baklavaMy first year at college I thought it'd be a good idea to make baklava. I had eaten it before and liked it.
I found a recipe on the Internet (yup, of course I thought everything on the Internet was the truth) that called for 2 cups of butter, melted. I was to use brush butter onto each layer of (whatever that thin flaky bread is called), and then the recipe said to pour the remaining butter on top when done with all of the layers. Well, I had about 1.5 cups of butter remaining .... but that's what the recipe said to do, so I had better do it! The whole mass of flaky bread, nuts, and honey started floating in the pan with all of the butter. Someone with any common sense would have drained out some of the butter ... but no, that's what the recipe said to do!
So I then baked the baklava ... and I thought it might be helpful if I use a slightly higher temperature and longer time to evaporate the butter away (ummm how dumb am I?). Result: Burnt baklava, but still moist as hell with butter. Ended up draining off about a cup of butter, then having to use a spoon to eat it, and man, that was not good. It slid right down my throat ... and probably through my whole system.
Never again.
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Mon 13 Oct 2003, 17:43,
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I found a recipe on the Internet (yup, of course I thought everything on the Internet was the truth) that called for 2 cups of butter, melted. I was to use brush butter onto each layer of (whatever that thin flaky bread is called), and then the recipe said to pour the remaining butter on top when done with all of the layers. Well, I had about 1.5 cups of butter remaining .... but that's what the recipe said to do, so I had better do it! The whole mass of flaky bread, nuts, and honey started floating in the pan with all of the butter. Someone with any common sense would have drained out some of the butter ... but no, that's what the recipe said to do!
So I then baked the baklava ... and I thought it might be helpful if I use a slightly higher temperature and longer time to evaporate the butter away (ummm how dumb am I?). Result: Burnt baklava, but still moist as hell with butter. Ended up draining off about a cup of butter, then having to use a spoon to eat it, and man, that was not good. It slid right down my throat ... and probably through my whole system.
Never again.