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Not following the recipe risks experiencing recipe anxiety: the fear that you are going to eat something gross. Ok, maybe it only applies to me, but I actually
by dqv 7y ago
Not following the recipe risks experiencing recipe anxiety: the fear that you are going to eat something gross. Ok, maybe it only applies to me, but I actually am scared about not following the recipe.
My husband modified a recipe to make it easier to read, but in doing so had also corrected a "mistake". He's not a pastry chef. He changed the butter cream recipe from "until the syrup is at 238 degrees" to "until the syrup is at room temperature". It wasn't too bad, but it was off. I got upset when I realized the modified recipe differed from the original.
- phonypc 7y agoI'm surprised it turned out at all. Cooking syrup to a specific temperature serves to produce a syrup of specific concentration, i.e. ratio of sugar:water. So under-cooked syrup ends up containing a lot more water than desired, as well as not being hot enough to cook and stabilize the egg whites that are presumably in the buttercream recipe.
- dqv 7y agoThe texture was... lumpy