zucchini bread
Nov. 23rd, 2009 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI _bought_ zucchini the last time I was at Idylwilde. That was weird; normally zucchini is something one resists, but I paid money for a bag of the stuff. I figured some could go in hash, and I could make bread, which might make for a somewhat healthier snack than the (dairy free!) danish that Roche Bros. has been carrying and that turn out to be very, very hard for me to resist.
I use the recipe out of Better Homes & Gardens cookbook. I am apparently unable to avoid modifying recipes, because I tried to type that I use it unmodified, then that I only made a single change, then only two changes. Then I gave up. Here's what I changed this time:
replaced the all purpose flour with a combination of whole grain hard red, soft white and spelt flours (yep, ran all of them through the mill. together)
left out the salt and the nuts
used a food processor to grate the zucchini, resulting in this case in a coarser grate than I would ordinary use
left out the nutmeg, increased the cinnamon and added some cardamom and ginger
Those are the changes I can think of offhand. And this is an example of me basically leaving a recipe alone.
It turned out well. The wonderful thing about BH&G recipes is you really can mangle them to almost unrecognizable and they still turn out great.
I put some zucchini in vegetable hash tonight, and that turned out well, too. I had been putting summer squash in, and it seemed like it wouldn't be that different and it was not.
I use the recipe out of Better Homes & Gardens cookbook. I am apparently unable to avoid modifying recipes, because I tried to type that I use it unmodified, then that I only made a single change, then only two changes. Then I gave up. Here's what I changed this time:
replaced the all purpose flour with a combination of whole grain hard red, soft white and spelt flours (yep, ran all of them through the mill. together)
left out the salt and the nuts
used a food processor to grate the zucchini, resulting in this case in a coarser grate than I would ordinary use
left out the nutmeg, increased the cinnamon and added some cardamom and ginger
Those are the changes I can think of offhand. And this is an example of me basically leaving a recipe alone.
It turned out well. The wonderful thing about BH&G recipes is you really can mangle them to almost unrecognizable and they still turn out great.
I put some zucchini in vegetable hash tonight, and that turned out well, too. I had been putting summer squash in, and it seemed like it wouldn't be that different and it was not.