Baking: fixed a mistake

2017-11-04T21:41:51Z

I was making a couple of batches of apple cakelings, using Jo Walton's recipe: two batches because I had almost half an apple left after the first, and didn't want to waste it. I also wanted to try using lemon extract, which I added to the sugar at the beginning.

I was about three steps in when I realized I'd used the normal amount of butter/margarine, but 1/3 more sugar, because I had somehow grabbed a 1/3 cup measure instead of the 1/4. So I used 1 1/2 or 1 2/3 eggs instead of one (no measuring here, just not-exactly-separating the second egg and putting about 2/3 of the egg white and I think about that much yolk into the bowl with the other ingredients. I increased the flour by an unmeasured amount, by using a heaping quarter cup instead of the usual measured amount. That was going to be 1/3 cup as well, but the cat knocked the 1/3 cup measure on the floor.

Overall, these worked well. adrian_turtle, you might like these, they're not as greasy as they sometimes come out. I will probably try this again, with a bit more lemon, and possibly measured amounts of other things.

Here's Jo's cakeling recipe, for reference. I had the oven at 200C/400F, and baked for a full twenty minutes.

Next time, try: 4.5 or 5 tablespoons of margarine (instead of 4); 1/3 cup sugar; a measured 1/3 cup of flour, and 3/8 tsp baking powder (I'm starting with what King Arthur calls all-purpose flour, which doesn't contain baking powder), and 1/2 teaspoon of lemon extract. Having looked at Jo's currently posted version of the recipe, I might try actual lemon juice and zest some time, instead of apple bits+lemon extract. (For that she advises increasing only the amount of flour.)

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Fiddling with cakeling recipe

2014-01-12T19:05:02Z

We recently got a kitchen scale, after years of thinking it might be useful to have one. (Not only have we been doing a certain amount of "hey, new kitchen!" shopping, we have more counter space than in the old apartment.)

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Baking: fixed a mistake

Fiddling with cakeling recipe