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Skriven 2015-04-06 15:08:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JANIS KRACHT
Ärende: Re: Turkish food
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-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 03-31-15  10:55 <=-

 >> I always make things from this cookbook as written the first time,
 >> to get a sense of the original 'spice level', etc.  Then I go from
 >> there for the next round of a particular recipe :)
 > That makes good sense... unless one has done a particular mix of
 > ingredients already in a similar recipe, or is VERY good at "mixing"
 > tastes in one's head, doing it straight the first time would be called
 > for to find out how things actually do merge...  :)

 JK> I'm usually pretty good at figuring out what a dish will be like from
 JK> reading a recipe.. I can tell pretty much if a recipe will be one we
 JK> want to repeat, etc. for instance.  Going by an original recipe the
 JK> first time is just a habit I got into long ago I guess. :)

Not so bad a habit, though... :)  For some things I can get a pretty
good idea just reading through, too, but others it might be wiser to try
it straight first...  :)
 
 >> ==Turkish Delight (Lokum)==
 > My son brought home some of that that he'd bought in Turkey, for me
 > to have some... various flavors...  :)   That visit had been just a
 > touristy stopover...

 JK> It must have been a welcome gift :)  Perhaps we can make some for the
 JK> next picnic.. I always have geletin in the house since I use it in a
 JK> bread dough enhancer.  It keeps home-made bread fresh longer (not that
 JK> bread stays around here very long when I make it (G)).

I never needed anything to keep home-made bread stay fresh longer... it
tended to disappear pretty fast as it was...  :)

 > at the moment, he's actually got a job there for a couple
 > months... :)

 JK> Nice, maybe he'll bring some more goodies home when he returns :)

It's likely to take a while... I don't expect him stateside until
sometime in the summer... might not see him until late summer or the
fall...  But he might bring home more goodies, never know... ;)

 JK> ===Bread Dough Enhancer===
 JK> 1 cup wheat gluten
 JK> 2 tablespoons lecithin granules
 JK> 1 teaspoon ascorbic acid crystals
 JK> 2 tablespoons powdered pectin
 JK> 2 tablespoons unflavored gelatin
 JK> 1/2 cup nonfat dry milk
 JK> 1 teaspoon powdered ginger

I think all I normally have on hand would be the powdered ginger and
possibly the unflavored gelatin...  ;)  At one time, there would have
also been nonfat dry milk, but not lately...

ttyl      neb

... Workarounds are lifesavers... until they get waterlogged... ;)

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