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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Another Flop in Allergy Cooking
I attempted substituting allergy safe ingredients for our speculaas cookies. I only made a half batch. The resulting dough was tasty, but the cookie didn't hold their shape when baking. The results looked like lace cookies, spread out and with holes.
So you can learn from my mistakes, here are the ingredients:
1 cup Spectrum shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 Tofutti sour cream
1/4 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup oat flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1/2 cup potato starch
1/4 cup corn starch
I omitted the nuts. The dough was very close to consistency and taste of the original.
But he had fun rolling and cutting....
and tasting!So success with taste and fun, but failure at baking. Two out of three isn't that bad!
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Come for Coffee...
...and Stay for Cake! That's the newest 4Real Cooking Blog from Margaret at Minnesota Mom. I know she's a kindred spirit and I plan on checking often -- she loves coffee and chocolate! Need I say more?
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Eve of St. Nicholas
I haven't forgotten about my cooking blog, it's just that we do so much traveling in the fall that I don't have much creativity in the kitchen. Now that Advent has begun, I have begun to pull out the recipes for our family traditions.
I realized how little I've been baking when I mixed the dough for the speculaas cookies last night, preparing for our St. Nicholas Cookie Baking Party tonight. I really love the taste of those cookies. I only bake them once a year, and every year I think I'll be tired of them...and I'm not. We substitute all butter for the lard, so it's 2 cups of butter. Rich, tasty and once a year indulgence!
I have to admit that baking is now a bittersweet time for me. So much joy and memories come from baking certain recipes...and I am saddened to think that some things I may never be able to share with my son. I pray that he will outgrow the food allergies, but he might not. And I think of how many people never will lose their allergies. I don't like placing importance in food, but family time and traditions are usually around meals and dessert.
I am attempting an allergy free version of this speculaas, and will post with the results later.
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
New 4Real Cooking Blog!
Across the Atlantic Bookworm has opened Bookworm's Cook Book. She present recipes from several unique perspectives (at least in my view), some Jewish cooking (as her husband is Jewish), British Liturgical Year recipes and other English recipes. Looking forward to the recipes, Kathryn!
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