Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Aug 29th 2008, 4:25 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
I agree - muffin tins are not the same.
But muffin TOP tins appear to be. LOL some of us silly yanks apparently only like the tops of muffins, not the bottom part - so these are pans to make just the top part.
According to Keith anyway, they're pretty much the same as the yorkshire pud tins.
http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant...uct_Code=30208
But muffin TOP tins appear to be. LOL some of us silly yanks apparently only like the tops of muffins, not the bottom part - so these are pans to make just the top part.
According to Keith anyway, they're pretty much the same as the yorkshire pud tins.
http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant...uct_Code=30208
My aunt made the best puds I've ever had-here OR the UK. 
Aug 29th 2008, 4:42 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
I agree - muffin tins are not the same.
But muffin TOP tins appear to be. LOL some of us silly yanks apparently only like the tops of muffins, not the bottom part - so these are pans to make just the top part.
According to Keith anyway, they're pretty much the same as the yorkshire pud tins.
http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant...uct_Code=30208
But muffin TOP tins appear to be. LOL some of us silly yanks apparently only like the tops of muffins, not the bottom part - so these are pans to make just the top part.
According to Keith anyway, they're pretty much the same as the yorkshire pud tins.
http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant...uct_Code=30208
Probably are used primarily in the US for Popovers.
Aug 29th 2008, 4:51 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
I'd imagine so - I couldn't believe there was actually a pan just to make muffin TOPS.
Supposedly they do make the "proper" size puds though. There are various places to order them online.
Supposedly they do make the "proper" size puds though. There are various places to order them online.
Aug 29th 2008, 5:00 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Have just moved to Potomac in Maryland with Husband and two children and would very much like to do some cooking. Any tips on labels on food mostly purchased from Giant (only a couple of miles down the road and am still a bit scared driving !!!).
I was trying to just buy plain flour and ended up buying 'all purpose flour' but have no idea what will happen to my yorkshire puds if I use this one !!! Have promised my husband will do a proper Sunday roast this weekend. I don't do that much baking and I know most Americans buy cake mixes - but I have a bit of British pride that none of my baking will come from a packet.
We try and eat a healthy diet and trying to decipher the labels on packaging is a nightmare.
Help Help Help - please !!!
I was trying to just buy plain flour and ended up buying 'all purpose flour' but have no idea what will happen to my yorkshire puds if I use this one !!! Have promised my husband will do a proper Sunday roast this weekend. I don't do that much baking and I know most Americans buy cake mixes - but I have a bit of British pride that none of my baking will come from a packet.
We try and eat a healthy diet and trying to decipher the labels on packaging is a nightmare.
Help Help Help - please !!!
Pay attn while shopping... would often see Linda Carter and John Glenn shop there... (I think they live down falls rd twds Great Falls). Stallone's dad lives outthere and Sugar Ray Leonard.
Potomac Pizza did great pizza and italian subs when I was there.. don't know what they're like now! Ahh, memory lane.
Aug 29th 2008, 5:06 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Here's a recipe in US measurements, with our flour etc. They always rise for me... (although now I live in terror I'll try to make them for company, and that will be the day they won't). Don't know if this will help.
btw.. we sell "Muffin Top Pans" here - which double perfectly for yorkshire pud tins if anyone needs one.
Yorkshire Pudding
Batter
1/2 pint milk (1 1/5 cup approx.)
4 oz all-purpose flour (scant 1 cup)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
pinch pepper
To Bake
fat drippings from roast beef (ideally, but anything should work)
1 Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2 Beat eggs till foamy with whire whisk.
3 Beat in milk and salt.
4 Gradually beat in flour till smooth.
5 Put some hot fat from roast into 8 tins, 4" across, 1/2" deep; put in oven till sizzling hot.
6 Swirl fat to coat pan; pour batter into tins.
7 Bake 20-30 minutes; do not disturb while cooking.
I matched this recipe up with a one from a friend in Yorkshire - seems the same thing.
btw.. we sell "Muffin Top Pans" here - which double perfectly for yorkshire pud tins if anyone needs one.
Yorkshire Pudding
Batter
1/2 pint milk (1 1/5 cup approx.)
4 oz all-purpose flour (scant 1 cup)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
pinch pepper
To Bake
fat drippings from roast beef (ideally, but anything should work)
1 Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2 Beat eggs till foamy with whire whisk.
3 Beat in milk and salt.
4 Gradually beat in flour till smooth.
5 Put some hot fat from roast into 8 tins, 4" across, 1/2" deep; put in oven till sizzling hot.
6 Swirl fat to coat pan; pour batter into tins.
7 Bake 20-30 minutes; do not disturb while cooking.
I matched this recipe up with a one from a friend in Yorkshire - seems the same thing.
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/y...ng,745,RC.html I add one egg white to this.
Last edited by nethead; Aug 29th 2008 at 5:17 pm.
Aug 29th 2008, 5:09 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
I agree - muffin tins are not the same.
