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Twer the nights before Christmas
when all through the house
not a creature was stirring, but ...
trashing (3 minimally eatened Cao Plop recipes),
mashing (squares and rounds into tiny pieces),
and bashing (verbally, the whole time).
Having just settled 2 med. bread loaf pans
into a 350F pre-heated oven (with pans
lookin' like well-mounded meatloaves?)
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Added to this Plop batter:
1/3 cup light oat bran
1/4 cup 100% cacao powder
2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp salt
2 cups warm water
1/2 cup half & half
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup egg whites,
2 xlg eggs, whisked,
2 tbsp virgin olive oil
9oz pkg dried cranberries, soaked
... and a partridge in a pear tree
(if this recipe also gets a 1-Woof rating)
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Bake this 1 hr 20 min., then slice into fat sections,
place on parchment paper on a cookie sheet
and continue baking. How long? 35 min?
I might have to ask the partridge.
Why
Because loaf is too dense and moist
(but they might bake properly in the pans
at lower temperature ... for a day or two)
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Continued baking for 50 min. achieved a 2-Woof rating ...
plus swishy tail when consumed with pieces of 92% cacao bar
(and generous gulps of caffeinated joe).
My spell checker wanted to replace 'swishy' with 'squishy',
perhaps anticipating the "generous gulps of caffeinated joe".
Rod ...
...
(off for a break from the pasture ...
after tweak of Cacao Flatbread recipe)