What Are You Baking This Week?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
4 years ago
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Comments (47)When I was a teenager, I made a "Spanische Windtorte." The picture of it was so pretty, and it sounded wonderful. It is an Austrian dessert composed of meringue filled with cream. You pipe meringue in a close spiral and bake it for the bottom, easy enough. Then you have to pipe and bake many rings, which you layer up from the bottom and glue with unbaked meringue to form a round box. Then you do another close spiral for a lid. The inside is filled with whipped cream flavored with cognac and fresh strawberries. After carefully placing the "lid" on top, the outside is decorated with piped whipped cream and candied violets. It wasn't that it was difficult, exactly, it's just that it was seriously time consuming, handling the brittle meringue rings was troublesome, and decorating had to be very quick so that one could serve the dessert before the inside cream began to melt. I had to make my own candied violets as well, which didn't help. It was very pretty, but when it came to eating it you might do just as well with a bowl of strawberries & whipped cream by crumbling a few meringue cookies on top. All that work and so little gustatory umph....See MoreI'm baking today, what are you doing?
Comments (24)Yesterday....I finished the basement demo in the rental. I tore out the rest of the firing strips and loaded them in the truck with a few ceilng tiles and hauled them to a dumpster....with the dumpster owners permission. Then shopped for Bali mini blind mounting brackets, they came with the wrong ones. Grrrrr...... then DH used the basement bathroom....and it almost over flowed....got online and researched Roto Rooter .... For lunch we went to a "Shop and Save" grocery store.....all Spanish patrons and "things" for sale....picked up lunch.... For dinner, made baked potato wedges to go with the fish sticks. Threw Temtation Tumblers for the cat to entertain the bored kitty that was left at home all alone aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall day......lol Then took a loooooooooooooong bath.... The day before I was shopping @ The Restore....and a board fell on my forehead....left a knot the size of an egg & dark circles under my eyes....now it's black & blue...but almost gone....YAY! Haven't gotton hurt working, but I got nailed shopping....lol...See MoreWhat Are You Cooking or Baking?
Comments (37)Jasdip, I had to look up butter tarts! Apparently a Canadian term, perhaps? Looks yummy, that's for sure. Speaking if yummy, weren't you the one who complained about the price of cauliflower a few weeks ago? We all did, as I recall. Anyway, the price is way down now at my stores, with a big head costing about $1.20 each. And the orange variety is around $2.50. I bought a head of the orange to steam tonight.....I'm curious to see if it tastes as different as reported....See MoreWhat are You Cooking or Baking This Month
Comments (71)Mine did not come with a lid, there is one available but I'm not sure I need it. I've had to try several recipes and make some substitutions due to the size of the loaf. Basically it's 1.5 Cups of water, about 2 cups of starter, 1.5 tsp of sugar or honey, 1.5 tsp. salt and 1 Tbs of melted/salted butter. Mix together and add 5.5 -6.0 Cups of flour (I'm using King Arthur unbleached/all purpose right now). Let it mix/knead for 8 minutes. I take it out of the mixer onto a lightly floured counter and let it rest for a few minutes, makes it easier to work with. Then I simply shape into a rectangle wide as my pans length, roll it up and let it rise. My rise time has varied depending on the weather. Once it's slightly above the pans edge I slather it with melted butter, bake it at 400 for about 40 - 55 minutes. My oven is not the greatest and my cook time varies. I do turn the loaf several times as well. When done I slather it with butter. Let it completely cool before slicing. I'm making another one right now that I did add some rosemary essential oil to. Not even a drop of it though, I use a toothpick and dip it into the oil and use only whats on the end....See Moremama goose_gw zn6OH
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