Fifteen minutes ... right.
I made a baked pancake for breakfast today (or Dutch Baby as I think they are called). I ultimately just used the recipe from our old Betty Crocker cookbook, but before I went digging through that, I had a quick look online to see if there were any variants worth trying.
I found one recipe that looked promising. I wanted this for breakfast, and the times on it looked promising.
Prep Time: 15 mins.
Cook Time: 20 mins.
In theory, we'd have food within 35 minutes from start to finish.
I glanced through the ingredients to ensure we had it all, then I looked at the first paragraph of instructions, and was suddenly glad that I had not bothered to print off the recipe.
It mentioned that one needed to peel, core and slice up an apple. Then it listed the ingredients (eggs, milk, butter, flour, salt, etc.) and instructed one to mix them all together in a bowl.
Then to let the batter sit.
For 30 minutes to overnight.
... overnight ...
This kind of shenanigans in recipes pisses me off. Where do they fit this "let it sit overnight" into the fifteen minutes they promised for prep time? The author knew that people would ignore their recipe if they said that it would take a full day to prepare the dish, so they fudged the "prep" time to only include active time, and omitted the part about the long wait time and buried it in the instructions further down.
Anyway, the Betty Crocker recipe was honest with the times, and it turned out good.
I found one recipe that looked promising. I wanted this for breakfast, and the times on it looked promising.
Prep Time: 15 mins.
Cook Time: 20 mins.
In theory, we'd have food within 35 minutes from start to finish.
I glanced through the ingredients to ensure we had it all, then I looked at the first paragraph of instructions, and was suddenly glad that I had not bothered to print off the recipe.
It mentioned that one needed to peel, core and slice up an apple. Then it listed the ingredients (eggs, milk, butter, flour, salt, etc.) and instructed one to mix them all together in a bowl.
Then to let the batter sit.
For 30 minutes to overnight.
... overnight ...
This kind of shenanigans in recipes pisses me off. Where do they fit this "let it sit overnight" into the fifteen minutes they promised for prep time? The author knew that people would ignore their recipe if they said that it would take a full day to prepare the dish, so they fudged the "prep" time to only include active time, and omitted the part about the long wait time and buried it in the instructions further down.
Anyway, the Betty Crocker recipe was honest with the times, and it turned out good.