Household Notes March 2015
/The real baker’s secrets
I have been outed. We ran two recipes last month that I didn’t test, and readers have called with questions about both of them. Here come my secrets. I don’t like cooked peanut butter, and I don’t like baking soda. Cooked peanut butter smells and tastes bad to me, and baking soda burns my mouth. So, I took the recipes for health bars with their peanut butter, and the lassy buns, with baking soda, at face value. Marion MacIntosh from New Glasgow, N.S., called the office to tell us she made the health bars and they turned out crumbly.
I mixed the ingredients for the health bars, but the batter seemed dry, so I baked them only 15 minutes. They turned out fine, so I suggest that 30 minutes baking time was too long. My own preference would be to mix the ingredients, pat them in a pan and refrigerate. Forgo the baking altogether.