I have been smited by the gods of baking

[quidditchgrrl]

I wanted to make something for our staff this morning, to help with the mood for our "Read to Your Baby" festival (aka the parade of drugged families).

I had a recipe for Apple raisin spice muffins.  But when I added the liquid ingredients to the dry, the result was instant glutenation, like I'd overmixed by 300x.  Milk didn't help, and ew gross.

Rereading the recipe, I see that it calls for whole wheat pastry flour rather than regular.  Yeah, that might cause a little bit of toughness.  :\

*offers up mushroom and onion omelet to baking gods*

*tosses huge quantity of formerly edible food*

*prepares pre-packaged banana bread mix for co-workers*

Comments

[kp-mushu.livejournal.com]

Oy. I just watched an episode of "Good Eats" yesterday (OK, several episodes) and he talked about cake flour and the perils of over-mixing. Nothing like a visual cue to get the picture. :)

Sorry about your recipe mishap. I've been there with recipe "oopsies." Thankfully, my coworkers will eat just about *anything*, including my various baking mishaps. I once made a spongecake that flat-out (heh) wouldn't rise. It still disappeared in a jiffy.

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

As soon as I added the wet stuff, I was like 'whaaaa?' - now, it's sitting there with the milk on top of it. Grr!

But banana muffins are ready for munching, so all is not lost! :)

[blue-eye.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the time I tried to make rice pudding with instant rice.

Who knew?

Problem is, I tried to do it again with regular rice and I still fucked it up.

I handed the recipe to my father and he made it perfect.

Go figure.

[modestyrabnott.livejournal.com]

do you work in a library?

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yep! I'm a supervisor in Circulation (over the shelvers).