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I had some help this time. I tried not to be too controlling 
Frosting looks a little grainy. 
One of the links says that happens when you wish milk into chocolate when it’s too hot. Who’d a think it? 
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Mouth feel is okay, so I didn’t try to fix it.
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Do folks here have experience with mulberries ? A colleague is asking me for advice and I have never worked with them. In fact I’m not sure I’ve ever had one.
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Another attempt at decent GF bread for my daughter. This tasted really good (it’s got a bunch of dairy, butter, eggs in it - very much enriched) but it dried out very fast vs. the prior attempts. Like it was pretty dry by day 2.5 even though it’d been in a covered plastic bin.
That’s D3 giving the Thumb’s Up after she tried a slice of the bread.
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Only eating them. They kind of remind me of blackberries but less seedy and tart, more straight sweet. They really stain! And they’re a bit delicate.
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A family we hung out with when I was a kid had a giant mulberry in the front yard. We climbed it and played under it, but nobody cared for the berries (we kept hoping that one year they’d be sweet but they always remained too tart to eat, even for kids who sucked on lemons…)
But wowza. Our perpetually bare feet would stay purple for a week.
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I bought them before at FM in Sunset, SF, from Frog Hollow Farms. Expensive, extremely delicious, sweet.
Very brief availability.
I bought mulberry jam at Royal or World Market on Geary, SF, Russian markets.
Portuguese orange olive oil cake (thanks Mig for the rec). Should have halved the recipe, I hadn’t used that little bundt mold in years - made me remember that it’s not easy to wash. First batch I used butter generously to coat the molds and 2nd batch I followed instrux and used bakers spray. The buttered tins released perfectly but the finish is a bit craggy. 2nd batch (back right in pic) did not release nicely but have a smoother finish. The kitchen smells wonderful!
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Can’t wait to hear how you like it!
Just with growing silk worms at school and stealing leaves from all over the city to feed their voracious appetites. Never saw a berry.
That’s the aphids. Yum!
More seriously, I’ve never seen commercially available mulberries. The trees were thick on the ground where I grew up in the Midwest, though, so as kids we always climbed the trees (um, often regardless of ownership) with a bucket and brought a load down to eat.
We made these all the time when I was a kid! Great with any type of jam/preserves - I feel like we tried everything under the sun and it all worked.
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For cleaning all the crevasses in those little bundlet/cakelet pans, a nylon-bristle bottle brush works great.
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Or a toothbrush.
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I’m the chief cook, my husband is the “load the dishwasher” bottle-washer, who isn’t going to let any pan slow down the process – one twist of bottle brush per cupcake / bundtlet cup is his efficient solution.
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A few years ago I bought a bunch of cleaning tools for Bundt pans and used them as stocking stuffers. Very handy and I’ve gotten positive remarks. One end is a very small brush and the other end is pointed. One more item for the tool drawer, but handy.
nordicware.com/products/theultimate
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That link got truncated. This one should work.
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