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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 30, 2019 20:33:35 GMT
Used a recipe book that I picked up in a charity shop today. Nice easy recipe for white chocolate and macadamia nut muffins. Only the oven temperatures in the book are rather vague. 'A moderately hot oven' which I interpreted successfully as 160°C (fan)
Jolly nice, it threw me tho when there were no temperatures given.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 1, 2019 12:44:06 GMT
Used a recipe book that I picked up in a charity shop today. Nice easy recipe for white chocolate and macadamia nut muffins. Only the oven temperatures in the book are rather vague. 'A moderately hot oven' which I interpreted successfully as 160°C (fan) Jolly nice, it threw me tho when there were no temperatures given. They probably imagined you'd be cooking on an Aga. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 1, 2019 18:23:25 GMT
I once lived in a house that had a stove from the 1920s. It was quite pretty -- enameled white with mint green touches and it stood on gracefully slender legs. But the oven had no thermostat nor temperature markings. Even so, once I got used to it I even turned out tricky little items like cream puffs in it. This was in Louisiana and I swear baking is more successful in low altitudes than in high ones.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 3, 2019 11:56:35 GMT
Yes, I guess that must be a great difference between Louisiana and Oaxaca, both of which I simply think of as blessedly warm.
I always want to tell Nigella to tie her hair back. She cooks in cashmere...
Once I took a huge coffee-table sized book on cuisines of Indonesia out of the library. I mostly perused it as escapism in the winter. The author (who wasn't Indonesian) was sternly admonishing readers not to use spice pastes and other mixtures. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Indonesians, at least urban-dwellers, use those themselves nowadays.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 4, 2019 18:02:02 GMT
The few Aga owners I know (3) also have a conventional oven for precision cookery
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