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11-03-2009, 10:40 AM
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Salted Brown Butter Crispy Treats
This sounds like a yummy change to the normally yummy Rice Krispies treats. From Smitten Kitchen, source of tasty things and food porn. I think I'll make these for my weekend trip.
Salted Brown Butter Crispy Treats
What’s different about these? Oh, just a bit more (coughdouble) butter which you toast until it’s brown and nutty and help along with some coarse salt, just minor things. But it changes everything.
Makes 16 2-inch squares or 32 1- x 2-inch small bars
4 ounces (1/4 pound) unsalted butter, plus extra for the pan
1 10-ounce bag marshmallows
Heaping 1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt
6 cups Rick Krispies cereal (about half a 12-ounce box)
Butter (or coat with non-stick spray) an 8-inch square cake pan with 2-inch sides.
In a large pot, melt butter over medium-low heat. It will melt, then foam, then turn clear golden and finally start to turn brown and smell nutty. Stir frequently, scraping up any bits from the bottom as you do. Don’t take your eyes off the pot as while you may be impatient for it to start browning, the period between the time the butter begins to take on color and the point where it burns is often less than a minute.
As soon as the butter takes on a nutty color, turn the heat off and stir in the marshmallows. The residual heat from the melted butter should be enough to melt them, but if it is not, turn it back on low until the marshmallows are smooth.
Remove the pot from the stove and stir in the salt and cereal together. Quickly spread into prepared pan. I liked to use a piece of waxed or parchment paper that I’ve sprayed with oil to press it firmly and evenly into the edges and corners, though a silicon spatula works almost as well.
Let cool, cut into squares and get ready to make new friends.
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11-03-2009, 07:58 PM
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Reverse snobbery?
we were at a place that had a pepper shaker, as opposed to "fresh ground pepper". the stuff from the shaker was finely ground and really tasty. I think fresh ground is usually too coarse so you don't really taste. thoughts?
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11-03-2009, 08:53 PM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
we were at a place that had a pepper shaker, as opposed to "fresh ground pepper". the stuff from the shaker was finely ground and really tasty. I think fresh ground is usually too coarse so you don't really taste. thoughts?
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My thought is that you are wrong. Pepper in a pepper shaker is uniformly dry and saw-dusty. The only flavor is bitter spice.
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11-03-2009, 08:55 PM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
My thought is that you are wrong. Pepper in a pepper shaker is uniformly dry and saw-dusty. The only flavor is bitter spice.
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dry? all black peppers are dried.
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11-03-2009, 09:48 PM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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dry? all black peppers are dried.
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I am describing the taste, not the moisture content (which is not zero, at least for peppercorns), much as one might use the adjective "Dry" to describe a martini, even though the moisture content of that is close to 100%.
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11-03-2009, 10:02 PM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I am describing the taste, not the moisture content (which is not zero, at least for peppercorns), much as one might use the adjective "Dry" to describe a martini, even though the moisture content of that is close to 100%.
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translation: i get super-ultra octane gasoline, cuz it's better!
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11-03-2009, 11:34 PM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
we were at a place that had a pepper shaker, as opposed to "fresh ground pepper". the stuff from the shaker was finely ground and really tasty. I think fresh ground is usually too coarse so you don't really taste. thoughts?
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The grind is less important than the freshness of the pepper and the quality of the peppercorn. A machine-ground tellicherry that is less than six months old is going to blow away a two-year old jar of malabar pepper corns in a mill.
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11-04-2009, 10:36 AM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
translation: i get super-ultra octane gasoline, cuz it's better!
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Reverse translation: My tongue has as much taste and refinement as the autos made in Detroit.
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11-04-2009, 10:36 AM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by taxwonk
The grind is less important than the freshness of the pepper and the quality of the peppercorn. A machine-ground tellicherry that is less than six months old is going to blow away a two-year old jar of malabar pepper corns in a mill.
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Hank seems to have discovered the one restaurant that bothers to grind pepper freshly for placement in the shakers on the table. Kudos to him.
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11-04-2009, 11:02 AM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Reverse translation: My tongue has as much taste and refinement as the autos made in Detroit.
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nice. yes I am am a kid that grew up poor, and I'm frequently in over my head here (hi Ty!), and I still don't have the sophistication and experience that you had at 18, so when I stick my neck out and make a statement about how I feel about pepper, maybe i don't realize it sounded dumb, and so it's okay for you to body-slam-insult me.
what you miss is that since I don't feel worthy to even be on the same web page as most of you, I actually feel I deserve the insults,
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11-04-2009, 11:31 AM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
nice. yes I am am a kid that grew up poor, and I'm frequently in over my head here (hi Ty!), and I still don't have the sophistication and experience that you had at 18, so when I stick my neck out and make a statement about how I feel about pepper, maybe i don't realize it sounded dumb, and so it's okay for you to body-slam-insult me.
what you miss is that since I don't feel worthy to even be on the same web page as most of you, I actually feel I deserve the insults,
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Hi!
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11-04-2009, 11:54 AM
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Patch Diva
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
nice. yes I am am a kid that grew up poor, and I'm frequently in over my head here (hi Ty!), and I still don't have the sophistication and experience that you had at 18, so when I stick my neck out and make a statement about how I feel about pepper, maybe i don't realize it sounded dumb, and so it's okay for you to body-slam-insult me.
what you miss is that since I don't feel worthy to even be on the same web page as most of you, I actually feel I deserve the insults,
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Hank, I'll see your rube upbringing and raise you.
I never saw a pepper mill until I was in college and visiting my roommate's family. They took us to eat at their country club and there was a pepper mill on the table. I picked it up and was turning the top trying to figure out how to get it off (I guess so I could shake pepper on my food). After a little while my roommate's Dad asked me if I thought I had peppered my lap enough.
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11-04-2009, 12:36 PM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Fugee
Hank, I'll see your rube upbringing and raise you.
I never saw a pepper mill until I was in college and visiting my roommate's family. They took us to eat at their country club and there was a pepper mill on the table. I picked it up and was turning the top trying to figure out how to get it off (I guess so I could shake pepper on my food). After a little while my roommate's Dad asked me if I thought I had peppered my lap enough.
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did he come into the room later that night?
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11-04-2009, 01:08 PM
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Patch Diva
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
did he come into the room later that night?
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Nope. This is a rube/prole story, not letters to Penthouse!
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11-04-2009, 01:25 PM
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Re: Reverse snobbery?
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Nope. This is a rube/prole story, not letters to Penthouse!
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you were an 18 year old girl meeting your roomie's dad, and he says you got "pepper in your lap." you wrote that, not me.
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