Rosh Hashana cooking update.

[xiphias]

Okay: soup still smells really, really good. I let it cool off on the stovetop overnight, and it's still warm.

Honeycake smells wonderful, but I think I've got to work out better ways to grease bundt pans. It's not coming out of the pan. At all. Not even close. Not even THINKING about coming out of the pan. Oh well, if we have to, I'll serve it as a bread pudding and just SCOOP honeycake with a spoon.

I shaped the challot last night, and put them in the oven to rise.

They're FRIGGIN' HUGE!!!!! Okay, they started rising just fine. They're currently both larger than my head. HUGE!!! The two of them take up most of the oven.

We've got a picture, but it's on film, so it will be quite some time before we develop it, put it to CD, and get it up here so you all can see it.

Okay, should shower now and start cooking.

Comments

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Usually lining the pan with greaseproof paper (ummm called 'waxed paper' or 'baking parchment' or lots of other things too) is the answer to things staying in the pan when they shouldn't. Kindof like using muffin cups to make muffins, only bigger.

Shana tova!

[cheshyre]

It was a bundt pan.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

for a bundt pan, the best thing is to use a cooking spray, because that'll get into all the nooks and crannies.

If that's not working, you may wish to consider also flouring the pan. Grease it, sprinkle in some flour and shake it all around until evenly and lightly coated, throw away extra. If you're worried about using flour b/c you don't want your cake covered in flour at the end, use powdered sugar.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

...but I think I've got to work out better ways to grease bundt pans. It's not coming out of the pan. At all. ...

Have you tried one of the Silicone Bundt Pans (http://www.kitchencollection.com/tempproducts.cfm?sku=00228266). So far, we haven't had anything stick in any of our silicon stuff (we have bake pans, loaf pans, cookie sheets, muffin molds, and bundt molds).

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Challot of Doom!

The image comes to mind of the Blob.... or maybe that huge boulder in the first Indianna Jones movie, replaces by a giant Challot...

[cellio]

I have this vision of the challot continuing to grow, developing appendages, pushing the oven door open, and running wild. :-)

Try using cooking spray on the pan.

BTW, I got a new honey-cake recipe this year that appears to have worked well. (The test will be tonight.) I made it in loaf pans, not a bundt pan, but I didn't need to do any greasing. Remind me after Yom Tov/Shabbat and I'll send it to you if you like. (That is, assuming it tastes as good as it smelled.)

[mitchellf.livejournal.com]

Shana Tova U'Mituka! :-)

If you ever want my honey cake recipe (which is really my mother's recipe), just ask. I think you may have had it at least once while we were both at Brandeis (since she used to send me back to school with a loaf of it for Sukkot). My mom's recipe never sticks to the pans...then again, she always uses tin foil loaf pans, so if it sticks it's still removable....

Anyway, have a happy and healthy new year, and may you both be inscribed in the Book of Life. :-)

--me (No! Me!)

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

l'shana tovah! And by the way, rather than finding a better way to grease a bundt pany (which is a pain in the ass anyhow) just go out and get yourself a silicon bundt pan instead. They are soft and squishy which means you can peel the pan off the cake when its done. (Or just poke it a bit in the spots that are sticking.) This is what I use for the chocolate peppermint cake that I make which previous to silicon pans always ended up becoming chocolate peppermint bread pudding.