Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!

[brazen20au]

i double or triple the sherry and the soy 

[Amanda]

Lemon Cupcakes - September recipe in calendar.
Please note that these require lemon butter - not mentioned in the list of ingredients.

Ooops!
Note to self - read more carefully.

[cookie1]

Thanks for that Amanda. A good point to know before hand.

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks Amanda. Good point. I had thought that when I looked at the recipe the other day. 

[ThermyLover]

That was a great review of the Strawberry tart Amanda - even though the recipe was very hard to work through, you stuck at it.  I didn't buy the calendar for this very reason, the recipe books etc suck! This is what I find most disappointing with my purchase of the Thermomixer - the recipe books, not the machine itself.

I wholeheartedly AGREE!!! Most of the recipes suck and are too watery or are too flavourless. But the upside is that I'm learning a lot more about which herbs and spices can improve certain dishes! I LOVE my TM & really would love it if Women's Weekly got on board and did a book!

[cookie1]

Welcome to the forum Ange.

[Thermomixer]

Welcome Ange - think I have sorted out your post above - may have made it worse?

[sarah.j]

I don't like custard made with flour (as per the TM everyday cookbook). I use cornflour instead. The flour is very overpowering in flavour.

Custard/Creme Patissere...When I do a demo I use zest 1 lemon with 25g cornflour, mix for 20secs sp 9. Then add 550g milk, 2 eggs, 50g sugar. Then cook for 6min, 90deg, sp 4. It pours out as a beautiful custard everytime.
Sugar is a wet product & cornflour is dry so you should get a finer result if you swap the two over like this. Also instead of lemon you can use a whole vanilla bean, or orange zest etc.

[judydawn]

Thanks Sarah, will try that method next time.

[sarah.j]

Thank goodness you responded, I had no idea if I had put this in the right spot! Also I read somewhere that you fell on your sword to taste the Midori recipe for us all..Goodwork, as soon as I find (hiccup ) my banana daiquiri recipe that will be posted for the 'good of all' also.

[CreamPuff63]

SJ I find the EDC is quite a "fixed" product,  is yours of pouring consistency?

[judydawn]

Look forward to your banana daiquiri recipe sarahJ - something different.

[containergirl]

What great info there is here. 

I think the index needs improved cross referencing of ingredients. 

For instance a friend had made rhubarb with apple and strawberries and it was so divine I scurried home to look up the recipe.  There was nothing under rhubarb, so I looked in fruit and desserts still nothing....why didn't I think to look under stewed!   

I've found this has been a problem with the listing of a few recipes. 

I've since scurried to the gardening books to discover that we cant grow rhubarb up here in Townsville.....it was like a weed in the back yard in Melbourne when I was a kid.

[judydawn]

Are you talking about the forum recipes or the EDC Containergirl?  I certainly have trouble finding things in the EDC so have made a list of recipes I need on the blank page at the end of the book as it is easier to browse down that list than the index.

[cookie1]

I find the EDC hard to locate recipes in, even after 18 months. I now have those post-its that stick out, in mine for favourite things. They are rather dog eared but it makes finding things easier.