Those Evil "Kitchen Experts" and "It Goes Without Saying"
I noticed an occasional cooking mishap post here, so I decided to share my recipe mishap.
I decided to make a wonderful-looking cake from one of those "post your recipes" sites today.
So I started with sponge. I thought it would be classic (divide eggs, mix sugar, mix flour and extra flavouring, add beaten eggwhites), but recipe said "beat eggs with sugar, add flour and melted chocolate, stir well." Sounds like step-by-step thing, right? No egg whites anywhere. You can guess what happened.
This isn't the first time something like this happened - I had many problems with recipes copied from my grandmother's and mother's cookbooks. No, ladies, I don't know you must melt sugar in water for that, how could I know? I wasn't born in an apron. I never heard of any absolute laws that say egg whites must be separated and beaten and added later. There are cakes where it isn't a case. How am I supposed to guess?
But it's a recipe on site, and it actually had (seemingly) explicit step-by-step instruction, and praise, and no complaint in the comments (though they complained about low rating...could be someone else had issues), so I went with it...I can get cookbooks mother and grandmother made for their own convenience. But people, if you post online, there will be beginners reading. And ingerdients aren't necessarily cheap. To say nothing of waste of time or if it was supposed to be prepared for some occasion. Can you not remember the time when you were starting? Or is this some deliberate elitist conspiracy?
Anyone else ran into "it goes without saying" recipe problems? Any bad recipe problems? Or just any recent kitchen mishap you need to vent about?
I decided to make a wonderful-looking cake from one of those "post your recipes" sites today.
So I started with sponge. I thought it would be classic (divide eggs, mix sugar, mix flour and extra flavouring, add beaten eggwhites), but recipe said "beat eggs with sugar, add flour and melted chocolate, stir well." Sounds like step-by-step thing, right? No egg whites anywhere. You can guess what happened.
This isn't the first time something like this happened - I had many problems with recipes copied from my grandmother's and mother's cookbooks. No, ladies, I don't know you must melt sugar in water for that, how could I know? I wasn't born in an apron. I never heard of any absolute laws that say egg whites must be separated and beaten and added later. There are cakes where it isn't a case. How am I supposed to guess?
But it's a recipe on site, and it actually had (seemingly) explicit step-by-step instruction, and praise, and no complaint in the comments (though they complained about low rating...could be someone else had issues), so I went with it...I can get cookbooks mother and grandmother made for their own convenience. But people, if you post online, there will be beginners reading. And ingerdients aren't necessarily cheap. To say nothing of waste of time or if it was supposed to be prepared for some occasion. Can you not remember the time when you were starting? Or is this some deliberate elitist conspiracy?
Anyone else ran into "it goes without saying" recipe problems? Any bad recipe problems? Or just any recent kitchen mishap you need to vent about?