I remembered making it with my Mom when I was a kid, and the various size piles of spices in the bowl before they were stirred in. I was just about positive cinnamon was the biggest pile and cloves was the smallest--quite small. I was pretty sure the other two spices were ginger and nutmeg, with ginger being bigger and nutmeg being smaller.
Mom's corrected recipe called for 4Tbs cinnamon, so that gave me my cinnamon target. I was making a 1/4 batch (because why throw all those ingredients away if I got it badly wrong, and if I made something I liked a quarter batch was a reasonable amount for me and Kip to eat) so I used 1 Tb cinnamon, 1/2 Tb ginger 1 tsp nutmeg and 1/4 tsp cloves. It came out tasting pretty much right to me, but the texture was a bit more cake-like than I remembered--probably because at that size the recipe called for half an egg and I think I ended up with more like 2/3 or 3/4 of an egg. It's hard to divide an egg in half.
Even so, I liked it enough that Kip only got a couple of pieces. Probably not something I should make very often.
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Date: 2020-05-07 01:54 am (UTC)I remembered making it with my Mom when I was a kid, and the various size piles of spices in the bowl before they were stirred in. I was just about positive cinnamon was the biggest pile and cloves was the smallest--quite small. I was pretty sure the other two spices were ginger and nutmeg, with ginger being bigger and nutmeg being smaller.
Mom's corrected recipe called for 4Tbs cinnamon, so that gave me my cinnamon target. I was making a 1/4 batch (because why throw all those ingredients away if I got it badly wrong, and if I made something I liked a quarter batch was a reasonable amount for me and Kip to eat) so I used 1 Tb cinnamon, 1/2 Tb ginger 1 tsp nutmeg and 1/4 tsp cloves. It came out tasting pretty much right to me, but the texture was a bit more cake-like than I remembered--probably because at that size the recipe called for half an egg and I think I ended up with more like 2/3 or 3/4 of an egg. It's hard to divide an egg in half.
Even so, I liked it enough that Kip only got a couple of pieces. Probably not something I should make very often.