the takeaway secret

xangeleyes

I haven't read everything on here - 62 pages is a lot lol.
This book sounds great, is it for healthy eating??
If so, can I pinch what you wrote please to put on a dieting website? I've been on there putting on recipes for people, but this sounds good esspecially as we all love our food. Would that be ok OP??
diethell

HannahIOW

Ok just attempted my second recipe ever from this book (last time was the cookies), the banana muffins, and I've ruined them as well!! Don't know if I can blame our new electric oven or not. They don't look anything like muffins, just like cupcakes, and are quite brown but not burnt, if i took them out any earlier they'd have been too soggy.
Made the first few in silicone cases, they rose up all weirdly.. then the rest in paper cases but they aren't much better. Any ideas? They do taste good though! I think so anyway, OH isn't too keen.

wishicouldaffordit

HannahIOW wrote: »

Ok just attempted my second recipe ever from this book (last time was the cookies), the banana muffins, and I've ruined them as well!! Don't know if I can blame our new electric oven or not. They don't look anything like muffins, just like cupcakes, and are quite brown but not burnt, if i took them out any earlier they'd have been too soggy.
Made the first few in silicone cases, they rose up all weirdly.. then the rest in paper cases but they aren't much better. Any ideas? They do taste good though! I think so anyway, OH isn't too keen.

I would ditch the silicone, nothing I cook in them works for me in my gas cooker. I made the banana muffins in normal paper cases, smaller than muffin and they came out fine.

Mind you my friend with a fan oven swears by the silicone bakeware and has had great results with it.

gemgold

hi everyone just wondering if someone could pm me the kfc one as i have been waiting over a week for the book now.
thanks

sb44

HannahIOW wrote: »

Ok just attempted my second recipe ever from this book (last time was the cookies), the banana muffins, and I've ruined them as well!! Don't know if I can blame our new electric oven or not. They don't look anything like muffins, just like cupcakes, and are quite brown but not burnt, if i took them out any earlier they'd have been too soggy.
Made the first few in silicone cases, they rose up all weirdly.. then the rest in paper cases but they aren't much better. Any ideas? They do taste good though! I think so anyway, OH isn't too keen.

How did you mix the ingredients?

The secret to well risen muffins is not to mix the ingredients too much, mix the dry, mix the wet and then combine but only stir about 20 times if that, you need to have lumps in there. Don't use a mixer or anything like that.

Take a look at the directions in the Peanut Butter Muffin recipe here.

http://www.cherrytreepublications.co.uk/articles/2009/03/13/peanut-butter-muffins

furndire

Try a bit of celery salt in your chicken recipes - I think that is the missing flavour.

Raksha

sb44 wrote: »

How did you mix the ingredients?

The secret to well risen muffins is not to mix the ingredients too much, mix the dry, mix the wet and then combine but only stir about 20 times if that, you need to have lumps in there. Don't use a mixer or anything like that.

Take a look at the directions in the Peanut Butter Muffin recipe here.

http://www.cherrytreepublications.co.uk/articles/2009/03/13/peanut-butter-muffins

Also, if you don't cook from scratch a lot, your SR Flour may be 'stale' - the raising agents loose their power. I prefer to use plain flour and add baking powder or Cream of tartar and Bicarb

HannahIOW

Tbh I blame the book partly - it said stir well, not fold in or anything like that. So I stirred it very well lol.

I used plain flour, baking soda and baking powder as the recipe said. (well, bicarbonate of soda, that's all I could find - assumed it was the english equivalent to 'baking soda').

xangeleyes

Is this book for healthy eating?? Or just about saving money and making it yourself??

flea72

Rachel_murray wrote: »

Is this book for healthy eating?? Or just about saving money and making it yourself??

both i suppose

in that you can use as cheap as ingredients as you want to make the items, and you can also control the content - ie you dont have to fry the KFC, you can just oven bake it (ok the texture and taste is slightly different, but not so bad that you wont eat it), or you can use light cheese slices, rather than FF ones, lean steak mince rather than scrapings, etc.

F