Substitute for heavy cream in scones
aka_peggy
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Question about sol's cranberry cream scones
Comments (3)Stacy, I wouldn't change a thing. Use the same amount of cranberries as well as the same amount of sugar, and don't bother soaking the berries first. You know, you've reminded me that I still have several bags of fresh (well, they ain't so fresh anymore) cranberries buried somewhere in the freezer that need rescuing. Maybe, that's what I'll make today. Sol...See MoreHeavy Cream, Light Cream, Ice Cream
Comments (7)Since light cream can be up to 30% fat, I would use 2/3 cream and 1/3 milk. Actually, if I were making it myself, I would decrease the milk even more, since milk upsets me more than cream. I made strawberry ice cream Tuesday using a recipe that called for light cream, and I substituted all heavy cream. I took some to work because I can't eat all of it, and I thought DB didn't want it, but then after he had some yesterday, he decided it was very good. For myself, the most milk I would put it would be about 1/8 portion. I haven't noticed a problem with using all heavy cream, except that it did get very fluffy and I was afraid it would going to climb out of my ice cream machine, and so I ate little bits of it as it was going along. The worst thing that will happen is you will have excess volume, and you might want to make sure your ice cream maker will handle it. Everyone at work loved it. Lars...See MoreHeavy cream in bread recipe
Comments (3)One of the chief characteristics of rye flour in bread is a really sticky dough, even with the proper amount of hydration. When the dough is sticky, we tend to add more flour, and often add too much flour during kneading, trying to get the dough soft and smooth like white bread dough. In the world of bread, dense bread usually means too much flour has been added, especially if it was a stiff dough. But let's also look at what happens from fat AND when the fat is added, because that has a cause and effect as well. Since the cream is high in fat (and I assume there was other fat in the recipe), adding it early in the mix will coat the gluten so it develops in short strands. This is the same method we use when adding fat to flour when making pastry. Where the fat coats the flour, water can't penetrate it and the gluten develops in short strands. The fat "shortens" the gluten - hence, short crust pastry. When fat, and large amounts of fat, are added early in the mixing, you will get a close crumb and not as much loft because of the shortened gluten strands. Adding fat late in the gluten development (towards the end of the kneading), you will get an open crumb and higher loft. Adding fat early in the mixing is how you get a close grained crumb for sandwich bread (so fillings and spreads don't drip through it). Adding fat late is how you achieve an open crumb for toasting (so the butter and jam have lots of pockets to fill). You can make the same enriched bread recipe and add the fat early in one loaf, and add the fat after the gluten has developed in the second loaf, and you will see a completely different size, crumb, and loft - even using the same recipe. It's not about what's right or wrong, but what kind of grain we want the bread to achieve according to how it's going to be used. You listed the amounts of flour in the recipe, but did you add more flour during kneading due to the stickiness of the dough? As always, only add enough flour to make a well-hydrated soft dough, and always consider the amounts of flour in the recipe as a good (or bad) guess, and you have to go by that often elusive "feel" of the dough, not the amounts of flour noted in the recipe. Rye bread is an additional challenge because the dough will remain sticky, even with the correct hydration. TIP: Add the high-gluten white flour and VWG a little at a time to your liquid first, and give it a really good workout between additions. Mix it with a Danish Dough Whisk (the perfect tool for making batters and doughs), or a wooden spoon if you don't have a Danish Dough Whisk, in order to work and develop the gluten during mixing. This is the best time to develop the gluten in a recipe with a mix of high-gluten and low-gluten or gluten-free flour/s. It may take two hundred (or more) strokes to develop the gluten while mixing, and mixing is a critical step where people get a little lazy and often fail to do a good job. If your dough is a shaggy mess when you start kneading it, it wasn't mixed properly. Add the low-gluten flour last, after you've done a good job of mixing the high-gluten flour in the mixture. Add only enough flour to make a soft dough. You should only require a small amount of additional flour during kneading if you did a good job of developing the gluten during mixing. There are a few tips for kneading rye bread due to it's stickiness: -Save some (or all) of the fat/oil in the recipe and oil your hands during kneading so you don't add too much flour. -Have a bowl of water handy and dip your hands into water during kneading, instead of adding more bench flour. It's always better to err on the side of a wet dough than a dry, stiff dough, and the wet hands won't stick as much to the dough, and will add a little hydration. The wet hand method is also good for kneading dough for English Muffins. A wet dough is what makes the characteristic holey texture in well-made English Muffins (but I digress). -Knead the dough on a Silpat (or other brand of silicon mat) because you won't need any, or very little, bench flour. Dough doesn't stick to the mat. If you don't have a Silpat, spray your counter with PAM cooking spray instead of using bench flour. -You can also place the dough in a gallon freezer-style zip-lock bag (the freezer bags have thicker plastic than the storage bags - a good thing). Press out the air and zip it shut. Knead the dough through the bag. If you need to adjust the hydration of the dough, you can still open the bag and add flour. When you are done kneading, turn the bag inside out to get the dough out. This is one bag you will toss in the trash because cleaning it is nearly impossible. -Get a pair of kneading gloves (aka dough gloves). Alcohol does not form gluten when it's mixed with flour like water does. It's used in pastry recipes so a little more liquid can be added to make it easier to roll-out so it doesn't crack, without over-developing the gluten strands from adding more water to achieve the same moisture level, which results in over-developed gluten and tough pastry. I suspect it does the same thing in your pancake batter. Beer in bread is mainly for the flavor. If you add a low-alcohol or alcohol-free beer to a bread recipe, you will get a completely different flavor, interestingly enough. Is your beer bread recipe a quick bread or a yeast bread? Typically, they are a quick bread, and the alcohol would be beneficial because quick breads are another bread we don't want a lot of gluten-development. -Grainlady...See MoreSub for heavy whipping cream
Comments (4)I just made pumpkin custard last week but used the Libby's website recipe. It called for sugar and evaporated milk. If you've got a recipe to try, I don't see why you couldn't use regular milk with some instant dry milk added to give it more heft. After all, regular custard is often made with plain milk. I just wouldn't use fat free milk. Or you could add an extra egg. No matter what you end up doing, I'd be sure to bake in a water bath and no higher than 325 degrees. That way the mixture wouldn't curdle. I found two recipes that were identical but one called for half & half and baking in a casserole at 350 without a water bath. The Libby's recipe called for baking at 300 with a water bath. I used to make plain egg custard all the time years ago and knew I should use a water bath, so that's what I did. The low & slow method resulted in perfectly done and beautifully creamy pumpkin custard....See Moreritaotay
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