Vanilla Sugar - Help!

[smilingcat]

Well, I just got back from the organic grocery and now know what a vanilla bean looks like. Wow, silly me, I thought they were round like coffee beans (but then I was 21 before I know shrimp had heads)

That conversion program was handy! But I fear I've really screwed something up. I had to convert from oz to gallons using that site and then convert from factional gallons (dry or liquid) to get to table/tea spoons! If this works, it will be a miracle!

Lemon muffins:
6.2oz butter melted = .85 cup butter melted
5.3oz icing sugar = 12.8 tablespoon icing sugar
0.4oz vanilla sugar = 2.4 teaspoon vanilla sugar
4 eggs = 4 eggs
1 lemon (juice)
11.5oz flour = 1.67 cups flour
0.4oz baking powder = 2.75 teaspoons
5tbs milk
- mix all together, put into forms.
Muffin forms: use butter or spray oil on them.
BAKE: preheat oven and bake at 356' (Fahrenheit), 25-30minutes.
let cool, then ICING: 10tbs icing sugar +1 lemon (juice)

I guess that tonight we'll know!

could you post the recipe in the original units. 4 eggs seems wayyy too much for the flour and the "oil" . This is looking a lot like pound cake or sponge cake not a muffin.

Temp is the typical baking temperature. 350F. When in doubt, bake it at 350F for cookies, brownies, muffin.

Gotta go shopping so when I get back I'll check in. in about 2 hours.

smilingcat

[papaver]

Well, I just got back from the organic grocery and now know what a vanilla bean looks like. Wow, silly me, I thought they were round like coffee beans (but then I was 21 before I know shrimp had heads)

That conversion program was handy! But I fear I've really screwed something up. I had to convert from oz to gallons using that site and then convert from factional gallons (dry or liquid) to get to table/tea spoons! If this works, it will be a miracle!

Lemon muffins:
6.2oz butter melted = .85 cup butter melted
5.3oz icing sugar = 12.8 tablespoon icing sugar
0.4oz vanilla sugar = 2.4 teaspoon vanilla sugar
4 eggs = 4 eggs
1 lemon (juice)
11.5oz flour = 1.67 cups flour
0.4oz baking powder = 2.75 teaspoons
5tbs milk
- mix all together, put into forms.
Muffin forms: use butter or spray oil on them.
BAKE: preheat oven and bake at 356' (Fahrenheit), 25-30minutes.
let cool, then ICING: 10tbs icing sugar +1 lemon (juice)

I guess that tonight we'll know!

I forgot to tell ya... a little package of vanillasugar is 8 g

[lph]

Mr. Silver - pm your address and I'll send you a package of vanilla sugar for use later. It's a staple here, really cheap, and then you can make lemon muffins til the cows come home

How do you usually measure stuff in recipes? I have recipes using both volume (litres, decilitres and/or cups, tablespoons etc.) and weight (grams).

[OakLeaf]

How do you usually measure stuff in recipes? I have recipes using both volume (litres, decilitres and/or cups, tablespoons etc.) and weight (grams).

In the USA it's almost exclusively by volume. The only common exceptions are for meats, and sometimes for large main ingredient vegetables (e.g., "one small butternut squash [1-1/2 lbs]").

[mudmucker]

As in US volume, not imperial or metric.

[Brandi]

Anything you could ever want in spices is here. http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/shophome.html including your sugar. Which I have some of and love!

[bmccasland]

You sure Papa said "darnit"?

So how did the muffins come out?

I have to admit, I broke down and bought a scale in my local office supply store - and my french frend gave me a measuring cup for liquid measures. Those two things makes life much easier, no more conversions.

[Mr. Bloom]

OK, the muffins were "OK", but dry...but every great recipe requires practice.

I don't have the original recipe, it was sent to me post conversion...

I made my own vanilla sugar using beans and the food processor.

LPH: I'll PM the address and reimburse your expenses.

[uk elephant]

Mr. Silver, I quite often have the "problem" of lacking vanilla sugar. Not a big deal. In an average sized cake or muffin recipie, just add a tsp of vanilla extract and skip the vanilla sugar. Turns out just fine usuall. And if I don't have vanilla extract (which here in britain is hugely expensive and only comes in tiny bottles) I'll use any random booze: a tsp or two of kalhua if it's a chocolatey recepie, a tsp or two of cognac otherwise, or a fruity liqueur if it's a fruity recipie.

[Crankin]

Mr. S, I was hurrying in the store today, to get just 2 things and I noticed a large supply of vanilla sugar packets in the area where the the cream cheese and other semi baking thing are kept. I never would have noticed it, before this thread.
This is just a regular grocery store, not even the biggest one I go to. But, we do have a large population of Europeans, especially from the UK, living around here. If you want me to mail some, let me know.

[tulip]

I often substitute Bourbon for vanilla, since I am a holdout for Really Good Vanilla and I never seem to remember to get some when I'm at the Fancy Food Store. And I always have Bourbon around the house

[Mr. Bloom]

This is just a regular grocery store, not even the biggest one I go to.

Review prior comment regarding "podunkville"

Smilingcat: Here are the original weight specs:

Lemon muffins:
175g butter, 160g sugar, 5ts vanilla extract, 4 eggs, 1 lemon, 12g baking powder, 325g flour, 5 tbs milk. Icing: 10tbs sugar, juice from 1 lemon. Bake at 355'F for 25-30 mins.

[Flybye]

Please send me a dozen muffins and I will do what I can to help you out
Congrats on the exchange student. I find irony in the word "exchange" in light of this thread

[Mr. Bloom]

He arrived 27 hours ago. We're having a blast.

[Flybye]

Pretty admirable. Enjoy!