Hit and miss in baking

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baking, burnt, caneles, caramelize, custardy, postaday2013

These are a hit or at least the better looking ones of the bunch.

These are a miss, slightly burnt on the outside and a shade undercooked on the inside.

These were misses, there aren’t many left because though they were unattractive, they were still tasty.

Caneles are a specialty of the Bordeaux region. They are so very addictive, they are firm and eggy on the inside and slightly crunchy on the outside. Whipping up the batter that makes a canele is so easy; milk, a lot of sugar, flour, a little rum, vanilla and butter and you let the batter rest for at least a day or two. The difficulty lies only in the baking, the oven is a very hot one, 400 F, so how do you get the inside cooked without turning the outside into charcoal. Therein lies the challenge that I am still having trouble with, I won’t give up. One of these days I will figure it out.

I made them for the Historical society. I have some left over batter so tomorrow I will bake the rest for the baby boy and my hubby.

Just for one day

Who would you like to have spend a day as you and what do you hope they'd learn from the experience?

I don't quite know who to pick for this exercise in life experience swapping. The show Wife Swap has more or less soured me on the concept. It seems to me that the original idea of walking in another's shoes was to deal with racism and prejudice. How else can someone plagued with bigotry and prejudice learn? If not for understanding that regardless of the cultural, physical and religious differences, we are all still human and more similar than not. I don't have these problems so I am not quite sure what a person would take away from living my life for a day. They might enjoy playing with Jack, playing in my kitchen, reading my books and tending my reawakened garden. I suppose that wouldn't be so bad, for a day.