Saturday afternoon, the way I like it
Posted by Joelle
February 23, 2008
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Since investing in some measuring cups a few weeks ago, I’ve been able to get even more enjoyment from my favourite American food blogs like the delicious Orangette. This afternoon has been made perfect by the addition of these heavenly pistachio, oat and apricot cookies to the holy trinity of sofa, newspaper and a pot of tea. Contentment itself.
Go see for yourself – the recipe is here.
7 comments Categories: recipes
February 24th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Oooh, they look yummy! You could even kid yourself they’re healty too, with nuts, oats and apricots (ignore the sugar!) I was a having a sofa/newspaper/pot of tea weekend too… til I remembered that the Club for which I’m treasurer has its AGM in less than two weeks. So now I’m doing something perilously close to the dayjob – poring over speadsheets of figures – to finalise the accounts!
February 24th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
They look amazing. I can verify that if you pop in on Jo on any given weekend (or weekday, or weekmoment, for that matter) she is guaranteed to give good cake and full teapot action. There is always a baked good at hand. Good job on getting the measuring cups, I’ve cast aside many a good-looking recipe due to not getting the whole cups thing.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
It’s SO infuriating that there’s no easy conversion tables for cups to ounces :o@
Even Saint Delia of Food doesn’t do one :o(
February 25th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
That’s because cups measure quantity, not weight, so it will vary depending on the food. For example a cup of sugar would weigh more than a cup of marshmallows. Come to that, grated onion would weigh more than sliced as you’d fit more in the cup.
Here’s a converter where you can enter the food type and it works it out for you for anything from gummi bears to molasses.
You may also need their butter conversions as American butter sticks are differently sized to UK blocks – roughly just short of half a block = 1 stick.
Now go forth and bake cookies!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Of course I now have the reverse problems! Fortunately my mum never cooked metrically so her recipes work quite well in America, but trying to follow British recipes in generall leads me to much googling of conversion charts. Trader Joe’s banana bread (just add eggs and milk) is worryingly delicious – far to tempting to pass of as genuinely homemade!
February 28th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Whenever a recipe has called for cups, I’ve just used a mug – is that wrong? My gingerbread recipe has a mug of sugar, a mug of butter, etc.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
That ought to work reasonably well K, since the ingredients will still be proportionate to each other.
Mmm, I’m hungry.