Miscommunication. :)
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We adapted a lemon bar recipe to be made with some lime juice. We'll see. I haven't had much luck with cooking with limes, they go from perfect to too bitter even for me in a very small amount.
Perry was doing the actual cooking. One of the recipes we cobbled together said to add a few drops of green food colouring, and I nixed that. But then he called me to tell me that without any, it looked really really gross.
So I told him to go ahead and add ONE -ONE!!!!!- drop of food colouring.
This was the result:
OMG. One drop! I said ONE DROP.
He insisted he only added "a tiny amount".
One drop, I said.
And then.... we figured it out. He used gel food colouring not the standard liquid stuff. It never occurred to me that he'd go straight for the gels, though to be honest, it should have: I don't really ever use the liquid stuff, just the gels. I mean, if I am using food colouring at all... I am using FOOD COLOURING.
This is what the final product looks like:
Hopefully they taste better than they look.
We shall see.
ETA 15 June 2017
Eh. They were mediocre. Much too sweet and without anything that said lime.
I forgot to take a photo of an actual bar, but here is what the edges looked like:
We adapted a lemon bar recipe to be made with some lime juice. We'll see. I haven't had much luck with cooking with limes, they go from perfect to too bitter even for me in a very small amount.
Perry was doing the actual cooking. One of the recipes we cobbled together said to add a few drops of green food colouring, and I nixed that. But then he called me to tell me that without any, it looked really really gross.
So I told him to go ahead and add ONE -ONE!!!!!- drop of food colouring.
This was the result:
OMG. One drop! I said ONE DROP.
He insisted he only added "a tiny amount".
One drop, I said.
And then.... we figured it out. He used gel food colouring not the standard liquid stuff. It never occurred to me that he'd go straight for the gels, though to be honest, it should have: I don't really ever use the liquid stuff, just the gels. I mean, if I am using food colouring at all... I am using FOOD COLOURING.
This is what the final product looks like:
Hopefully they taste better than they look.
We shall see.
ETA 15 June 2017
Eh. They were mediocre. Much too sweet and without anything that said lime.
I forgot to take a photo of an actual bar, but here is what the edges looked like:
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Date: 15 Jun 2017 01:03 (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 Jun 2017 14:29 (UTC)They did eventually get eaten. They were ok. It was an amalgamated recipe, the crust from Smitten Kitchen's lemon bars (best lemon bars) but the filling/lime part from a recipe on the web. You cannot, btw, sub a lime for a lemon in the Smitten Kitchen recipe, it is too bitter. So I found a well-reviewed recipe on the web... It worked, but the bars were much too sweet and their limey-ness was never really apparent. So eh, bars, but nothing I'd make again.
And I'm still in search of a good lime bar recipe. Perry and I both love limes, and so far the best bars we've had have been out of a box. :(