Must share this with you....
My video-kitchen classes are such fun and so popular, ‘cause of the adventure and unexpected happenings....for instance...recently at a class to make herb-ed syrups and try everyone’s "ready to be used" extracts and sugars and vinegar ‘n oils.....
All was great with 3 kitchens reporting in and each making several flavors of syrups...different and different non-sugars being tried....stove-top made, oven made and microwave made....
The stove-top ones were super easy and worked well...even got a ‘pumpkin pie ground spice blend’ flavor that was very good in tea and coffee and warmed milk.....recent feedback is that it is also great in rice pudding instead of plain sugars....
The oven method we (3 kitchens and 6 adults and 8 kids) could not make work well....never could get the temp right or a strong flavor....2 kitchens took their mixtures from oven and sealed in glass jars and let them sit in fridge for several days, then warmed up to room temp and tried in tea, and they were acceptable yet sugary....
Now the microwave...wooooo!!! Was this a roaring hoot.....some cooked sugar too long and it sugared...some got too brown...some cooked the herbs to nothing....and one absolutely fried a microwaveable container and its contents into one smallpuddle...melted everything....and all 3 kitchens had black smoke billowing out the windows at one time or another......the kids loved it!
Adults making mistakes...always gives kids hope and admiration for their designated adults....they saw that mistakes are not the end of the world...just for a dish of herbed sugar.
We never could get it right...right power or time...we do know you have to go slow and low and stir...maybe someone out there in microwave land knows more about melting sugar and we can try it another time...
Oh, yes...the sampling of extracts was put off til next time...everyone was too tired after all the cleaning up from the adventure....
Wonder what the kids and I can come up with next time......
Donna D-
My video-kitchen classes are such fun and so popular, ‘cause of the adventure and unexpected happenings....for instance...recently at a class to make herb-ed syrups and try everyone’s "ready to be used" extracts and sugars and vinegar ‘n oils.....
All was great with 3 kitchens reporting in and each making several flavors of syrups...different and different non-sugars being tried....stove-top made, oven made and microwave made....
The stove-top ones were super easy and worked well...even got a ‘pumpkin pie ground spice blend’ flavor that was very good in tea and coffee and warmed milk.....recent feedback is that it is also great in rice pudding instead of plain sugars....
The oven method we (3 kitchens and 6 adults and 8 kids) could not make work well....never could get the temp right or a strong flavor....2 kitchens took their mixtures from oven and sealed in glass jars and let them sit in fridge for several days, then warmed up to room temp and tried in tea, and they were acceptable yet sugary....
Now the microwave...wooooo!!! Was this a roaring hoot.....some cooked sugar too long and it sugared...some got too brown...some cooked the herbs to nothing....and one absolutely fried a microwaveable container and its contents into one smallpuddle...melted everything....and all 3 kitchens had black smoke billowing out the windows at one time or another......the kids loved it!
Adults making mistakes...always gives kids hope and admiration for their designated adults....they saw that mistakes are not the end of the world...just for a dish of herbed sugar.
We never could get it right...right power or time...we do know you have to go slow and low and stir...maybe someone out there in microwave land knows more about melting sugar and we can try it another time...
Oh, yes...the sampling of extracts was put off til next time...everyone was too tired after all the cleaning up from the adventure....
Wonder what the kids and I can come up with next time......
Donna D-
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