But muffin TOP tins appear to be. LOL some of us silly yanks apparently only like the tops of muffins, not the bottom part - so these are pans to make just the top part.
According to Keith anyway, they're pretty much the same as the yorkshire pud tins.
http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant...uct_Code=30208
But muffin TOP tins appear to be. LOL some of us silly yanks apparently only like the tops of muffins, not the bottom part - so these are pans to make just the top part.
According to Keith anyway, they're pretty much the same as the yorkshire pud tins.
http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant...uct_Code=30208
ETA:
These are the type I use but they are bun tins rather than 'traditional' YP ones: The shallow ones rather than the deep.
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/my-kitchen...ct/10940_10949
Last edited by nethead; Aug 29th 2008 at 5:14 pm. Reason: add link
Aug 29th 2008, 5:16 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Those look shallower and bigger in diameter than tins from home I use. See if I can find a link.
ETA:
These are the type I use but they are bun tins rather than 'traditional' YP ones: The shallow ones rather than the deep.
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/my-kitchen...ct/10940_10949
ETA:
These are the type I use but they are bun tins rather than 'traditional' YP ones: The shallow ones rather than the deep.
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/my-kitchen...ct/10940_10949
I was concerned with the muffin top tins - as they are so shallow. But the puds just puff way up over them and come out quite nicely.
As far as amt. of wet ingredients - I'm sure there are a bunch of recipes. That one did come from Yorkshire, and works for me... but no idea if its "the best" - I've never had anyone elses
Aug 29th 2008, 6:04 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
I bake mine in the mini muffin pan I bought from Pampered Chef !!??
Anyways back to conversions - creams next - we have double and single cream and I need some double cream for a recipe - can you help ??
Anyways back to conversions - creams next - we have double and single cream and I need some double cream for a recipe - can you help ??
Aug 29th 2008, 6:15 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Single cream = Half & Half
Both in the dairy section near the milk.
Aug 29th 2008, 6:22 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Half and half = single
BTW if / when you get to making Xmas puddings - suet just aint the same here, and candied fruit / peel is only available near xmas. At least that's what I found in this area (MA / RI)
Also I've found (with my oven anyway) that the cooking is way slower - no fans, bigger oven and the element is at the bottom so stuff doesn't brown as easily - you have to use the broiler for a final brown....
I'll think of more stuff later I'm sure....
Aug 29th 2008, 6:27 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Thanks for that - will I be able to get cocoa powder ??
Any recommendations for cooking chocolate ? - can you get white chocolate here ??
Have a sweet tooth - someone has just sent me a box of celebration chocolates from home - am very happy !!
Any recommendations for cooking chocolate ? - can you get white chocolate here ??
Have a sweet tooth - someone has just sent me a box of celebration chocolates from home - am very happy !!
Aug 29th 2008, 6:28 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Heavy cream = double
Half and half = single
BTW if / when you get to making Xmas puddings - suet just aint the same here, and candied fruit / peel is only available near xmas. At least that's what I found in this area (MA / RI)
Also I've found (with my oven anyway) that the cooking is way slower - no fans, bigger oven and the element is at the bottom so stuff doesn't brown as easily - you have to use the broiler for a final brown....
I'll think of more stuff later I'm sure....
Half and half = single
BTW if / when you get to making Xmas puddings - suet just aint the same here, and candied fruit / peel is only available near xmas. At least that's what I found in this area (MA / RI)
Also I've found (with my oven anyway) that the cooking is way slower - no fans, bigger oven and the element is at the bottom so stuff doesn't brown as easily - you have to use the broiler for a final brown....
I'll think of more stuff later I'm sure....
I once got the stuff and ground it myself (quite the project, but it was good).
I suspect the suet pre-ground in the grocery store is all sorts of stuff, not just the kidney suet (which is the good stuff). So I always ask a butcher for it.
True, you can just get the candied peel near xmas. Although it isn't too hard to make yourself if you're desperate (which I was one year, as the pudding needed to start too far in advance of xmas)
Aug 29th 2008, 6:30 pm
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White chocolate is available - but be careful, there is something that looks like it but is a substitute, and is nasty. Make sure what you get has actual cocoa in it - often something imported. Edit: I think it's cocoa that belongs in there, I'm going to have a search and make sure I'm right on that.
Ghirardelli seems ok for cooking chocolate - except I'm not sure what you mean... baking chocolate (unsweetened entirely) exists in the baking aisle. There are all sorts of milk chocoloate or semi-sweet chocolates to use in baking.
What are you making, and what kind of chocolate does it call for?
Aug 29th 2008, 6:32 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
Cocoa butter is the ingredient you want in white chocolate - to differentiate it from the nasty substitute.
Aug 29th 2008, 6:35 pm
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Re: Cooking and supermarkets - help !!!
it's a chocolate pudding - at home I would normally use eating chocolate rather than our yucky baking chocolate. Will probably try and buy some Lindt - if it's the same Swiss stuff we get at home !!!