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Post subject: Butterbeer  Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:19 pm |
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Haven't tried this one yet, but if anyone does, let me know how it works out Quote: No need to travel to Hogsmeade (or to Universal Orlando) to get a taste of Harry Potter's butterbeer. Universal isn't giving out its recipe, but we've created an easy version of the formerly fictional drink made famous by the young wizard. BUTTERBEER Start to finish: 1 hour (10 minutes active) Servings: 4 1 cup light or dark brown sugar 2 tablespoons water 6 tablespoon butter 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar 3/4 cup heavy cream, divided 1/2 teaspoon rum extract Four 12-ounce bottles cream soda In a small saucepan over medium, combine the brown sugar and water. Bring to a gentle boil and cook, stirring often, until the mixture reads 240 F on a candy thermometer. Stir in the butter, salt, vinegar and 1/4 heavy cream. Set aside to cool to room temperature. Once the mixture has cooled, stir in the rum extract. In a medium bowl, combine 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar mixture and the remaining 1/2 cup of heavy cream. Use an electric mixer to beat until just thickened, but not completely whipped, about 2 to 3 minutes. To serve, divide the brown sugar mixture between 4 tall glasses (about 1/4 cup for each glass). Add 1/4 cup of cream soda to each glass, then stir to combine. Fill each glass nearly to the top with additional cream soda, then spoon the whipped topping over each. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/07/ ... z20NIKbepY
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:45 am |
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...that's 1.5T butter/serving. That's gross. EDIT: Oh wait, those are very large servings. Okay that's not as bad as I thought it was. Still, that's a LOT of butter. 
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:06 am |
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It's called butterbeer. What did you expect?
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:09 am |
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Please tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't get these measurements at all.
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:19 am |
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The measurements make sense! The real outrage is that they specified 240F. Such a silly system.. Everyone should be forced to use Kelvin. 388 Kelvin for us sensible, sciencey types :p
That said, I think the entire measurement system used in cooking can, at times, be very silly. The world as a whole should move over to metric systems for everything instead of relying on strange, non-systematic measurements like feet and inches, pounds and ounces, "spoons" and "cups".
ANYWAY, back on topic.. This looks delicious. Someone make me some =(
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:24 pm |
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Twixeater wrote: Everyone should be forced to use Kelvin. +1
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:23 pm |
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Don't you guys have measuring cups?
I was baffled personally by the candy thermometer? Candy thermometer? You need an entire thermometer to measure candy temperature?
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:30 pm |
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Candy thermometer is actually a specific type of thermometer designed to measure the temperatures that are commonly used while making candy, based on the melting point of sugar.
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:20 am |
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Yeah, we have measuring in cups. We use some old, imperial units, too. I just think that the metric system and Kelvin are vastly superior! Science does that to you D:
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:00 pm |
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Charity wrote: Don't you guys have measuring cups?
I was baffled personally by the candy thermometer? Candy thermometer? You need an entire thermometer to measure candy temperature? We do not. We have cups. I could go to the kitchen, and I'd probably be able to find five to seven different sizes of cups. I have no clue what so ever what the size of a "measuring cup" is. I've seen converters try with it, but it appears vastly different depending on what it is. Converting a cup of sugar to gram, for example, does not necessarily yield the same result as when you convert a cup of butter to gram.
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Post subject: Re: Butterbeer Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:46 pm |
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It's a measure by volume, rather than by weight. When a recipe calls for cups of something, it's referring to standard measuring cups, which hold 8 fluid ounces, which can be converted to mL if metric is your thing. So you're essentially measuring the things in mLs, even if they're solids; all you have to do is fill up the cup.
For things like butter, you'll usually use measuring spoons instead(same principle as the cups) and pack the butter down in them. Stick butter(the kind you'll often use for cooking) usually comes with rough tablespoon measurements printed on the paper each stick is wrapped in, so you just use a knife and cut off however much you need.
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