Last thing you baked?

[SnowFlakey]

I was in need of a comfort cake so i made a Dates Cake. This is my Mom`s recipe and is at least 50 years old.

DATES CAKE
3 eggs
¼ cup white sugar
1 cup corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla
½ cup mazola oil
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 cups chopped dates

Mix all these ingredients
together. And then add :

1 ½ cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch salt


Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add dry ingredients to the above mixture and mix until well blended. Line 9 x 13 inch pan with parchment paper and bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown.

[walkonby]

My chicken stew and pot pie technique is

- use chicken thighs because they don't dry out
- cut all the fat (and skin if skin on) off the thighs and fry it up on medium heat until the fat is rendered and the fat/skin is brown, crisp and puffed like pork rinds. Throw out the solid bits and keep the liquid fat
- make the sauce with Better than Bouillon Chicken Base (made from chicken meat and juice) and Bisto Chicken gravy powder (lightly salted and seasoned modified (non-lumping) cornstarch), and (water or 1% milk or whatever kind of milk you have or cream if you're that type) and the chicken fat

I know keeping the chicken fat sounds bad, but it gives a load of flavour you just can't get with chemicals. In the good old days, people just used salt for the bouillon and flour for the bisto, but the chicken fat makes it.

omg! @lecale were you in my kitchen this morning?? That is what I used. 8 chicken thighs fried up in a cast iron pan, all the skin crisped up beautifully, but I just chopped all the meat and skin and layered the whole pile of it that into the casserole pan. Yes next time I will probably make my own white sauce with those delicious flavours from the fat. thanks!! hey and when DD finished her mid term today she had a bowl and said it was DELICIOUS!! ( obviously she eats canned soups more than us )
I am happy it will not get wasted anyways.

[bluerose]

Melt 2 TBLS butter and wisk in a couple TBLS flour add some milk about 1/4 cup (its called a roux) then add about 2 cups chicken or turkey broth and that is your base for a pot pie.I have been doing this for years it may not be as thick as thick can be lol. I actually baught that prime fully cooked turkey (had a coupon) and made my pies with that and the sauce with a cream of mushroom soup there okay (good) but nothing like "real"homemade topped with bisquits.
P.S. never have I put cheese on my pot pies.

[bluerose]

made a Apple Cinnamon Loaf it was so yummy.

[Momof3girlies]

Going to be baking these :

http://thefarmersbetterhalf.blogspot....html?spref=pi

using my bread maker for the dough:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/22451/a...arch%20results


and maybe these to go with the lasagne (freezer meals I'm doing up):

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/18018/p...arch%20results

[beachdown]

A type of fish

[Silk]

Melt 2 TBLS butter and wisk in a couple TBLS flour add some milk about 1/4 cup (its called a roux) then add about 2 cups chicken or turkey broth and that is your base for a pot pie.I have been doing this for years it may not be as thick as thick can be lol. I actually baught that prime fully cooked turkey (had a coupon) and made my pies with that and the sauce with a cream of mushroom soup there okay (good) but nothing like "real"homemade topped with bisquits.
P.S. never have I put cheese on my pot pies.

Thanks for sharing! This sounds good - I want to try a veggie version. But is this for the sauce/gravy of a pot pie? Sounds too liquidy to be the crust.

Silk

[bluerose]

That's the sauce silk for the crust I use a home made tea biscuit but you can use pie crust whatever you choose.

[lecale]

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[heartgirl99]

it was a rainy afternoon. great day for baking

[Angela273]

I do nearly all of my baking with our 3yr old son helping me. We baked 15 banana chocolate chip muffins earlier in the week. Yesterday we made a double batch of carrot muffins, almost 3 dozen. I make them a bit heslthier by using 1/2 whole wheat flour, replacing 1/2 the oil with unsweetened apple sauce, and adding soaked raisins.

[Momof3girlies]

@Angela273 , your carrot muffins sound wonderful! would you mind posting the recipe ?

[walkonby]

Made 2 homemade deep dish 12" double crust steak meat pies. ( Dr. Oetker was there providing me with boxed fool proof crusts! ) Also roasted a small whole chicken since the oven was already on.

[Silk]

That's the sauce silk for the crust I use a home made tea biscuit but you can use pie crust whatever you choose.

Thanks, bluerose. I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance - and find an easy crust or biscuit recipe. Love pot pies but the veggies ones I've bought are so pricey!

Silk

[SnowFlakey]

Yesterday i baked an apple pie that i made a few weeks ago and froze. Turned out great!