Vanilla Sugar - Help!

[smilingcat]

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.

Thank you Mr. Silver,

Its bit puzzling to me though. Weights are definitly european/aussi/NZ but ts and TBS mixed in?? I was expecting to see ml or cc for liquid measurement. And the icing isn't it powdered sugar and not granulated? powdered sugar has corn starch. Regular sugar does not. And it makes a big difference when you make icing.

If the muffin came out dry you may need more butter and bit more lemon juice. Or use smaller eggs. Egg white tends to dry out cookies, muffin and cake. If I have time this weekend, I'll give it a try with the recipe.

And you did beat the eggs until it became a pale yellow ribbon before you added the flour, butter, sugar, baking powder, extract and the lemon.

[Flybye]

Thank you Mr. Silver,
powdered sugar has corn starch. Regular sugar does not.

Eye learnt sumthin knew tooday.

[Mr. Bloom]

...and I'm not feeling bad for being confused

[uk elephant]

european recipies commonly use tsp or tbsp for small volume liquids. And a typical lemon icing for lemon drizzle cakes or any number of other cakes involves dissolving granulated sugar into lemon juice over low heat and drizzling it over the cake. Delicious. It makes it even better if you poke a few holes in the cake with a fork for the lemon drizzle to sink into.

[tantrumbean]

Lol, this made me laugh - I had the same problem with vanilla sugar here in the UK, I was trying to make a marble cake following my German recipe. This, like 99% of German recipes, contained vanilla sugar. Couldn't find any anywhere! Fortunately my mum send me a 10 pack of sachets through the post, which sorted the marble cake and a few more baking attempts. For those who are still wondering what size these sachets are, they are about as big as a cigarette packet, but thin, so not the same as a sugar sachet in a restaurant. Very useful stuff it is too - maybe I should start a vanilla sugar import export business!!!

Edit: Just noticed someone else had the same idea:

http://www.koffeeklatsch.com/product...le_Zucker.html