Myriad Musings

When your oven throws flat donuts at you, make a donut pudding :) The whole recipe simply fell in place without any thought. Zoe at the Artisan Breads had reiterated the necessity of finishing the donuts, which are really just rather thin bread, within 2 hours of baking, I ignored her to clear out my fridge and ended up with about 8 donuts extra.  I stored them in the fridge overnight.  Gau found the donuts rather dull the next morning. I was toying with the idea of warming it in the toaster when I noticed I had exactly 1 egg leftover and the 3 egg whites from making the dough were still sitting pretty, waiting to be useful.  I took it all out and put it on the counter. I tore up the donuts and let it steep in a cup of milk for 30 minutes. I was sorely tempted to throw in a handful of cranberries and raisins, but I desisted.  Ash always picks out nuts and raisins.  He loves them on their own, not as part of a dessert. I then beat the solitary egg with 2 ...

I finally crashed with a artisan bread in 5 a day recipe . I didn't burn, no.  But I definitely crashed, making donuts.  It could have been all the substitutions I made, it could have been the bad luck I brought on myself by savouring the pleasure of my past 2 weeks successes, I don't know.  My donuts came out looking like a Frittata.  They tasted good, great even with the chocolate pastry cream, but they barely rose.  They had a tendency to spread out horizontally, enough to close the hole I had formed at the center even, but vertically? Barely 1/2 cm :( My neighbour said they reminded her of a Keralite dessert - some variation of Elai Adai made with fruits and coconuts I wanted to make a custard/pudding for the Aspiring bakers group's 24th challenge . This month's host is Charmaine of Mimi's Bakery house. I tried to make a chai-flavoured custard first, using agar-agar instead of eggs or gelatine.  The agar-agar did not dissolve properly and the wh...