The playdough recipe

[marmee]

On to making my 4th batch of playdough (playgroup-style meeting tomorrow)  - does the recipe in the Everyday cookbook need tweaking?

I am adding food colouring in at step one (saves kneading in the colour at the end by hand) and finding that the oil is way too much and 280g flour works best.

Maybe my scales are out?  I used 20ml oil perfectly - 20g was too much   

[Thermomixer]

Thanks marmee - seems it does need tweaking - http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=699.msg5485#msg5485

Has anybody told Tenina ?

[marmee]

Thanks Thermomixer. I have added my "tweak" to the thread you sent me to. 

I have no idea how to tell tenina???

[Thermomixer]

Tenina is our saviour at TMX OZ - she is the food tester and recipe book co-ordinator, and she responds to our suggestions.

Her email address is tenina@thermomix.com.au

[marmee]

Thanks = will email her.

[mama_bel]

As an aside, do you buy plain white flour from the supermarket to make playdough?

[faffa_70]

I just buy homebrand plain flour from the supermarket to make playdough

[faffa_70]

Thermomix Playdough

Ingredients:
250g Water
100g Cooking Salt
1 Tablespoon Cream of Tartar
280g Plain Flour
15ml Cooking Oil
Food Colouring or Powder Paints (to colour)

Preparation:

Put the water, salt, cream of tartar and food colour into  . Heat for 5 minutes at 60o on speed 3.

After cooking, add flour and mix for 40 seconds or until mixture is combined and thick.

Set dial to closed lid position.

Add oil and knead for 1 minute on 

Tips/Hints:

If you wish to make several different colours from the one batch, leave out the food colour in step 1. Then when dough is made, divide dough into balls and add a different colour to each ball. Knead the colour through the dough.  Store each colour in a separate airtight container to keep dough from hardening.

Encourage your children to be creative and make play dough models, characters, animals etc.

I have written this recipe as I now make it, which is the "tried and tested forum recipe"!!  Thanks everyone for your input.

[Thermomixer]

Ta, have you sent it to Tenina?

[faffa_70]

Hmmm no as I thought someone else had earlier. I just changed my book when we had a confirmed better tested recipe. If no one has sent it in I will do so. Let me know 

[Gralke]

Thanks Kathryn for this recipe. I used it as a base for the advents candle and it worked out very well and, in my opinion, was quite pretty.

[judydawn]

Nice to see you found a use for playdough at your age Barbara    Yes, it does look nice indeed.

[faffa_70]

Beautiful Barbara! What a brilliant idea, so easy for decorating as everything would be able to be pushed into the dough and would stay put. 

[Gralke]

Thanks Judy
Kathryn - that was actually the beauty of it, for nearly six week it just "stayed put"

[Thermomixer]

Great idea Gralke - really lateral thinking !!