About a week ago I have posted about my unsuccessful attempt to bake profiteroles. In the post I mentioned that I will strive to achieve perfectly baked profiteroles until the end of 2012.
I have attempted to bake these three times since then and today, on 31st of December, I have finally achieved my goal. To be honest I was very surprised with my patience each time I took out trays of flat dough but I never stopped: I continued altering the recipe a little, or using a completely different one, experimenting with temperatures and proportions.
I am a huge follower of Gordon Ramsay's work and I have no idea why I haven't thought about it earlier but today I have decided to follow his profiteroles' recipe to bake mine. With the help of master chef I was able to bake today's profiteroles and achieve my target.
This is the link to his recipe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCeiz0PdGls
Overall on my route to success I have used 3 different recipes and wasted:
- 700 ml of water
- 525 ml of milk
- 850 grams of butter
- 17 eggs
- 800 grams of flour
- 1450 ml of whipped cream
- 10 pods of vanilla
- 10 hours of personal time
However, every time I repeated the recipe I have:
- developed new skills
- increased awareness of strengths and weaknesses
- shown perseverance and commitment to cookery
I have attempted to bake these three times since then and today, on 31st of December, I have finally achieved my goal. To be honest I was very surprised with my patience each time I took out trays of flat dough but I never stopped: I continued altering the recipe a little, or using a completely different one, experimenting with temperatures and proportions.
I am a huge follower of Gordon Ramsay's work and I have no idea why I haven't thought about it earlier but today I have decided to follow his profiteroles' recipe to bake mine. With the help of master chef I was able to bake today's profiteroles and achieve my target.
This is the link to his recipe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCeiz0PdGls
Overall on my route to success I have used 3 different recipes and wasted:
- 700 ml of water
- 525 ml of milk
- 850 grams of butter
- 17 eggs
- 800 grams of flour
- 1450 ml of whipped cream
- 10 pods of vanilla
- 10 hours of personal time
However, every time I repeated the recipe I have:
- developed new skills
- increased awareness of strengths and weaknesses
- shown perseverance and commitment to cookery
Karina, you have made my day by using the sentence "Wasted the following ingredients....!". You have showed (1) Strength in being able to persevere with your baking. (2) Identified some weaknesses at the start, which were related to your baking and (3) Identified your strength which was your patience in attempting this recipe. Well done!
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