(Warning: You are stepping into my kitchen's Fatality Perimeter.)
I've been in a make-do phase lately and today's "Make-Do-Doo-Wop" is KeyLime Tart:
Recycling cast of characters:
frozen egg yolks, thawed in frig
chilled Gluten-free lemon shortbread dough
Graham flour, kept in freezer
Keylimes, starting to yellow
Condensed milk, within date expiry stamp, but it's turned a darker shade....more like taupe pantyhose than beige and definitely darker than nude. Control top optional.
The GF lemon shortbread was a complete bust, but the ingredients were all good, so I added white and graham flour, grated the chilled log into that and added yogurt to hand-mix a tart base cookie dough. That's blind-cooking as we e-speak.
Filling is the concern: the Vitamix now sits on the countertop, guilting me into usage to lower the cost/use ratio. I wanted to try that trick Traca taught us about adding butter in a blender for a creamy lemon filling. Everyone went into the pool and I whirled it on high for ~5-minutes...digital read-out was 170 degrees.
The tart base just finished and when I went to add the filling to finish baking it, the filling was still steaming yet already firming up. So instead of the oven, it's waiting to go into the frig....without a final bake.
The question is: Will it be premeditated murder or second-degree manslaughter?
I've been in a make-do phase lately and today's "Make-Do-Doo-Wop" is KeyLime Tart:
Recycling cast of characters:
frozen egg yolks, thawed in frig
chilled Gluten-free lemon shortbread dough
Graham flour, kept in freezer
Keylimes, starting to yellow
Condensed milk, within date expiry stamp, but it's turned a darker shade....more like taupe pantyhose than beige and definitely darker than nude. Control top optional.
The GF lemon shortbread was a complete bust, but the ingredients were all good, so I added white and graham flour, grated the chilled log into that and added yogurt to hand-mix a tart base cookie dough. That's blind-cooking as we e-speak.
Filling is the concern: the Vitamix now sits on the countertop, guilting me into usage to lower the cost/use ratio. I wanted to try that trick Traca taught us about adding butter in a blender for a creamy lemon filling. Everyone went into the pool and I whirled it on high for ~5-minutes...digital read-out was 170 degrees.
The tart base just finished and when I went to add the filling to finish baking it, the filling was still steaming yet already firming up. So instead of the oven, it's waiting to go into the frig....without a final bake.
The question is: Will it be premeditated murder or second-degree manslaughter?