My Brunch is Now Better than Yours!
I’ve been using The All New All Purpose Joy of Cooking for just over a year now. Its been a great resource and reference… especially when I want to make pancakes but don’t have pancake batter*, or I want to roast a turkey and don’t quite know how to proceed. In every instance of use I’ve found this book to be simple to use and immensely practical. Take this morning, for example…
After waking, I turned over in bed and in our typical Saturday morning routine asked Rachael what she wanted for breakfast. As usual, she requests something unpredictable and that we don’t have. “Cheddar and dill scones,” she responded.
Okay. That’s a challenge.
I got out of bed, opened our copy of the Joy of Cooking and turned to page 787, ‘About Biscuits and Scones’. Of course there wasn’t a savory scone recipe, but nonplexed I found instructions for Classic Currant Scones, page 791. I simply swapped out 1/3 c of sugar with a 1/4 c, put lots of dill into the dry ingredients along with some chopped cheese. Followed the rest of the instructions, topping the cut scones with sprigs of dill and cheddar.
After 17 minutes in the oven we were treated to the tastiest most perfectly textured scones either of us may ever had.
Now that the process of cutting butter and baking scones has been perfected, biscuits are next on the horizon. Once those are out of the way its highly unlikely that your hosted brunch will ever be as good as mine.
Yeah, thats a challenge.
*Its supper easy to make a pancake batter from scratch — plus it’ll save you money and taste lots better.
