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#Post#: 27559--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: offtopicalways
Date: October 10, 2021, 12:43 pm
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My best success from failure was shen a flourless chocolate
cake, which I'd made many times and everyone always loved,
failed miserably when, of course, my mother was visiting. The
cake sits in a water bath, and I'm guessing I didn't have the
foil on the pan tight enough.
I put the failed cake through the food processor, not really
knowing what I was going for, and ended up with a really
delicious, rich chocolate mousse.
#Post#: 27560--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: animaniactoo
Date: October 10, 2021, 12:45 pm
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--- Quote from: CatDancing link ---
>
> [quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=379.msg27545#msg27545
date=1633886569]
> [quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=379.msg27541#msg27541
date=1633886375]
> I guess food’s a serious business with me. I can’t think of
anything really funny.
>
--- End Quote ---
It doesn't have to be funny, it can just be memorable! The best
success you've ever had with something, conquering a recipe that
gave you fits, etc. as long as it's memorable.
[/quote]
Years ago, I was working on a cookbook with some friends of
mine, and we thought it would be fun to put in some old recipes.
OLD recipes. I have a number of old cookbooks, and so I
fetched them out, dusted them off, and started in on testing
some of the recipes.
There were the usual issues with bigger eggs and whatnot, but
beyond that I discovered that there were a number of recipes
that could best be described as "healthful and filling." Tasty?
No. They'd be great for a diet cookbook because there would be
NO temptation to get seconds. They weren't bad, mind you --
they just weren't good.
And the WWII recipes. Oh my God! There is a Treet and Lima
Bean casserole that is engraved into my memory, and not in a
good way. I didn't try that one -- I had developed a modicum of
self-protection by that time -- and even now I wonder if anyone
ever did fix that thing. Gaaaah.
[/quote]
Oh!!! This reminds me of the first time I tried to make my
grandmother's noodle kugel.
Her recipe said "one bag of extra wide egg noodles". The problem
is that over time, in order to keep costs "the same", the bag of
egg noodles had shrunk from "16 oz" to "12 oz". and well... that
was a soupy soupy mess.
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Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: guest169
Date: October 10, 2021, 12:45 pm
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Catdancing
That reminds me of a recipe card that my grandmother wrote. One
of the ingredients was a 5 cent bag of marshmallows. I can’t
even think of anything you can buy for a nickel nowadays.
#Post#: 27562--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: pamelaaos
Date: October 10, 2021, 12:47 pm
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--- Quote from: BethinDC2AZ link ---
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> [quote author=offtopicalways link=topic=379.msg27530#msg27530
date=1633886018]
> Mine is cringeworthy. I made it rain in the kitchen.
>
> Somehow, I mis-remmebered something and thought it was OK to
put Pyrex directly on the flame. I don't remmeber what I was
trying to cook (it was over 30 years ago), but I left a bowl of
water on the stovetop and left the room.
>
> There was an explosion, and when we went in to check, there
was a cloud near the ceiling. It started to rain.
>
> We lived there about 4 years, and were still finding shards of
Pyrex when we moved out.
>
> If anyone has a kitchen mishap, "At least it's not raining."
>
--- End Quote ---
I've done something similar. I left a glass casserole dish on a
hot burner and it shattered like nothing I've ever seen.
[/quote]
I learned the hard way years ago not to put a hot Pyrex dish in
a sink and run water into it. Glass everywhere!
#Post#: 27564--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: MidwestmikkiJ
Date: October 10, 2021, 12:51 pm
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--- Quote from: CatDancing link ---
>
> [quote author=animaniactoo link=topic=379.msg27545#msg27545
date=1633886569]
> [quote author=MidwestmikkiJ link=topic=379.msg27541#msg27541
date=1633886375]
> I guess food’s a serious business with me. I can’t think of
anything really funny.
>
--- End Quote ---
It doesn't have to be funny, it can just be memorable! The best
success you've ever had with something, conquering a recipe that
gave you fits, etc. as long as it's memorable.
[/quote]
Years ago, I was working on a cookbook with some friends of
mine, and we thought it would be fun to put in some old recipes.
OLD recipes. I have a number of old cookbooks, and so I
fetched them out, dusted them off, and started in on testing
some of the recipes.
There were the usual issues with bigger eggs and whatnot, but
beyond that I discovered that there were a number of recipes
that could best be described as "healthful and filling." Tasty?
