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Friday 14th January 2011
Delicious Cookies

This is a nice simple recipe for baking cookies easily done in less than half an hour.

Ingredients

350g Plain Flour
1 Teaspoon of Bicarbonate Soda
1 Teaspoon of Salt
235g Butter
200g Caster Sugar
180g Brown Sugar (crumbled,soft)
1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract
2 Eggs
375g Chocolate
Optional - 2 Teaspoons of Golden Syrup

Method

Preheat the oven to 190c
Place chocolate in a plastic bag and place on a tea towel on top of something sturdy. Fold over the tea towel to avoid mess and beat chocolate until no large chunks remain (no bigger than a 2 cm cube)
In a Mixing Bowl, combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt
In another bowl, add the butter, caster sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract. Then mix until creamy
Beat the eggs in to the bowl with sugar in, and gradually mix in the flour mixture from the other bowl. Add the chocolate (and golden syrup) mixing throughly
When mixed throughly, get a baking tray and grease it or use greaseproof paper, thensimply take a heaped tablespoon of the dough and place on the baking tray (don't flatten the mix), ensuring the dough is widely spread apart from each other
Bake for 10 - 12 minutes
And enjoy

Posted on January 14th 2011 at 08:48am
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Thursday 13th January 2011
Screen Grabs - Cryogenic Ice Cream

Cryogenic Ice Cream

If anybody was watching Horizon on the telly a few nights ago you may have seen a brief but interesting scene involving the preparation of ice cream with a little liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen is poured into an artisan mixer with what seems to be a bog standard ice cream mixture and in seconds a yummy looking ice cream is produced.

Instead of using the ice cream making attachment to cool the ingredients slowly and the mixer to introduce air, liquid nitrogen at -196°C is added and almost instantly cools the mixture and fills it with air, the mixer just keeps the ingredients moving so that it all cools evenly and not into a load of solid lumps.

I can remember the teacher showing us how it made flowers and rubbers brittle years ago at school but we never got any ice cream...

I don’t recommend trying this at home, its cold stuff and will give you a nasty freezer burn if not handled correctly or perhaps worse (http://bit.ly/2KgWT).

Screen Grabs documents some of the more interesting appearances of well known catering and kitchen equipment on screen.

Posted on January 13th 2011 at 11:20am
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Labels: artisan, screen grabs