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Sep. 10th, 2011 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday's exciting baking experiment: Apple-Cheddar Hand Pies.
Verdict: quite tasty. The recipe called for Golden Delicious apples but I am an apple snob and refuse to use Golden Delicious for...anything, especially baking. (I suppose they might be good for applesauce? But then, I don't like applesauce, so that's not really terribly applicable to me.) I substituted Granny Smith, which are good pie apples.
It made twice as much filling as I could fit into one puff pasty sheet, so I went ahead and made another sheet. Which leaves me with 12 pies (well, 11 now, because I had to eat one). I will admit that I complete forgot about the egg wash, so my pies aren't shiny, and the first six are quite ugly because I suck at folding puff pastry into triangles and then crimping it closed. I cut the second sheet of pastry into squares and folded them into little parcels, which I think look better.
Also, I made cheese bread, but since it's from that Bread in Five Minutes a Day cookbook and I already had the dough in the fridge, all I had to do was let it rise and then bake it. So that was easy.
And this has been adventures in baking!
Verdict: quite tasty. The recipe called for Golden Delicious apples but I am an apple snob and refuse to use Golden Delicious for...anything, especially baking. (I suppose they might be good for applesauce? But then, I don't like applesauce, so that's not really terribly applicable to me.) I substituted Granny Smith, which are good pie apples.
It made twice as much filling as I could fit into one puff pasty sheet, so I went ahead and made another sheet. Which leaves me with 12 pies (well, 11 now, because I had to eat one). I will admit that I complete forgot about the egg wash, so my pies aren't shiny, and the first six are quite ugly because I suck at folding puff pastry into triangles and then crimping it closed. I cut the second sheet of pastry into squares and folded them into little parcels, which I think look better.
Also, I made cheese bread, but since it's from that Bread in Five Minutes a Day cookbook and I already had the dough in the fridge, all I had to do was let it rise and then bake it. So that was easy.
And this has been adventures in baking!
