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Thu, 09/04/2025 – 05:03
one other one from ‘the “who kidnapped Rob?” cookbook.’
Tailored from Sarah Owens. I modified the recipe to entire wheat (principally as a result of I wished to make use of up a few of what I’ve in my cupboard.) I subbed in violife faux-butter, soy milk, and a flax seed faux-egg for the animal equivalents.
Outcomes:
a enjoyable experiment, however —
- with, basically, a whole bunch of parsley and a whole bunch of mint within the combine, I anticipated these to virtually blow the roof of my mouth off. However, oddly, the flavour is muted blended veggie, as if I had used outdated kale as an alternative of knock-your-socks-off herbs. Might or not it’s the ‘seems contemporary however actually is not’ produce from Complete Meals? Or does it want a ton extra mint, or another extra fragrant herbs?
- the vegan substitutions labored tremendous, texturally, however, actually, they lack the anticipated umami. I would like to not use animal fat & proteins, however I nonetheless want to grasp the best way to make up for the ‘mmmmmm-deficit.’
- they’d have been so so so significantly better fried as an alternative of baked — the crispy (and, sure, oily) exterior would have introduced a texture/taste distinction that might have helped make these extra irresistible. As somebody mentioned to me this morning: every part’s unhealthy for you, it is unhealthy to breathe the air in New York, so why not fry?
- the glaze might have leaned a bit extra into the flavors. Maybe I ought to have diminished it on the range or used a barely extra intense number of citrus — meyer lemon, perhaps — and a jolt extra brandy.
Rob
ROFLMFAO 😂You undoubtedly ought to write a ebook with that title!
I like peppermint! Was that peppermint?
And glad to see two doughnuts posts in every week. Extra doughnut posts, please!
You may wish to strive toasted soybean flour and powdered coconut milk, Rob. I really feel they’re fairly a recreation changer, particularly in cake baking
And I am genuinely blissful for you diversifying your baking repertoire! Hold them coming!
Jay
thanks Jay! Sure to extra donuts! I eagerly await the styling ‘baked by Jay’ tackle the standard fried dough deal with.
Rob
PS– I get the soy flour thought, however why add powdered coconut milk. Could not I simply use the canned or vacpac’d stuff from the shop?
PPS — appeared like peppermint however it was simply labeled mint
Loving all of the issues that come out of your kitchen Bor, how unique this all sounds.
Undecided if whole-wheat is the perfect flour for it although, however I assume you knew that and simply went for it anyway which is a testomony to your baking expertise that you can nonetheless pull one thing good off.
I did misinterpret the sentence and thought you’d substituted all the vegan components with the animal equivalents to be dafka.
Hope you loved them very a lot along with your espresso substitute.
-Noj
- Let’s collaborate on a cookbook that turns all vegan recipes into full-on paleo caveman concoctions🤣
- Espresso is fruit juice — and as soon as I noticed that it made it a lot simpler to devour an excessive amount of of it.
- Years in the past, I labored the counter within the Cupcake Cafe at thirty ninth & ninth in NYC, which, regardless of the identify, really specialised in truffles and a couple of types of entire wheat donuts — ww-orange & ww-oat. Each had been terrific — the orange had been memorably crunchy & gentle — however it was lengthy earlier than my baking days & I by no means bought the recipe.
Bor
modern doughnuts there Rob.
I do know it may be troublesome to lock in sure flavours typically, flavours being largely volatiles, we bake them away within the oven.
Dried herbs is perhaps a more sensible choice, in any other case performing some form of infusion within the days prior may assist lock in these flavour compounds.
Mint, blood orange and brandy – may very well be the makings of recent cocktail!
Comfortable experi-baking!
thanks, Michael. Along with the risky flavors dissipating within the warmth, chlorophyll’s trademark colour fades as effectively. Thanks for the concept of doing an infusion.
And, a giant yea! to the non-traditional mint julep. The thought virtually makes me remorse that I’ve largely sworn off onerous liquor.
Rob
