Thursday, January 29, 2009

Chocolate Caramels

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title: Chocolate Caramels

Ingredients:

* 370 grams sugar
* 500 grams heavy cream
* 350 grams glucose
* 24 grams butter
* 50 grams honey
* 50 grams dark chocolate , can be express, orange, etc

Directions:Cream, sugar, glucose, honey cooked to 248 degrees
off heat
add chocolate and butter
pan, spray paper spray
pour into a quarter sheet pan, cool
Should be firm but not solid, a slowly pressed knife should cut through
Pre coat bottom with tempered chocolate
cut into 1" squares
Enrobe with Tempered milk chocolate
finish with grains of Kosher saltCooked caramel

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Baguette dough


Ingredients:
  • 21.25 ounces bread flour
  • 16 ounces water, warmed
  • .5 ounce yeast, fresh
  • .4 ounce salt
  • 1.5 ounces wheat germ
Directions:water, yeast
flour
germ
salt
mix around 7 minutes
bowl, spray , dough, cover
ferment
punch
scale 16oz (2)
shape
rest
shape
rest
in pan proof

Monday, January 12, 2009

Why?

Why is there no photo support in iBlogger iPod app???

Gingerbread season went well

Well Xmas has come and gone. Our gingerbread village went very well and had very few structural problems. New Mexico weather tends to dry out the royal icing fast but we just had daily inspection to keep the houses up and looking good.