from heat and add soda. Stir until light in color and foamy. Spray a roasting pan (deep 10 x 14) with Pam. Put Cheetos® in pan. Pour the mixture over Cheetos® and stir, coating each piece. Place in oven at 250 degrees. Bake for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes. Immediately, pour onto wax paper, or cookie sheets, sprayed with Pam. (This is the hard part.) VERY QUICKLY spread out as thin as possible. If not quick and spread out as thin as possible, you will get a big hard glob. After about 5 minutes, pull/break these apart even more and loosen them from the wax paper. If you don't, you'll have wax paper stuck to them when you go to eat them. You will regret it if you don't double the batch as guests are going to demand MORE! You can bake batches together and add an extra 20 minutes to bake time. I do them separately because of having to work so quickly to keep them apart at the end. The one batch can almost get too hard while working with the other batch....See MorePaint: can anyone tell me about LA Cowslip vs RH Butter?
Comments (13)Hee! I always read "cow slip" (not that the image is any better). Looks like I can't post links directly in this forum (as in kitchens). Here is another vintage yellow kitchen from rejuvenation: http://www.rejuvenation.com/catalog/settings/settingdisplay.html?setting_id=112&category=kitchen And again, the image of cow's lip from Lowe's that I just love: http://valsparatlowes.com/project-ideas/design-gallery/la_co_foy1.html And here are 2 photos of Butter on opposite walls of my breakfast room (the darker sample card is of RH Saffron for the trim). Same color, same room, opposite walls. What a difference! Now, I DO like both of these incarnations of Butter. And they look to me like the Rejuvenation and Lowe's photos linked above. But darn that butter! It also gets lemony in my kitchen--both in bright sunlight, and if I use cf bulbs. (I don't have a photo of the butter-turned-lemon for you.) I need a never-lemony butter. Maybe I just need to board up all the windows in my home, and control the yellow with artificial, unchanging lighting? ;-)...See Morekframe19
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