Better living through baking.
May. 31st, 2012 10:24 pmI like to say baking is chemistry and cooking is alchemy, but there are times a bit of one in the other works out nicely.
My office is a nut-free workspace, so if I want to bake something that calls for nuts, I have to find a workaround or replacement. I've had a lot of luck with dried fruit, so tonight when I started on this one blueberry-nut loaf, I looked at my stash to see what I had to substitute, and ended up coming out with something completely different than just swapping stuff one-for-one. Instead of one cup nuts and one half-cup blueberries, it was one half-cup blueberries, one half-cup dried coconut, and one half-cup dried mango, plus two teaspoons of lime juice in the wet batter, and about a quarter teaspoon each of ginger and allspice added into the flour mix.
And by golly, is it ever wonderful.
My office is a nut-free workspace, so if I want to bake something that calls for nuts, I have to find a workaround or replacement. I've had a lot of luck with dried fruit, so tonight when I started on this one blueberry-nut loaf, I looked at my stash to see what I had to substitute, and ended up coming out with something completely different than just swapping stuff one-for-one. Instead of one cup nuts and one half-cup blueberries, it was one half-cup blueberries, one half-cup dried coconut, and one half-cup dried mango, plus two teaspoons of lime juice in the wet batter, and about a quarter teaspoon each of ginger and allspice added into the flour mix.
And by golly, is it ever wonderful.
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