Thank you!! I spent the morning preparing Königinnen Pastete- not with the original shells, but with little crisp pieces of puff pastry (that still must get baked in this picture) because our interaction inspired me... and tadaaa, here comes the antique bottle, but it still tastes as it is supposed to!spiritualcookie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 7:15 amI love hearing about the German specialties! You know so many! I so value your experteze! It fills my heart with such appreciation!Paradise-on-Earth wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 5:02 amThe sauce belonged into (...) "Königinnen Pasteten" (a fancy Chicken- and tongue fricassee, coupled with finest peas, asparagus and carrots, filled into shells from savory Puff-pastry-dough).
(...) Wow! It may almost be an antique at this point!
(as I did not want to waste the rest of the puff-pastry-dough, I used it to do Pfirsich im Schlafrock ("peach in a dressing-gown")- peaches wrapped into dough, together with jam and Marzipan.
I didn't want to wait until it all will be baked and nicely served
oh I hear you. In my cupboard it's cocoa-nibs, glucose and several spice-blends that I'm not so sure of, after having bought themIt happens to me too with ingredients I don't have many obvious recipe ideas for. I've had lucuma powder, cocoa butter and coconut flour in my kitchen cupboard for many years!
For the coconut flour, it is free of gluten, and you can exchange up to 1/4 of your normal wheat flour with it, without changing anything at the recipe, but it helps if you add more liquids (the cocoflour binds up all moisture!). You also can substitute almond- or hazelnut flour with it by exchanging 1/4 of the weight, but not more, it all will get dry otherwise. It has almost no own taste (a bit to the sweet side).
(smarty-pants has struck again! )