Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumnote for bakers who use parchment
I picked up a 25 foot roll of baking parchment at the dollar store. I've used it this year when baking cookies, and it was just fine! One buck.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)to render Daffy's fat into for the first half hour, after which he'll go into a rack in a big pan with potatoes and leeks roasting in the rest of the ducky goodness underneath him. His skin, once the fat has rendered, will be brushed with a brew of apricot preserves, hoisin sauce and a blast of Sriracha for sweet/fruity/savory/piquant goodness.
And I'll have duck fat to last all year, probably.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)then I decided they were too flimsy to support the cake I was sending on Amtrak with the college boy.
But I was sure happy to find the parchment!
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)Sounds delicious!
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)Yeah, I'm one of those.
The Sriracha gave it just enough of a kick, the apricot preserves gave it some sweetness and the hoisin sauce was the savory.
I have no idea how much I used of each.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)I would never take on a duck without instructions. First, they are too expensive. Second, I just don't have enough experience with duck.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)and a meat thermometer will tell you when it's done.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)
what other things are enhanced with duck fat? Is it good as a general fat to be used in anything? I think I've had duck maybe one time in my life, much earlier, and obviously it didn't make an impression at that young age.
Thanks in advance.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)You can also use it in recipes that call for bacon to be rendered into bacon fat. It's different but it's good. I love sweating soup veggies in it.
Still, it really sings loudest when you cook potato in it.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I have a smoker, so perhaps I should just take the plunge to smoke some Daffy courage .
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)I'll have to make a stop for parchment in the next couple of weeks. My kind of pricing!
Callalily
(14,894 posts)I'll have to pick some up next time I'm in that part of town.
NJCher
(35,729 posts)I use parchment paper for everything, having had the fear of Dog put in me of aluminum foil (Alzheimer's).
Cher
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Lots more than just cookies! So I picked up a roll.