Turnip Report

[mathhobbit]

When life gives you scallions:  https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/scallion-pancakes-2

Comments

[kelkyag]

<grabby hands> Om nom nom!

[mathhobbit]

It turns out that these are harder to make than they look! Will keep trying.

[kelkyag]

The shaping is non-trivial, and matters for texture, IIRC ...

[mathhobbit]

Oh. I thought the problem was amount and type of oil.

[kelkyag]

Also possible! <re-reads recipe> Most of the recipes I've seen for them call for lard. Chicken fat or vegetable oil surprises me.

How did they go wrong?

[mathhobbit]

Not oily or flakey enough -- much more like tortillas.

[kelkyag]

Ooof, yes, that would be weird and wrong.

[sauergeek]

The one time I made them well I think it was an almost croissant-like level of stretching (or perhaps rolling out) and folding over. That was many years ago, I no longer have any idea what recipe I was using. Just that there was a lot of effort toward building layers.

[mathhobbit]

Yeah, I rolled them out and dressed them with oil and scallions, rolled that into a tube, then rolled the tube into a snail. Then later I rolled out the snail. I think I lost a lot of oil on the second rolling out, which wouldn't be as big a problem with butter or lard.