The Cereal Saga, Part 2
My teeth still hurt more than 3 hours after eating a bowl. When I'd surreptitiously tasted the kishk before drying it, it reminded me of a tangier, softer version of Grape-Nuts. I assumed drying it would make it crunchier, but in a pleasant, more Grape-Nut like way. The prospect excited me, and I wrote a journal entry about it as the kishk dried. I had conquered cold breakfast cereal!
Alas, drying kishk does not render a more pleasant cereal. It's hard. Dang hard. I went online to find out what others were saying. Perhaps I'd misunderstood the recipe. Perhaps there was some secret to doing it right that I hadn't noticed.
Nope. Everybody agrees. Don't dry the kishk.
It must be an editing mistake in the cookbook, as the dried kishk is basically inedible as is. I could see drying the kishk to store it for future use in some awesome Lebanese dish like kishk soup. BUT, dried kishk does not make a good cereal.
Last night, Steve poured milk over a bowl of the cereal and left it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, the kishk had soaked it all up. He poured more milk over it and began to eat.
"Try this," he said as he motioned to the bowl. I hesitated, as I was busy. "No. You want to try this."
I tried it. Not too bad. Quite good, in fact. It was the Grape-Nut like tangy sweet granola I'd envisioned yesterday.
So, for this first batch, we will have to re-soak the cereal overnight before eating it.
I won't dry the next batch.
Alas, drying kishk does not render a more pleasant cereal. It's hard. Dang hard. I went online to find out what others were saying. Perhaps I'd misunderstood the recipe. Perhaps there was some secret to doing it right that I hadn't noticed.
Nope. Everybody agrees. Don't dry the kishk.
It must be an editing mistake in the cookbook, as the dried kishk is basically inedible as is. I could see drying the kishk to store it for future use in some awesome Lebanese dish like kishk soup. BUT, dried kishk does not make a good cereal.
Last night, Steve poured milk over a bowl of the cereal and left it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, the kishk had soaked it all up. He poured more milk over it and began to eat.
"Try this," he said as he motioned to the bowl. I hesitated, as I was busy. "No. You want to try this."
I tried it. Not too bad. Quite good, in fact. It was the Grape-Nut like tangy sweet granola I'd envisioned yesterday.
So, for this first batch, we will have to re-soak the cereal overnight before eating it.
I won't dry the next batch.