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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:19 pm

Super stuff. Thanks Bea!

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby liketocook » Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:24 pm

Gillthepainter wrote:have you got a link to it please, KC & L2C?

It's adapted from a book by Mona Maynard called "Cakes and Baking" I bought in the late 1980s and isn't online.
Recipe:
225g self raising flour
1/2 tsp salt
1tsp cinnamon
175g soft brown sugar
100g butter or marge
2 eggs beaten
2-3 very ripe bananas mashed
100g raisins or sultanas (optional)
50g chopped walnuts (optional)

Cream sugar & butter, add eggs and beat thoroughly. Fold in bananas, raisins and nuts then dry ingredients until well combined.
Bake in a 2lb loaf tin at 160C for 1-11/4 hours until a skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool before slicing.
In the original recipe it's glazed with 2tbsps hone, walnut halves and banana slices dipped in lemon juice but I've never bothered doing that.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Mon Apr 27, 2020 2:17 pm

Marvellous. Thanks L2C. :thumbsup

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby WWordsworth » Mon Apr 27, 2020 6:21 pm

I made a plum crumble at the weekend, using the last of the plums from the freezer.

Yesterday I made my usual wholemeal bread.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby PatsyMFagan » Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:21 am

I plan on baking another Apple dish this week : Easy Apple Slice that I may have mentioned elsewhere on this forum ?

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Amyw » Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:39 am

Made a simple chocolate sponge yesterday at work but the icing was a bit sloppy so not photo worthy . Some very nice homemade blackberry jam I’d bought at a market as the filling elevated it a bit

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby aero280 » Tue Apr 28, 2020 12:35 pm

I’ve spent most of lockdown clearing and tidying the shed. But that’s mostly done now. So I’m back in the house and doing some baking.

In an attempt to use up the smoked salmon Trimmings we got from Costco, I made a quiche.

I make a whole meal loaf every two or three days, and I’ve done a batch of the Dan Lepard spelt crackers. Yesterday evening I made a cauliflower cheese, which I hope is OK. We were a bit short of milk, so I bulked they sauce out with some spare yogurt, which caused it to separate/curdle. It did thicken, but looked grainy. I got OH to taste it and she is still alive this morning!! :o

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby dennispc » Tue Apr 28, 2020 12:56 pm

Focaccia - based on Richard Bertinet.

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Looks good, but not my best, needed another five minutes and more olive oil.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Amyw » Tue Apr 28, 2020 1:06 pm

That looks lovely bet it smells gorgeous

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby dennispc » Tue Apr 28, 2020 4:36 pm

Certainly did AmyW.

As for glazes, here's a page from Treuile and Ferrigno's Bread.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Uschi » Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:17 pm

I've got a cherry-chocolate cake in the oven. Should be ready in a quarter of an hour or so. And cool enough to eat for Kaffee ... Magic1 :klingonbanana

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Amyw » Wed Apr 29, 2020 3:57 pm

How do you make the cake cherryish? Does it have actual cherries in the batter ?

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Uschi » Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:20 pm

Yes, it does.
We have cherries in jars over here (in general the fruit in jars and tins is a little less sweetened than in the UK) and I let them drip dry (the juice partly went into the batter and I drank the rest).

The recipe is for a traybake and they sink in a bit. Last time I tried it in a round tin I added them to the batter before transferring it into the tin which was nice, they were well-distributed. This time I left them on top, which resulted in a rather ugly looking cake, especially now I have covered it in chocolate. Very mishappen, but I know that the flavour is great, so I am not complaining.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Amyw » Wed Apr 29, 2020 5:13 pm

Ah that sounds nice, I love chocolate and cherries together

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Uschi » Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:59 pm

It works really well. It's plain chocolate and a plain chocolate covering. And ugly though this cake looks, it smells and tastes lovely.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Stokey Sue » Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:32 pm

Today I did something I’ve been thinking of doing for months, and made burger buns, slightly brioche style
Based on this recipe, which as you will see is for a stand mixer, which I don’t have

https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/soft-l ... gers-buns/

I stuck to the recipe with a few modifications as I was using a handheld mixer and fast action (easy blend) yeast

I mixed one envelope of yeast with the flours and dissolved the salt and 2 tbs of sugar in the milk and water, heating for 1 minute in the microwave
The butter ( I decided 2.5 tbs was 35g) wasn’t all that soft so I rubbed it in to the flour then added the liquid and beaten egg - it needed a splash more liquid

I mixed it for a lot less than 10 minutes as my mixer was finding it hard work, it may never be the same again, next time I’ll try the Magimix
It rose beautifully in a bit less than 2 hours, and was quite easy to shape, the buns rose in an hour then were glazed and asked for 15 minutes at 180 C fan

Pretty good. Could do with slightly more salt, and funnily enough the extra 0.5 tbs sugar. Would definitely do again
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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Grasshopper » Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:11 pm

Mum & me had a GREAT baking session this avo.
Some was done with HM pastry - while some was done with bought pastry.

2 small boxes (already cooked), of last year's rhubarb crop went into a rhubarb pie (which is delish)
A batch of sausage rolls (I did those) sausage meat, whizzed-up onion, salt and about 1/2 a teaspoon dried sage (tasty!)
3 corned beef, onion & potato pies, which have gone in the freezer
and 6 small, individual-portion cheese, onion and broccoli bakes, which have also gone in the freezer

YUM!
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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Amyw » Fri May 01, 2020 12:11 am

Gorgeous looking rolls Sue

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Earthmaiden » Fri May 01, 2020 1:12 am

They look wonderful, Sue. I had no idea you could attempt to make bread dough with a hand mixer, it's the kneading I hate.

Grasshopper, what lovely goodies!

I'm torn between apple or lemon cake this weekend. The apples have been in the house longer than the lemons so I think it'll be apple. It'll be Uschi's recipe which sounds nicer than the one I've used for years.

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Re: What are you baking this week?

Postby Pepper Pig » Fri May 01, 2020 6:41 am

I’m going to have a go at this at the weekend. Banana bread with a difference.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/a ... down-bread

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