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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Gingery Maple Cookies
badly cribbed from Cook's Country
1 1/2 cup AP flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp table salt
1 tsp ground ginger
1 stick butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 tsp maple extract
3 Tbsp minced crystallized ginger
1/4 cup white sugar
Heat oven to 350.
Cream the butter and brown sugar. Mix in the egg, maple syrup, and maple extract. Add the flour, baking soda, salt, ground ginger, and crystallized ginger and mix to combine. Place the white sugar in a bowl. Roll the dough in 1-inch balls, then toss with the sugar to coat. Place on baking sheet, then flatten with a drinking glass (I apparently forgot to copy down this step- mine turned out puffy instead of flat). Bake for 10-12 minutes.
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New & Improved Spiced Nuts
1 lb nuts (I used almonds, pecans, cashews, and walnuts)
1 egg white
1 Tbsp apple cider (I used Trader Joe's spiced cider)
1 tsp table salt
1/2 cup white sugar
1.5 Tbsp black pepper
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp cardamom
1/4 tsp nutmeg
butter or cooking spray, to prepare the pan
Heat oven to 300. Prepare a sheet pan with a bit of butter or cooking spray. (I used a smallish nonstick roasting pan.)
Whisk together the egg white, apple cider, and salt. Mix in the nuts and stir to coat thoroughly. Drain in a colander for 5 minutes. Combine the sugar and spices and mix with the drained nuts. Spread in pan. Roast for 45 minutes, stirring every 10-15 minutes. Let cool and break apart any clumped together nuts.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
I made four pounds of spiced nuts last night during D&D for our company holiday potluck. It turned out that four pounds is more than I thought. I had them in a large Pyrex bowl, but it was overflowing. So I grabbed my big ol' cast iron French oven (not a Dutch oven, heavens no, Le Creuset wouldn't want to sully their name so) and mixed them up in there. I used a pound each of pecans, almonds, cashews, and walnuts. It's basically the Peppered Pecans recipe made without the butter, and using the "coat in egg white and liquid then drain for five minutes before baking" method I got from the Orange-Cardamom Spiced Nuts. So they're very crunchy, which was the only problem I had with the Pecans recipe.
The party is tomorrow. My coworkers better like them!
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