getting ready for battle!
Posted by u l a n on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM.
I got my kitchen implements and my ingredients today for my lemon cake project. I'm using Jamie Oliver's recipe which I found in his book Cook with Jamie. =)
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I wasn't able to get ground almonds, but a little Googling taught me how using a knife and a blender. It was fairly simple, though a little tedious. Before you can even grind the nuts, you have to blanch them to loosen the skin (the brown stuff, according to what I've read online, is bitter).
So I blanched the almonds -- dunked them in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then plunged them in cold water -- and skinned them. It took me a good 15 minutes to get it done. Now to bash them up into tiny pieces, I tried to do it with a knife, patiently chopping them until they're tiny. After 10 minutes of doing that, I noticed that I still had a LOT of almonds left to chop. I brought out the blender and pulsed the rest. It work. The article I found online said it would, but I didn't trust my blender. Oops, sorry blender. Haha. But, there, it worked.
After that, I researched on how to measure butter. I have it in a 227g block. And according to this guide, a 227g block is equivalent to 1 cup. The wrapper of the butter had guide lines to show where to cut, so that helped. I cut the block in half (my recipe needs 1/2 cup) and set it aside in the ref. Tomorrow, I'll let it out to soften it while I'm greasing the baking pan.
I sure hope all goes well tomorrow! I'm quite excited. It'll be a completely home-cooked meal for us tomorrow: F is making the pasta, I'm making dessert!
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