Bake, Laura! Bake like the wind!
Dec. 23rd, 2008 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiThis morning my mother-in-law made blueberry muffins from a box, and asked us how they were. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dealio and I agreed that they were fine for box muffins, pretty good. She mentioned that she was going to make them for Christmas morning, when the clan converges upon the house.
"Laura could make some from scratch," Scott said.
Um. Yes ... I could, conceivably, make blueberry muffins from scratch. I allowed as such, but added what a pain they are to make, in my opinion (sugarcoatedlie could probably make them in her sleep). "I could make lemon ginger muffins, if I had the recipe."
Well, after a quick search and discovery of the entire cookbook on Google Books, I am now making lemon ginger muffins, chocolate chip muffins, and homemade bread. Of my own volition. All day tomorrow. Scott promised to help and be my kitchen slave.
This is, I feel, the first true test of my baking skillz.
I'm only really nervous about scalding the milk for the bread. My grandmother can scald milk by eye and nose, but I tend to get all antsy, so I like to use the kitchen thermometer and wait until it's 180 degrees. I'm more Alton Brown, I guess.
Of course, the family has been regaled for years with stories of my cooking disasters--the CoCo Puff marshmallow birthday lump, the post-hurricane gingerbread house (both of which were edible, if slightly disturbing and unattractive)--so I have to wonder if anyone will be brave enough to try my stuff. I could probably goadnocmaar into it by impugning his manhood ...
dealio and I agreed that they were fine for box muffins, pretty good. She mentioned that she was going to make them for Christmas morning, when the clan converges upon the house."Laura could make some from scratch," Scott said.
Um. Yes ... I could, conceivably, make blueberry muffins from scratch. I allowed as such, but added what a pain they are to make, in my opinion (
sugarcoatedlie could probably make them in her sleep). "I could make lemon ginger muffins, if I had the recipe."Well, after a quick search and discovery of the entire cookbook on Google Books, I am now making lemon ginger muffins, chocolate chip muffins, and homemade bread. Of my own volition. All day tomorrow. Scott promised to help and be my kitchen slave.
This is, I feel, the first true test of my baking skillz.
I'm only really nervous about scalding the milk for the bread. My grandmother can scald milk by eye and nose, but I tend to get all antsy, so I like to use the kitchen thermometer and wait until it's 180 degrees. I'm more Alton Brown, I guess.
Of course, the family has been regaled for years with stories of my cooking disasters--the CoCo Puff marshmallow birthday lump, the post-hurricane gingerbread house (both of which were edible, if slightly disturbing and unattractive)--so I have to wonder if anyone will be brave enough to try my stuff. I could probably goad
nocmaar into it by impugning his manhood ...
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Date: 2008-12-24 05:45 am (UTC)Muffins are pretty easy as baking goes though... of course I get a lot of practice with all that sleep baking. At least she didn't ask you to make a bunch of cinnamon rolls, what with all their yeast and rising.
Also, depending on what kind of bread you want to make, I have a recipe I use that has no milk in it, if that'd help? It's something that I sort of made up based on two recipes, so it's a multigrain honey wheat bread, which might not be what you're looking for, but it's pretty tasty for PB&Js. :) Just let me know if you want it and I'll type it up.
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Date: 2008-12-24 07:26 pm (UTC)