[Sca-cooks] OOP Flavored Short Bread
S CLEMENGER
sclemenger at msn.com
Fri Nov 9 18:05:45 PST 2007
And it's orange...
--Maire, another "saffron believer"....mmmm...I have butter and sugar and flour and TWO packages of saffron....mmmm....cookies this weekend <g>
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura C. Minnick<mailto:lcm at jeffnet.org>
To: Cooks within the SCA<mailto:sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP Flavored Short Bread
At 08:08 AM 11/9/2007, you wrote:
>I would like to add saffron to the short bread but I am wondering
>how to incorporate it, since saffron needs to bloom in hot liquid.
>But there is no liquid, hot or otherwise, in short bread. I've
>thought about blooming it in a very small amount of hot water and
>adding it in, or else melting a little bit of the butter and adding
>it that way. But I don't know what these methods might do to the
>finished product and I don't want to waste my expensive saffron if I
>don't need to.
I have had reasonably good success by grinding the saffron finely
with another ingredient- usually either salt or sugar. Not quite the
same as putting it in hot liquid, but does diffuse the flavor a bit
better. Of course, I really like saffron, and tend to use a fair
amount, unlike those who believe that it is a scribal error. :-D
'Lainie
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