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How do I prevent Swedish meatballs from falling apart? I don't really have a fixed recipe. I use minced meat, bread crumbs, grated onion, eggs, cream and spices. I also did allow the bread crumbs t...
There are differences in flavor between oils. That is very much personal preference - liking a strong flavor for itself, or liking a weak flavor so that the flavor of the food being cooked is more ...
Take it as a lesson for next time! Fundamentally, if your cake isn't done yet, there's not much you can do except bake it for longer - there are things you can do before you cook it, but once it's ...
I've recently baked a sheet cake with fresh apples, vanilla pudding and crumbles. The moment I took the tray out of my oven I saw that the cake wasn't really baked. The fluids within the pudding an...
Today I run out of oil that I use for my pan to roast meat, vegetables and other stuff. I found myself in my local supermarket and was bewildered by the sheer variety of oils. However, in my superm...
While I am not familiar with tempeh, I would think that perhaps cutting it into lozengy shapes, at an angle, so the individual pieces are cut evenly with thin edges, might assist.
I add a tablespoon of vital wheat gluten per cup of AP flour, when I need to boost the protein content. Most of the time, however, AP is perfectly sufficient. AP is often about 12% gluten, bread fl...
The major (I say major - that's a relative term) difference between bread flour and all-purpose flour is the gluten and protein content; bread flour has more of both. In practical terms, this means...
Don't use the same combined "quantity" == (in my mind) volume. This is definitely a case where density matters. Either use a conversion based on typical difference in density or, even better, measu...
I am a beginner when it comes to bread, and for expedience I make almost all of my bread using a bread machine. I've always used bread flour, followed the proportions specified in the instructions...
I recently made a peach cobbler following a recipe that called for equal parts of white sugar and brown sugar in both the fruit mix and the topping. This got me wondering about the functions of th...
Two techniques from baking cakes might help with your baked pancakes: After you pour the batter into the pan, let it sit for five minutes before putting in the oven. This helps the batter to set...
I like to bake a pancake in the oven, instead of in a frying pan atop the stove. The basic recipe is the same (flour, milk, eggs, butter, salt; mix, pour into a roasting pan, bake in the oven at me...
I cooked with tempeh for the first time recently. The tempeh came in an 8oz "brick", about half to three-quarters of an inch thick. The recipe I was following suggested boiling it for 10 minutes ...
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