Dirty Harry taunts you into action. Are you ready for it?
Friends, this is it. At least for the next few days, anyway. Thanks to the Goddess Patricia, I’ll be back out in the Hinternet by Friday, but I have to do pesky things like Pointing Out where the furniture goes. I might even have to carry a box or two. There is the slim yet alarming possibility that I may actually Break a Sweat. Oh, dear.
Well, wish us luck, and I’ll be back in a few days. Just so you are aware, I might force you to look at pictures of the new house.
Before I go, I read a Thing the other day about a lady who presents complicated recipes on Twitter. In one tweet. That means she has to stay within the 140 character limit. Oh, I just found the Thing. You can read all about her here. She’s @cookbook on Twitter.
Inspired by old Maureen, I gave it a shot with crème brulée the other day, but here are a couple more, just for fun. Yes, I realize this isn’t Twitter. I’m just practicing.
wht.choc/cr chz buttercream: melt/cool 9oz. wht choc. Whip 12oz. cr chz, 6 oz butter, salt and lemon juice, tt, w/wht. choc–123 characters
Mex wedding cookies: cr: 1lb butter/1c.10x. Add 2Tvan,1tsalt,2c.toasted,grnd nuts. Mix in 5c sifted AP. chill, ball,325F, toss in 10x/cinn–138 characters
Coconut sorbet: whisk coconut milk, lemon simple syrup, H2O, coco rum, salt and lime juice, tt. Egg test. Chill, spin–118 characters
Lb cake: 3oz mlk,10.5ozeggs, 12gvan, 10.5oz cakeflr, 10.5ozsugar, 5gpdr, 5gsalt, 13.5oz.butter, 3Tzest, 3Tpoppyseeds. Creaming Method. 350F–140 characters
Pretty cool, huh? Talk about a template! Before you think there’s not enough information in these wee Tweciplettes (I just made that up. I’m not proud), look again more closely. In such a short format, the explanation of the procedures suffers, because the author/tweeter/Twecipletter wants you to have all of the ingredient information. Procedures are skeletal at best, forcing you out of your recipe comfort zone and into relying on what you already know about procedures and techniques. Do you know enough? Love it? Hate it? Challenged by it? What do you think? Feeling lucky, punk? Oh, sorry about that last one.
Anyway, it’s something to think about. Hope everyone has a Most Excellent rest of the week and weekend. Looking forward to being settled and back at it pretty soon.
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