That wasn't in the recipe...
Dec. 10th, 2010 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscEvery year sometime in the late fall we make a batch (three loaves) of cranberry-orange bread. We decided to do this year's today because John has to bring something to a potluck tomorrow.
The recipe calls for "the juice and rind of one orange" (we use two because we double the recipe), with an explanatory note saying "cut up minus pips and blend". So the first step is generally to take out the blender.
The second step is not supposed to be to have the container portion of the blender fall off and land on the floor, shattering into many tiny pieces.
After the also-unplanned sweeping-up step, there came the question of how to actually proceed. Well, we have a food processor (actually, we have a blender/food-processor combo, except that the blender portion has just been rendered unusable), so we tried that, but it really doesn't handle orange rind very well, and it got all clogged up with pieces of rind that were still too big to put in the batter. So I grated all the zest from the second orange, in the hopes that the remainder would go through the processor OK, but it didn't, although we were able to extract all the juice.
Apart from using rather more bowls and utensils than usual (because we usually put the eggs, sugar, butter and oil through the blender as well), things went sort of Ok from there, although we had to add some bottled apple juice to get the batter to the appropriate consistency. Oh,and then about five minutes after we put the loaves in the oven I noticed that the timer still said 30 minutes, which is what I'd set it to initially.
We're going to find out shortly how it came out. Meanwhile, a new blender jar has been ordered.
The recipe calls for "the juice and rind of one orange" (we use two because we double the recipe), with an explanatory note saying "cut up minus pips and blend". So the first step is generally to take out the blender.
The second step is not supposed to be to have the container portion of the blender fall off and land on the floor, shattering into many tiny pieces.
After the also-unplanned sweeping-up step, there came the question of how to actually proceed. Well, we have a food processor (actually, we have a blender/food-processor combo, except that the blender portion has just been rendered unusable), so we tried that, but it really doesn't handle orange rind very well, and it got all clogged up with pieces of rind that were still too big to put in the batter. So I grated all the zest from the second orange, in the hopes that the remainder would go through the processor OK, but it didn't, although we were able to extract all the juice.
Apart from using rather more bowls and utensils than usual (because we usually put the eggs, sugar, butter and oil through the blender as well), things went sort of Ok from there, although we had to add some bottled apple juice to get the batter to the appropriate consistency. Oh,and then about five minutes after we put the loaves in the oven I noticed that the timer still said 30 minutes, which is what I'd set it to initially.
We're going to find out shortly how it came out. Meanwhile, a new blender jar has been ordered.
