First off let me start with this: I never knew I could butcher a simple recipe so bad and still have a success! I'm baking the second batch now hopefully they will be as good as the first.
The Cup Cakes
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
3/4 cup oil
1/2 cup applesauce
2 Tablespoons Vanilla extract*
blend well
mix and then add to the sugar batter
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
mix that well then add
3 cups grated carrot
1/2 cup pecans
1/2 cup raisins
I then baked this concoction at 350 for 20 minutes.
They fucking rule. Hopefully my SO who I'm making these for will agree.
*I was only supposed to add 2 teaspoons. However they worked with 2 tablespoons.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Adventures in home canning
I have always heard how easy it is to do your own canning. I never believed it until yesterday and now I think it's fairly easy for such a pain in the ass. So as you have been reading I have been working with a lot of apples. I need to figure out a way to store these things. I am very concerned about my apples as I'm going to be going out of town to High Point North Carolina Thursday afternoon. As for tomorrow I have to take care of my ailing S.O., go buy a pillow, go to a job interview and then go to my friend's wedding reception. So I'm hoping my apples won't soften up too much while I'm out of town. So yesterday I made some applesauce in a crock pot and then attempted canning.
I didn't just attempt I succeed so as previously promised since I didn't screw it up here is how I pulled it.
I should also give a big mention to Matt who helped and most of all my Grandma who told me the basics.
Canning
Take your jars lids and rings. Wash them all with soapy water, dry them with clean paper towels.
Put jars in boiling vat of water I used a big stock pot. Place lids in warm/simmering water. Take scalding hot jar out of the water fill it with sauce leaving about 1/2 an inch from the top. Run a butter knife around the sides to let extra air out of the applesauce. Place the warm lid on the jar and screw the ring on. Repeat until you run out of applesauce.
(Now for the fun part)
Put all of your filled and closed jars back into the vat of boiling water. Make sure the water is high enough to cover the top. Let the jars sit in the boiling (like crazy rolling boil) for 20 minutes. Take them out of the water and let them relax on the counter. Within a few minuted you will begin to hear the lids pop. This means you did it right!
I didn't just attempt I succeed so as previously promised since I didn't screw it up here is how I pulled it.
I should also give a big mention to Matt who helped and most of all my Grandma who told me the basics.
Canning
Take your jars lids and rings. Wash them all with soapy water, dry them with clean paper towels.
Put jars in boiling vat of water I used a big stock pot. Place lids in warm/simmering water. Take scalding hot jar out of the water fill it with sauce leaving about 1/2 an inch from the top. Run a butter knife around the sides to let extra air out of the applesauce. Place the warm lid on the jar and screw the ring on. Repeat until you run out of applesauce.
(Now for the fun part)
Put all of your filled and closed jars back into the vat of boiling water. Make sure the water is high enough to cover the top. Let the jars sit in the boiling (like crazy rolling boil) for 20 minutes. Take them out of the water and let them relax on the counter. Within a few minuted you will begin to hear the lids pop. This means you did it right!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thieving bastard loaf pan gnomes.
So after a most successful trip to beautiful Ellijay Georgia I now am the proud owner of 1/2 a bushel of Golden Mutsu apples and a peck of winesap apples. So I have begun the work of turning these apples into sortable and delicious items. Friday I went ahead and made applesauce.
Criss Cross Applesauce
4 cored, peeled, sliced Apples
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1/2 tablespoon cinnamon (or however much you feel like)
Put in pan cook to death (death may take up to 45 mins)
throw in food processor or blender and turn into applesauce
I then put said apple sauce into freezer quart bags, let it cool out on the cabinet and then threw it in the freezer for future plans.
Sunday is the future!
I went ahead and came up with something to do with my piles of apples. I made some apple bread. It's actually cooling as I type. However this is not a story of my apple bread because I don't know if it worked yet. It may have just made the house smell like apple bread but in reality be a delicious smelling awful loaf of crap.
I have finished the dough for my bread and it is now time to put said dough into the loaf pans. When it comes to my attention that the pans are not where they should be. This is no cause for worry I often misplace things in my kitchen (I have a very very small galley style kitchen). I look beneath the oven drawer. I reach my hand behind the drawer it isn't uncommon for pans to fall behind the drawer. I burn my arm on my preheated oven. I curse and move on to the cabinets of darkness where pots, pans, griddles and the never used espresso maker live . I find one glass loaf pan, it isn't mine it's my boyfriends and it's 9 inch pan. I want my 8inch pans. I fall to my knees and skid them. It hurts. I curse I make my boyfriend stop his work and help me. They are gone.
Questions flood my mind. Who would I have loaned bread pans to?
How many deal of day bread pans didn't I buy because I thought I had these beautiful 3 pans?
Where could they have gone?
I settle down and just throw enough batter for two 8 inch pans into one 9 inch pan.
Criss Cross Applesauce
4 cored, peeled, sliced Apples
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1/2 tablespoon cinnamon (or however much you feel like)
Put in pan cook to death (death may take up to 45 mins)
throw in food processor or blender and turn into applesauce
I then put said apple sauce into freezer quart bags, let it cool out on the cabinet and then threw it in the freezer for future plans.
Sunday is the future!
I went ahead and came up with something to do with my piles of apples. I made some apple bread. It's actually cooling as I type. However this is not a story of my apple bread because I don't know if it worked yet. It may have just made the house smell like apple bread but in reality be a delicious smelling awful loaf of crap.
I have finished the dough for my bread and it is now time to put said dough into the loaf pans. When it comes to my attention that the pans are not where they should be. This is no cause for worry I often misplace things in my kitchen (I have a very very small galley style kitchen). I look beneath the oven drawer. I reach my hand behind the drawer it isn't uncommon for pans to fall behind the drawer. I burn my arm on my preheated oven. I curse and move on to the cabinets of darkness where pots, pans, griddles and the never used espresso maker live . I find one glass loaf pan, it isn't mine it's my boyfriends and it's 9 inch pan. I want my 8inch pans. I fall to my knees and skid them. It hurts. I curse I make my boyfriend stop his work and help me. They are gone.
Questions flood my mind. Who would I have loaned bread pans to?
How many deal of day bread pans didn't I buy because I thought I had these beautiful 3 pans?
Where could they have gone?
I settle down and just throw enough batter for two 8 inch pans into one 9 inch pan.
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