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pinstripe_bindi

Merry Day After Christmas

Dec 26, 2022 12:08

I've liked this day better than Christmas ever since becoming an adult. There's so much to do on Christmas, the day after is when everyone can actually relax. My cheeses were devoured and everyone liked the pie, that's my contribution to the day. I also made breakfast, but it was just Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Phil's blood sugar was pretty good, so ( Read more... )

donna hay, christmas, foodie, family drama, smitten kitchen, claire saffitz, booze, deb perlman, essential oils, parenting your parents

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sirena73 December 26 2022, 20:09:49 UTC

Okay, now I'm understanding where my Basque great uncle got the idea for red wine mixed with Coke! We all just thought that's how he'd try to hide how much he was drinking from my great aunt.

Your package is going out Friday, as I realized today when I was standing in front of the dark, empty post office that TODAY was their holiday. Whoops on me.

pinstripe_bindi December 27 2022, 00:24:14 UTC

No worries, the thing I bought you hasn't shipped yet either (it's a small business). It will be a new year present.

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pinstripe_bindi December 27 2022, 00:23:27 UTC

The Russian bots are also annoyed at my sister.

taz_39 December 28 2022, 01:47:45 UTC

My mom duplicates gifts too. This year she gave me her homemade vanilla extract, bottled 11/22/2021. Guess what I got last year? Homemade vanilla extract...bottled 11/22/2021. Lol.

I've ended up commenting on a lot of your posts this week, sorry for the bombardment! However I want to ask: if Dessert Person has Claire's recipe for Maple Walnut Sticky Buns, would you mind telling me if she ends up separating the butter quantities for the FILLING vs the TOPPING in her recipe book? I am interested in buying her book, but online she gives ingredient quantities as a total instead of telling you which parts of the recipe will use what amount, if that makes sense. It makes her recipes extremely difficult to follow for me. Thanks and happy holidays!

pinstripe_bindi December 28 2022, 17:15:45 UTC

No problem, I'll never complain about people commenting too much. I'm getting the book today, so I'll take a look for you,

pinstripe_bindi December 29 2022, 21:26:11 UTC

There's a recipe for "Walnut-Maple Buns" that I assume is the one. She does give a total of 8 tablespoons of butter in the side list, but in the directions she clearly says to use 4 tbsp. in the topping and 4 in the filling. The dough itself has its own recipe for "sweet yeast dough" that calls for 10 tbsp. Maybe that's where you got confused? The All About Cake cookbook from Milk Bar is like that, a lot of the cakes/fillings/frostings have their own stand-alone recipes, and then she just combines them in specific ways to make different cakes.

taz_39 December 29 2022, 21:44:41 UTC

Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to look at that recipe on my behalf.

No, that 8 Tbsp is exactly where the confusion was. In the written recipe you have there, it's great that she tells you when to separate the butter. The problem was with this same recipe on her YouTube channel, she does NOT write out the recipe steps, only the ingredient quantities. So you have to watch the 25-minute video, and find the exact spots where she puts things together, to see when and how she separates the quantities.

So the first close call I had was with salt...in the ingredients listed below the video she does NOT include salt in the topping/filling ingredients, but in the video she DOES, throwing it in as a casual afterthought like 18 minutes in lol. I very nearly missed it.

And I did miss the part where she separates out the butter for the topping and the filling. Luckily it made little difference, but I was annoyed that instructions weren't given and she expected her followers to watch such a long video multiple times to find ( ... )

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