Night,
and an epic one (night of the 27th, actually), all of which will be
excluded from this post except for the Baking of the Cabbage Breadloaf
subsaga, wherein an intrepid nonbaker attempts to construct from
scratch (well, there was one bottle with some premixed spice) an
unusual bready concoction from an untested recipe in a baker's notebook
(which it turns out even she doesn't rigidly follow) under
circumstances of stress, utter inexperience in baking, a tight
timeline, and other complicating issues.
Original recipe (for the full effect, imagine you are extracting this
arcana surreptitiously from some powerful magician's spellbook while
she's away):
Cabbage Muffins - Yes, Cabbage!!
Serve this with pork chops and baked potatoes.
[or more likely for me, some lentil soup and cheddar cheese!]
SERVES 12
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons celery seeds
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 cups cabbage, grated
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons onion flakes
6 tablespoons butter, melted
Directions
Combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, onion flakes and celery seed
thoroughly. Add the grated cabbage and stir into the dry ingredients.
Whisk the eggs, milk and melted butter together.
Add to dry ingredients and stir quickly.
Spoon into greased muffin pans and bake in preheated oven until done.
Bake at 400 F for 20 minutes.
Total ingredients on-hand: salt and eggs. Various quirks interfered
with or enhanced some ingredients, here reordered by steps. Distrust
of the instructions lead to some other changes as well.
| Codex | Actual | Notes |
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| Combine in large bowl (6+ cups capacity) |
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| 1 3/4 cups flour | whole wheat flour |
yum, whole wheat |
| 2 teaspoons celery seeds | as written |
a number of escapees are still at large in my kitchen |
| 1 tablespoon baking powder | as written |
which contains aluminum... why? |
| 1 teaspoon salt | as written | |
| 2 teaspoons onion flakes |
white/green onion
powder with parsley |
Onion flakes are apparently crafted by dwarves in underground
gardens fertilized with unobtainium, so a substitute, with
a bias towards green onions, was found.
|
| 1 tablespoon sugar | Sugar in the Raw |
these off-white crystals even look sexy |
| Fill a container (2+ cups capacity) |
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| 2 cups cabbage, grated | as written |
almost accidentally replaced by bok choi,
oh woe would have been me |
| 1 foot of green
onion green, minced |
my idea |
| Combine in a bowl (2+ cups capacity) |
|---|
| 6 tablespoons butter, melted | as written |
microwaves for the win! |
| 2 eggs | as written |
had to pour off a bit from two huge eggs |
| 3/4 cup milk | as written | normal whole milk |
Then combine everything, mixing dry ingredients and cabbage first
(which bowl to target is left as an exercise for the reader),
spoon into a cooking-spray-coated all-edge brownie pan
(with the zigzagging channel - the mixture doesn't quite reach the
ends) and cook 4 minutes longer than the recipe recommends (so, for 24
minutes, possibly more if you like well done bread). Then combine
slices of the result with Jarlsberg cheese - yum!
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