dry ingredients
- 2 cups medium grind corn meal. if its too finely ground that is no good. if it is too course, also no good. bob's red mill medium grind cornmeal is okay but i wish it had a lower uniformity coefficient. sometimes i throw in some grits with the corn meal. i used to get perfectly irregularly stoneground corn meal from a farmer i knew but i moved away sad face
- a little more than a half teaspoon of salt .maybe .75? up to you
- around a half teaspoon of baking powder
wet ingredients
- more than 1.5 cups cultured buttermilk but less than 1.67 cups
- exactly 2 eggs
1 cut your oven on at 425 fakenheit and stick your 10 inch cast iron skilet in there
2 whisk the dry ingredients together
3 whisk the wet ingredients together
4 put out the skillet and add about a half tablespoon of an oil with a high smoke point like canola or corn oil
5 put it back in the oven for like almost ten minutes
6 whisk the dry and wet mixes together good enough to be consistent but don't overdo it. if the batter is too dry add some more buttermilk. if you don't know how to judge the appropriate wetness of the batter rest assured that you will gradually develop this sensitivity in the fullness of time. while we're waiting for that pan and oil to heat up the baking powder is reacting with the buttermilk to create some lift
7 get the skillet out and swirl the hot oil around to coat the whole bottom of the pan and a little up the sides
8 pour the batter into the pan and sort of shake it to get it evenly spread out
9 something like 20-25ish minutes later itll be done. you can do the thing with a knife like you do w cake where it should pull out clean. when the top just barely starts to brown thats usually when i yank it
e: step 8.5 put the skillet back in the oven
ee: lengthened cooking time based on trial and error. my initial 15-20 minute guess was based on a previous version of the recipe with a slightly smaller yield. i had been making smaller pones to stretch out a quart of buttermilk to make three pones but by the third (at a rate of 1/week) it seems to have essentially diminished somehow, resulting in poor chemical levening
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ialdabaoth posted:i saved a bunchof misc vegetable castoff parts and boiled them down intoa stock to make vegetable soup which produced more cast off vegetable parts that i will later boil down into stock to make more vegetable soup with
eventually i will geta pot big enough to make so much soup that each soup produces enough cast off vegetable parts to make the entire next stock all by itself
long term goal: a cauldron hanging over a hearth that i just throw some crap in every few days and eat forever
just readin old foodposts and i wanted to let you know you are describing a perpetual motion machine of soup which is dangerous for your soul and a sin against god. abandon your project before it is too late, soupman
ialdabaoth posted:note to self: seaweed soup? research aquatic vegetables
i would strongly recommend trying hijiki for this, it's my favourite dried seaweed
-banana
-big bag of hot cheetos
-tortellini
-chocolate
i expect to eat myself to death within the week