[Sca-cooks] Helpful Hint From Horatius...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Hullo, the list!

In our Common Sense Earned The Hard Way department, I thought I'd 
relate this little snippet which may conceivably come in handy to 
some of you.

I found myself making a half-batch of the Markham sweet cream wafers 
this morning, and had noted the previous time I made a batch that I 
was having trouble getting them consistently the same size, and was 
wasting a lot of batter due to spillage out of the edges of the iron, 
which for me is one of the standard old-fashioned clamshell type 
pizzelle irons that you heat on the stovetop. It's exactly five 
inches across.

Anyway, I found that a level scoop from a #40 sorbet-type scoop 
(which has a .8 fluid ounce capacity and one of those thumb-trigger 
thingies that pushes the contents out) was the perfect tool for 
exactly filling the wafer iron without overflow or empty space, so 
that means more actual wafers from your recipe.

Of course, your iron may be different from mine, but I guess the 
essential lesson is to find the right size spoon or scoop so you 
don't waste a lot of batter. I found (not having known this 
previously) that the adaptation I did of the Markham recipe (which I 
believe is in the Florithingy) makes exactly four dozen wafers with a 
five-inch iron and a #40 scoop.

Hmmmm. To sandwich them with chocolate ganache or not to sandwich 
them. That is the question...

Adamantius
-- 




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
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