Chadwick's Recipe for April 2009

[JRChadwick]

Just reposting the recipe from the last forum.

Hey guys, so sorry it took me forever to get back here. I've been really busy.

OK, my creative outlet is cooking. You got it right.

I would like to share my recipes here. I think one recipe a month will be a quota I can meet. I use American standard units of measurement. For many of my recipes it should be easy enough to convert to metric, however baking is much more precise and I can not convert as easily.

What is the more common way of measuring ingredients in Europe? Grams or litters?


Here is my first recipe. Something simple and classic; chocolate chip cookies.

You will need the following:

,½ Cup unsalted butter (one stick.)

1 Cup Golden Brown Sugar
1 Cup Sugar

1 Table Spoon Vanilla Extract

1 Large Egg

1.5 Cups All Purpose Flour

1 Tea Spoon Salt
1 Tea Spoon Baking Powder

Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

First off, the butter has to be room temperature. Leave it out on the counter for a few hours until it gets soft. Place it in a deep mixing bowl and add the vanilla.

Beat it with an electric mixer on med-high until the mixture is creamy and a little fluffy.

Add the sugars and turn the mixer to low. Beet until evenly mixed.

Add the egg and continue mixing, increasing the speed when the mixture starts pulling together.

Combine the dry ingredients and sift into the batter and hand kneed.

Now, here is the best part. You can add as much chocolate chips as you want. I usually add about 8oz. Which is about 230g.

Grease a large cookie sheet.

Place the dough in ping-pong ball sized clump and bake at 350*F for 11 minutes.

Allow them to cool and remove the cookies from the pan.

 

[KyoraMishiso]

...Mmhhmmm...delicousss....cookieess...

 

[Aught3]

What is the more common way of measuring ingredients in Europe? Grams or litters?

Grams for solids. When you said 1/2 a cup of butter I was thinking wtf, how much is that in grams?
Powders can be given either as grams or cups (cups is best).
Litres is not often seen in recipes but is occasionally used for liquids, usually cup/spoon measurement is used.

If you are going to post recipes in both metric systems (please do!) the other unit to consider would be *F vs. *C

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Yummy... I'll be making this week, just as a comparison.

 

[GegoXAREN]

Grams for solids. When you said 1/2 a cup of butter I was thinking wtf, how much is that in grams?
Powders can be given either as grams or cups (cups is best).
Litres is not often seen in recipes but is occasionally used for liquids, usually cup/spoon measurement is used.

If you are going to post recipes in both metric systems (please do!) the other unit to consider would be *F vs. *C

fluids and powders are in liters , decilitres and/or centilitres (millilitres can occur) AND/OR table spoons, tea spoons and/or cups. (although cups is uncommon, but I have seen it..)
solids are in grams, hectograms and/or kilograms.

Temperature is always in Celsius.

butter can be fluid...
Is there liquid vanilla? I have only seen powder vanilla(-sugar)

 

[Whisperelmwood]

Is there liquid vanilla? I have only seen powder vanilla(-sugar)

Powder vanilla? Never bloody heard of it - I get such flavorings in little bottles of liquids o.o


As to the cookies - like I said in teh old post, MYGAWD the sugar content - though they look deliscious ^^

 

[JRChadwick]

Grams for solids. When you said 1/2 a cup of butter I was thinking wtf, how much is that in grams?
Powders can be given either as grams or cups (cups is best).
Litres is not often seen in recipes but is occasionally used for liquids, usually cup/spoon measurement is used.

If you are going to post recipes in both metric systems (please do!) the other unit to consider would be *F vs. *C

I do have a food scale. I can weigh a stick of butter and determine its mass. I do not know if a stick of butter looks different in other countries, but one stick here is considered 1/2 a cup. If you guys use cups and spoons than I do not even have to convert!

I am pretty good at converting mass and temperature. Volumes I am not so good at. Most of my recipes do not need to be precise so they will be easy to convert.

 

[Aught3]

I don't think I've ever seen a recipe where butter wasn't given in grams.

What is a 'stick' of butter is it like a 500g block you buy straight from the supermarket?

 

[Aught3]

Ok, I looked it up because it was annoying me, if anyone else wants to know one 'stick' of butter = 113.5g

Which is obviously a really irritating amount. I suppose the solution is to use 100g of hard butter then add a couple of extra teaspoons of semi-soft. Or just weigh it but I usually can't be bothered getting out the scales.

 

[GegoXAREN]

Powder vanilla? Never bloody heard of it - I get such flavorings in little bottles of liquids o.o


As to the cookies - like I said in teh old post, MYGAWD the sugar content - though they look deliscious ^^

this is the only form i knew you could get it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_sugar

oh w8... I think that you can get extract here to, just never used it...

 

[Whisperelmwood]

this is the only form i knew you could get it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_sugar

oh w8... I think that you can get extract here to, just never used it...

This is what I'm on about ^^

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Images/ExternalImages/ProductsDetailed/22/020922.jpg



If I wasn't on a diet, I'd so be making these cookies c.c

 

[JRChadwick]

I have never seen powdered vanilla before. I was using imitation vanilla because the real costs about ten times as much. Not something I buy often, but I thought I would just save a few bucks.

I guess I can post a salad recipe some time for you dieters.

 

[blackmetaljesus]

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups whole wheat flour
4-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 (12 oz) bottle of Sam Adams Boston Ale
4 tablespoons of melted butter

Mix the dry ingredients
Add beer
Mix it together
Put in loaf pan
Pour the butter on top of the dough
Cook for 50 minutes at 350F.

 

[Aught3]

Do you know any good Greek-style salad recipes?

 

[AndromedasWake]

I have to say I was not expecting to see a post like this.

Truly, you have redefined the 'creativity' section. Bravo sir... now SEND ME A COOKIE.

 

[JRChadwick]

I would, T.K., but these cookies do not e-mail well.

Here is another version of these cookies. Chocolate chip cookies covered with chocolate!

Ingredients:
8oz Bittersweet Baking Chocolate
1/4 Cup Butter
2 Table Spoons of Light Corn Syrup

Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler on low heat.
When both are completely melted remove from heat and whisk in the corn syrup.
Using a rubber spatula spread the chocolate thickly over the chocolate chip cookies.
Refrigerate for about thirty minutes for the glaze to harden.

Do you know any good Greek-style salad recipes?

Hmmm, maybe I can come up with something made with spinach and feta cheese.

 

[Brunks]

oh man that looks delicious, chocolate chip cookies + chocolate = GENIUS!

 

[JRChadwick]

Nothing goes better with chocolate than more chocolate!

I checked it out. A stick of butter is 113.5g.

 

[nasher168]

Will it work if I make one the size of a baking tray or will it just not cook in the middle?
If it will work, then I'm gonna do it and put an entire bar of lindt extra creamy on top when it goes in the oven...

 

[JRChadwick]

The problem with large cookies is that they take longer to cook. While cookies bake, the small amount of water in the dough forms bubbles as it boils out which contain the oils without it soaking back into the cookie. If you cook it too long, you end up cooking out the oil as well.