cooking, fruit and size

[Pale Rider]

Well, I made these today, not a lemon went near them, 'cause I didn't have any
Cup cakes with chocolate mini eggs, madeira cake with chocolate cranberries, cycling themed background.
Turned out nice enough, wish I had a gas oven, this flat came with a convection one, not the same
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The Madeira looks particularly good.

My mother would say the cracks in the top indicate a perfect rise, not too much and not too little.

 

[Reynard]

[QUOTE 4685265, member: 259"]Which begs the question of why the useless teacher was letting them try to mash spuds in a food processor. [/QUOTE]

It's more that the other girls just didn't have a clue. I suffered the ignominy of sharing a kitchen with them for two years' worth of home economics lessons... Was one of the reasons I dropped the subject prior to choosing GCSE electives - just couldn't face three more years of kitchen klutzery.

 

[growingvegetables]

My mother would say the cracks in the top indicate a perfect rise, not too much and not too little.

My story too, and I'm sticking to it

 

[jefmcg]

It's more that the other girls just didn't have a clue.

Isn't the point of lessons to teach you how to do something? I had no idea how to pipette when I started chemistry, so the teacher taught me.

Mashing with a masher produces a completely different result. Using a processor is more equivalent to using a mouli, and would give the potatoes are nearly soup like consistency. If the students didn't know this, surely they should have been told. Repeatedly, if they weren't getting it.

(Never owned a potato masher. Learnt to mash with a fork, which is really all you need for a small family. If I was cooking for 20 I might invest in a masher)

 

[BrumJim]

Apparently 1 Imperial teaspoon = 5.91939047 millilitres
The worst case of spurious accuracy that I have ever come across. A teaspoon is a cooking measure, not a scientific one.

 

[Motobecane]

Here is something I made using lemons today. Charred lettuce, charred lemon, avocado and ruby grapefruit salad. The idea (obviously I thought) is to squirt the roast lemon over the salad - but my partner ate the whole lemon!

 

[growingvegetables]

You burned the lettuce!


Seriously - that looks good.

 

[Reynard]

Isn't the point of lessons to teach you how to do something? I had no idea how to pipette when I started chemistry, so the teacher taught me.

Mashing with a masher produces a completely different result. Using a processor is more equivalent to using a mouli, and would give the potatoes are nearly soup like consistency. If the students didn't know this, surely they should have been told. Repeatedly, if they weren't getting it.

(Never owned a potato masher. Learnt to mash with a fork, which is really all you need for a small family. If I was cooking for 20 I might invest in a masher)

They were told how to use a masher - we always had a lesson on theory and equipment before we cooked something.

I've always used one of these...

 

[Motobecane]

You burned the lettuce!

 

[vickster]

Isn't the point of lessons to teach you how to do something? I had no idea how to pipette when I started chemistry, so the teacher taught me.

Mashing with a masher produces a completely different result. Using a processor is more equivalent to using a mouli, and would give the potatoes are nearly soup like consistency. If the students didn't know this, surely they should have been told. Repeatedly, if they weren't getting it.

(Never owned a potato masher. Learnt to mash with a fork, which is really all you need for a small family. If I was cooking for 20 I might invest in a masher)

Forks scratch non stick pans, need a plastic masher

Mash is baby food too, like pancakes

 

[Motobecane]

They were told how to use a masher - we always had a lesson on theory and equipment before we cooked something.

I've always used one of these...

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Me too but I recently bought a new stick blender which happened to come with a mashing attachment. I was sceptical - but it works like a dream. Basicallly, it forces the potato up through holes - so it works rather like a potato ricer. The attachment looks like this:

 

[Motobecane]

Forks scratch non stick pans, need a plastic masher

Mash is baby food too, like pancakes

Why you using non-stick pan for spuds? Mash is a bit like baby food but not nearly as bad as that culinary abomination: the smoothie!

 

[vickster]

Why you using non-stick pan for spuds? Mash is a bit like baby food but not nearly as bad as that culinary abomination: the smoothie!

Cos I only have non stick pans. Why not? I rarely cook potatoes, when I do they are new in their skins or baked. Can't remember when I last peeled one

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I like that strawberry jug @Pat "5mph".

Thank you: it is a Royal Winton from when I used to follow the Antiques Roadshow then hit the charity shops

My mother would say the cracks in the top indicate a perfect rise, not too much and not too little.

Me thinks it's because the oven was too hot: as I said up thread, I'm not used to electric ovens, have not done much baking since I moved this flat, intending to remedy this!
I noticed that this electric oven is really good for yeast dough, the bread cooks lovely.

Forks scratch non stick pans, need a plastic masher

I don't really mash, but I would put the boiled toties in a plastic mixing bowl, mash them with a fork, then return them to the pan with a nob of butter and a dash of milk. Salt to taste, ground black pepper.

 

[Motobecane]

Cos I only have non stick pans. Why not? I rarely cook potatoes, when I do they are new in their skins or baked. Can't remember when I last peeled one

Fair enough! I like skins on potato too.