These are a few of my favorite non-bread uses for sourdough discard. Both are fantastic.
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thank you!
Do you think that recipe would be good with a little bit of freeze-dried ground strawberry added?
A couple of years ago I made a delicious plum galette so I wanted to make another, this time using Smitten Kitchen recipe (last time I didn’t use her dough recipe, this time I wanted to try it).
As others stated, it rolled out easily (uses 1/4 cup of sour cream in addition to water) … but I have no trouble rolling dough anymore since I bought a silicone pastry mat! I prefer to do it in the Cuisinart … I also did 2 laminations of the dough.
At the farmers market I wanted to buy really red plums but at the Frog Hollow Farm stand, they told me Flavor Kings weren’t as red but had more flavor so I chose flavor over “pretty.” I didn’t know how many to buy to make 4 cups so bought 10 … I used 6 medium ones.
Recipe didn’t call for it but I made up “moondust” … it was right there on the counter and then I forgot about it! Not the end of world. Since I was tired, I decided to skip grinding the instant tapioca in the electric coffee grinder (recipe didn’t say to but other recipes had and I’d always done it before). You could see dots of white but I hoped they’d dissolve when heated … no go. It called for one Tablespoon of tapioca but next time I’d use 1.5 Tablespoons.
I didn’t bother with an egg wash, just brushed melted butter on the crust and sprinkled sparkling sugar … I don’t know if an egg wash would make it better. Anyway, it was delicious even though it wasn’t perfect.
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Especially pretty!
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I thought this one had a lot more flavor than the blueberry one I made recently. Maybe I didn’t add quite enough sugar to the blueberry one. Anyway, this was intensely flavorful, even with my mistakes.
I noticed that her recipe says Tapioca Flour … my package says Instant Tapioca so maybe that’s why I needed to grind it up first.
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Since Sun Maid Zante Currants are hard to find in SF, a few months ago I ordered 5 packs from Amazon. They were perfect.
I have 3 packs left, one has been in my dining room, intended for a friend. The other 2 were in a cabinet in my kitchen. It’s always cook where I live near the ocean and that cabinet isn’t close to my stove.
The 2 in the cabinet have ballooned up, look ready to burst … the one in the dining room looks normal.
What happened? I just emailed Sun Maid.
I just saw this on google:
Bags of dried fruit should not be so puffed up that they look like they may explode. Sometimes a bad piece of fruit can create bacteria that expands the package. It should be thrown out and a replacement sent for.
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Wow! Glad you looked it up.
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I once opened what should have been a perfectly good bag (new) of SMZC, and found quite a bit of white mold. I chucked it. It was only once and I remain a fan, but I always check the bags now.
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Apricot and rosemary polenta cake. I had some apricots to use up, and I love rosemary, so this checked some boxes. I don’t make a lot of cakes with cornmeal, as I don’t love the gritty texture, but in this recipe some of the cornmeal is cooked with milk before adding to the batter. This cake is also gluten free, with almond flour making up the rest of the dry ingredients. It has a great texture, and the pockets of tangy apricots and rosemary make it delicious and interesting to eat. I’m really enjoying the recipes from Sift—solid, interesting and gimmick-free recipes.
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dang, this is making me bummed apricots are gone here. looks right up my alley.
I bet plums would be good.
This makes me think of a GF cake my neighborhood bakery always has, which they call rose pistachio torte. It’s made with cornmeal, almond flour, and ground pistachios, flavored with cardamom, and has a glaze flavored with rosewater. Slightly nubbly texture, very pistachio-forward. Apparently it’s one of their best-sellers.
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I recently came across dried apricots that are plump, soft, and juicy. They are from France, and expensive, though. @pavlova I got them at the store called Pêches et Poivres in Almonte, for $10 a bag (don’t remember the weight).
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Scary! 
I’ll check it out. My mum lives there.
For those in the States, Nuts.com sells them as half-dried apricots for $14.99/lb, and Trader Joe’s has “soft dried apricots” for (I think) $5.99/lb, and both fit this description.
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Hmm… I’m not sure? It might be too much. But you won’t know until you try! I have a Jessie Sheehan recipe that I quite like with white chocolate and freeze dried strawberries.
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