Recipes NOT to be repeated!!

pigpen

Ampersand.. I tried 4 different carrot cake recipes before I found an edible one.. and that took an extra half hour to cook.. HERE IT is the only one that worked for me..

pigpen

Can I add Pumpkin soup to my inedible list??? Any superb ideas how to make it edible.. other than slice off my taste buds!!!

MATH

One of my favourite cookery books is the Dairy Book (I'm on my second copy in 15 years) but there is one recipe in there which is absolutely vile. Leicester Cheese Pudding, think a savoury bread and butter pudding where the rounds are spread with peanut butter and grated cheese. Once it was cooked it looked as if someone had thrown up and left it to dry in the sun :eek:- it tasted even worse than it looked:eek::eek::eek::rotfl:

I'm fed up with having to rewrite celebrity chef and tv tie-in recipes to make them affordable/edible. I now stick to my Dairy Book (minus that one recipe), my 1970's Farmhouse Kitchen Cookery Cards, the New World Gas Cooker Cook Book and St Delia (of course) LOL

ampersand

pigpen wrote: »

Can I add Pumpkin soup to my inedible list??? Any superb ideas how to make it edible.. other than slice off my taste bubs!!!

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Thankyou so much pigpen - it's A's fave cakie, hence multi-attempts.
It so happens that the Pumpkin soup in freezer in France is superb. May need a day or two, but will post it here.
Thanks again - roll on 28 décembre.
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Several hours on, but have come across this, a likely explanation for the unJamieO Club:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/2004/05/13/two_nuts_chocola.php
....and don't think the Green Tomato Cake is one to repeat either(post elsewhere). Should have suspected something when one reviewer said it was as good as her Carrot Cake....but when I do not demur, it's not quite the same thing.
Oh dear.

Blairweech

Not so much a failed recipe as a cooking disaster...

Had to use some filo pastry in a recipe, so I got a frozen block of it. When I came to use it hadn't thawed so I thought 'I'll just run it under some running water to defrost it, it works with chicken and milk'

No, it completely ruined it and went straight in the bin

I have 'Three and Four Ingredient Recipes', and there is a recipe in there for meatballs in tomato sauce which you cook in the oven (you put the meatballs in raw, pour on the tomato sauce, then put in oven). I've tried it about 3 times and it never cooks, the meatballs just fall apart. Last time I did it, I just mixed the mince in with the sauce, hoping to make spag bol...it turned out like gruel :eek:

Softstuff

pigpen wrote: »

Can I add Pumpkin soup to my inedible list??? Any superb ideas how to make it edible.. other than slice off my taste buds!!!

I use half a pumpkin, a chicken stock cube, an onion, a carrot, a small sweet potato and a handful of dried red lentils. Add salt, pepper and a pinch of nutmeg, boil the whole lot to hell, blend it, and it's all good.

sniperpenguin

I remember years ago I was trying to be adventurous in the kitchen and put nutmeg in Macaroni cheese. It was like eating perfume .

thats odd, ive been watching "Bones" on Sky and that is exactly what she made!! Athough her's was "Fresh ground nutmeg" so maybe you were just cheating

vfairbrass

SUESMITH wrote: »

mary berry is fantastic as is margurite pattern. i have an old very tatty sainsburys book of home baking

I have to agree about Mary Berry and Sainsbury's Home Baking. I've never had a failure from either - and the recipes are so straightforward. I tend not to even consider making anything with long lists of ingredients. I find those sort of recipes very off-putting.
I did once make a gingerbread recipe and when I reached into my storecupboard for the brown sugar (I decant everything into storage jars) I accidentally picked up the garam marsala, cheerfully measured in 6 ozs and carried on. The final result was inedible.

ampersand

pigpen wrote: »

Ampersand.. I tried 4 different carrot cake recipes before I found an edible one.. and that took an extra half hour to cook.. HERE IT is the only one that worked for me..

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I notice this a lot and see a number of others speak of it.
The Don't Do It temptation is to up the oven temperature too drastically.
The cake I finally offered yesterday was a choc pavlova/genoese hybrid sort of thing - cooking time for the sponges, 30 mins.
How about 80 mins?
And it is superb(blush, blush) - recipient insisted I stay and try a slice.
Soft, well-risen, light and airy - I find huge variations, not just 5-10 mins, but double time and more!
Mains Gas oven - ?
Those little Sainsbury's 99p books I began buying years ago, when I lived elsewhere.
Always worth collecting still. Preserves and Pickles is another goodie.

Greenqueen_2

This is a taste I dont advise! With the family round one afternoon, I went to brew up. Some wanted coffee and some wanted tea. After filling the teapot and leaving it to brew I put coffee powder in the mugs. Unfortunately I then absentmindedly filled them from the teapot instead of the kettle. YUK!