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<font color=blue>Aww yes. The dreaded "mouse hand"
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- Jun 11, 2006
As promised over in the Airmiles thread here's what is the first Epic Fail post (come on gang, I can't be the only one who has experienced a kitchen disaster!)
During a wonderful crowd-sourcing discussion over what to do with my very limited diet @isabellea suggested i could make meringues and Google search turned up a recipe that i thought would work, here's what i was expecting to happen juxtaposed with what ACTUALLY transpired, enjoy!
First here's the ingredients i had to work with: Blueberry Syrup that i made the day before, strained to get rid of the seeds and skin, a carton of egg whites (only so many things i can make with the gazillion yolks i was creating!) and "liquid" glucose that is so thick the only way you can measure it is by weight.
Here's what I set out to make:
"Sugar Free Meringue Cookies, That Are Identical to a Normal One"
but i wanted them to be more like THESE (which is why i made the blueberry syrup first, that was only to get swirled in just before baking)
"Blueberry Swirl Meringue Cookies"
The recipe called for a syrup that i can't have BUT it popped up during my search for the glucose 6 months ago (gawd it seems like a decade ago!) and it has the same consistency and works the same way with the same sweetening level, score!
First step is to heat the egg whites and syrup over some boiling water and beat the heck out of it until it changes colour and thickens up to look like this:
OK, so far so good, here's mine, colour is slightly different because the glucose is more yellowy so that's ok.
Next step is to pour it into the stand mixer and beat the hell out of it with the whisk attachment until it forms peaks and looks like this
and here's where the wheels fell off, i gave up after almost 20 minutes, constantly checking and poking ,eventually giggling because i was a sticky mess by this point and needing to lick off my fingers and numerous spoons (uhm yes please, gooey sweetness almost candy-like that i've not had since Disney!) Notice it hasn't gotten any volume and is just running back into the bowl. By this point poor Max was getting hot and since i need him for the constant bread making, i turned him off and pulled the bowl out.
Next step was SUPPOSED to involve either piping them onto a baking sheet or spooning nice, neat dollops, I had already decided i wasn't getting my piping bags out and had a few spoons handy.
Supposed to look like this
The blueberry recipe showed swirling the syrup onto the prepared, neat little pile to look like this
Uhm, yeah, not happening, notice how runny my stuff was?!?! what my PUDDLES looked like with the syrup swirled in because I made it dammit and it created it's OWN mess plus "wasted" 1/2 bag of precious blueberries!
HUH apparently i can only add 10 pictures! continuing below, because we're almost done
During a wonderful crowd-sourcing discussion over what to do with my very limited diet @isabellea suggested i could make meringues and Google search turned up a recipe that i thought would work, here's what i was expecting to happen juxtaposed with what ACTUALLY transpired, enjoy!
First here's the ingredients i had to work with: Blueberry Syrup that i made the day before, strained to get rid of the seeds and skin, a carton of egg whites (only so many things i can make with the gazillion yolks i was creating!) and "liquid" glucose that is so thick the only way you can measure it is by weight.
Here's what I set out to make:
"Sugar Free Meringue Cookies, That Are Identical to a Normal One"
but i wanted them to be more like THESE (which is why i made the blueberry syrup first, that was only to get swirled in just before baking)
"Blueberry Swirl Meringue Cookies"
The recipe called for a syrup that i can't have BUT it popped up during my search for the glucose 6 months ago (gawd it seems like a decade ago!) and it has the same consistency and works the same way with the same sweetening level, score!
First step is to heat the egg whites and syrup over some boiling water and beat the heck out of it until it changes colour and thickens up to look like this:
OK, so far so good, here's mine, colour is slightly different because the glucose is more yellowy so that's ok.
Next step is to pour it into the stand mixer and beat the hell out of it with the whisk attachment until it forms peaks and looks like this
and here's where the wheels fell off, i gave up after almost 20 minutes, constantly checking and poking ,eventually giggling because i was a sticky mess by this point and needing to lick off my fingers and numerous spoons (uhm yes please, gooey sweetness almost candy-like that i've not had since Disney!) Notice it hasn't gotten any volume and is just running back into the bowl. By this point poor Max was getting hot and since i need him for the constant bread making, i turned him off and pulled the bowl out.
Next step was SUPPOSED to involve either piping them onto a baking sheet or spooning nice, neat dollops, I had already decided i wasn't getting my piping bags out and had a few spoons handy.
Supposed to look like this
The blueberry recipe showed swirling the syrup onto the prepared, neat little pile to look like this
Uhm, yeah, not happening, notice how runny my stuff was?!?! what my PUDDLES looked like with the syrup swirled in because I made it dammit and it created it's OWN mess plus "wasted" 1/2 bag of precious blueberries!
HUH apparently i can only add 10 pictures! continuing below, because we're almost done