No. They'd be great for a diet cookbook because there would be
NO temptation to get seconds. They weren't bad, mind you --
they just weren't good.
And the WWII recipes. Oh my God! There is a Treet and Lima
Bean casserole that is engraved into my memory, and not in a
good way. I didn't try that one -- I had developed a modicum of
self-protection by that time -- and even now I wonder if anyone
ever did fix that thing. Gaaaah.
[/quote]
My Norwegian Grandma’s recipe for Sandbkelse, a cookie I love,
list the ingredients but no amounts.
#Post#: 27565--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: CatDancing
Date: October 10, 2021, 12:53 pm
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--- Quote from: Catweasel link ---
>
> Catdancing
>
> That reminds me of a recipe card that my grandmother wrote.
One of the ingredients was a 5 cent bag of marshmallows. I
can’t even think of anything you can buy for a nickel nowadays.
>
--- End Quote ---
Yeah, translating that one could be tricky! If you really want
to make that recipe, you might dig around in some newspaper
archives from the years when your grandmother would have written
the recipe, and see if you can find some grocery ads. I did all
kinds of research to try to get translations from "then" to
"now," and it didn't always work out. My motto was, "What am I
going to end up with THIS time?" and while it wasn't always a
keeper, it was always fun to try.
#Post#: 27566--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: HeddyL2627
Date: October 10, 2021, 12:53 pm
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We’d just adopted a hellion of a kitten — think kitten feces and
litter smeared floor to ceiling on the bathroom walls — so
rather than storing spouse’s birthday cake in the tuperware cake
thingy on the counter, I stuck it in the oven. No big deal,
right?
The next evening, the doorbell rang while I was starting dinner,
and I raced to get the door before the person woke spouse who
was working nights then. Ended up talking to the neighbor for
15-20 minutes ... until black smoke started pouring out of the
kitchen and the fire alarm went off. Woops. Twice baked birthday
cake? :D ;D
Also woke spouse a bit early ...
#Post#: 27569--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: AbidingDudev4.1
Date: October 10, 2021, 1:00 pm
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$500 Brownies
My dad was a cook in his mandatory army stint. A skill set that
served him well with the six of us.
Anyway, I was like ten or so, and he tried to make brownies from
a box for the first (and last) time.
I have no idea what he did wrong, I have tried a few times but
have never been able to recreate it.
They came out of the oven with a consistency of heath bars, only
ten times harder on the mohs scale.
All us kids weren't eating them, so he grabbed one and bit into
it to prove a point.
The next day he had two teeth pulled and we had $500 brownies.
#Post#: 27571--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: animaniactoo
Date: October 10, 2021, 1:04 pm
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--- Quote from: AbidingDudev4.1 link ---
>
> $500 Brownies
>
> My dad was a cook in his mandatory army stint. A skill set
that served him well with the six of us.
>
> Anyway, I was like ten or so, and he tried to make brownies
from a box for the first (and last) time.
>
> I have no idea what he did wrong, I have tried a few times but
have never been able to recreate it.
>
> They came out of the oven with a consistency of heath bars,
only ten times harder on the mohs scale.
>
> All us kids weren't eating them, so he grabbed one and bit
into it to prove a point.
>
> The next day he had two teeth pulled and we had $500 brownies.
>
--- End Quote ---
I would lay down cash on he eyeballed some of the wet
ingredients and/or used the wrong size eggs (smaller than
needed).
#Post#: 27575--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cooking/Food Hoot
DIR By: HeddyL2627
Date: October 10, 2021, 1:14 pm
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Don’t read any further if you’re scared by pressure cookers ...
or maybe read it, because nothing bad actually happened because
the safety features worked?
Mom was out of town at a conference, and dad decided he wanted
chili and saltines for lunch. He was out of Hormel 🤢 and
decided to try making his own. So he pulls out mom’s trusty old
stovetop pressure cooker, adds a bunch of dried beans, spices,
and water, closes the lid, and sticks it on the stove on high.
I walked into the kitchen from the barn a while later to this
hellacious racket on the stove, and dad yelling “stay back!” I
didn’t. I just walked right up to the PC, turned the stove off,
then ran it under cold water. #difusethatbomb
The lid was all ballooned up, but the pressure relief valve had
done its thing, and nothing exploded.
Anyone who’s used a PC will know 1) check the seals and vavles
valves first, 2) DO NOT OVERFILL. Guess which of those he
violated? ::)
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