Failed Recipes- learn from my mistakes!
Dec. 30th, 2009 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foolish_m0rtalProving that I am not the most adept cook ever, a look at the year's failed recipes that never made it to my journal:
Dango, Japanese dumplings with a soy dipping sauce. I used Indian rice flour instead of Japanese, and so the cooking time, texture, and taste were all completely wrong.
Chocolate souffle: I was going to christen my new ramekins by making something new. They were great, all puffy and looking legitimate...and then I took them out of the oven and they fell in and cracked and tasted weird.
I have some idea of what I did, I think. I don't like really sweet things, so I used considerably less sugar than the recipe called for, which not only made the cake taste bland, it also messed up the texture. I was also a bit paranoid about baking it because of the eggs in there, so I overbaked it, which made it too dry. This is a recipe I'm willing to try again. Might even make one of those chocolate volcano things, you know- the cakes with the molten chocolate in the center. Seems fairly easy from a theoretical standpoint. (famous last words)
Dango, Japanese dumplings with a soy dipping sauce. I used Indian rice flour instead of Japanese, and so the cooking time, texture, and taste were all completely wrong.
Chocolate souffle: I was going to christen my new ramekins by making something new. They were great, all puffy and looking legitimate...and then I took them out of the oven and they fell in and cracked and tasted weird.
I have some idea of what I did, I think. I don't like really sweet things, so I used considerably less sugar than the recipe called for, which not only made the cake taste bland, it also messed up the texture. I was also a bit paranoid about baking it because of the eggs in there, so I overbaked it, which made it too dry. This is a recipe I'm willing to try again. Might even make one of those chocolate volcano things, you know- the cakes with the molten chocolate in the center. Seems fairly easy from a theoretical standpoint. (famous last words)
