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

[Micheal]

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From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 2:37 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Helpful Hint From Horatius...


> 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?"
> -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
> Holt, 07/29/04
> 
Personaly I would sandwich them with a cream and then dunk them in Ganache.
  Da

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