No-Measure Peanut Butter Cookies. But How? Food52 2/16/2021
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Big Little Recipe has the smallest-possible ingredient list and big everything else: flavor, creativity, wow factor. That means five ingredients or fewer not including water, salt, black pepper, and certain fats (like oil and butter), since we re guessing you have those covered. Psst, did you hear we’re coming out with a cookbook? We’re coming out with a cookbook!
We are told that baking is a science, that there’s a right way to measure flour (fluff, spoon, level), that there’s a wrong way to measure brown sugar (to pack or not to pack?), that weight is superior to volume, that grams are more precise than ounces. And all of this is true, but none of it matters right now.
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Every once in a while, the wheel is reinvented. If we re lucky, smart, or even particularly ingenious, we find new ways to do old things. These novel approaches can flip convention completely on its head, or ever so slightly tweak a well-known formula. The latter is precisely the case with a recent internet hack that s been sweeping the internet.
It all started on TikTok (duh, where else?), when, on Dec. 29, user crystalscookingfun took a flour tortilla, cut a slit along its radius, placed a single ingredient into each of the circle s quadrants, folded accordingly, and griddled the whole affair to crisp perfection in a panini press. Her folded wrap included a sliced chicken cutlet, spring mix, tomatoes, and grated cheese. (Here s the gener