Comments on: The best laid plans…

By: henrietta

henrietta — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:41:33 +0000

Hmm…I quite enjoy the idiosyncracies of inexact recipes, and of recipes being being passed down. I have an amazing Apple Charlotte recipe from the sixteenth century that changes according to one’s station in life! Will try to hunt it down and post it up.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:43:20 +0000

There was this time I tried to re-make my grandmothers amazing cream puffs from her recipe which was…inexact. It’s one of those occasions best not discussed around the person who ended up cleaning the stove top…

By: gtlady

gtlady — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:32:02 +0000

I made a butternut squash and almond cake yesterday – very excited, it looked beautiful, and light as air, unfortunatly it tastes beyond rank. BEYOND RANK,squash and almonds not a good idea!

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:14:36 +0000

I’ve had some cooking and baking failures but nothing that sticks out in my mind. I always thought macaroon was fondant anyway – we used to buy them from a wee guy that brought them round the doors.
I made potato scones from the Maw Broons cookbook (hilarious play on my name) and they were basically the same, except using flour instead of icing sugar. Very messy!

By: Louiz

Louiz — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:27:48 +0000

The worst thing I’ve done is exploded a jacket potato in the oven. What was left tasted good though!

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:00:21 +0000

I’m not very good at pastry … some years ago, a failed attempt was eaten (raw)by our spaniel … I’m sure you can imagine the ‘end’ result!!!

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:07:24 +0000

hah! I saw the picture on Flickr and was thinking ‘hmm, I thought the macaroons were a fail?’
I see what you did. sneaky.

By: Fran

Fran — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:38:54 +0000

I burnt the motor out on my hand mixer trying to make this recipe and ended up running out of icing sugar. Eventually gave up !

By: Ailbhe

Ailbhe — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:16:31 +0000

We used to buy something called a macaroon bar, in Ireland in the 1980s – they were coconut and chocolate, but definitely didn’t have a fondant centre. I bet they were related.