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Make Recipes: A Guide To Make The Perfect Recipe

Your grandmother didn’t leave you much of a heritage; maybe some gold earrings and a little old house somewhere near nowhere. You pass by the house, take a walk down memory lane and you find your grandmother old recipe book, and you wonder the secret for her citywide famous ‘Parisian Quiche’. You have the recipe in your hand, but you are not much of a chef, reading that recipe sounds like Chinese to you. You wonder if it would be worth to try to cook it, but then again instead of enjoying a piece of the quiche, you may end up in the hospital.

To avoid this to happen, here are some guidelines on how to make recipes, not just your grandmother’s quiche recipe, also any other recipe in her cookbook. After you know how to follow the recipe, you can get busy in the kitchen!

Recipe name

This should give a hint to what you are about to cook. You may even find some extra tips on the name of the recipe; the place of origin of the food like in ‘Parisian Quiche’, this one came from Paris of course. Or the recipe name can bring some extra spice like in ‘Carbonara a la Heart’, same old Italian Carbonara with a bit of Love in it. Anyway, if you start a recipe that says Quiche and you follow the instructions, you won’t end up with a Carbonara.

Servings

With a full house on Christmas, your grandmother did know how many mouths she could feed with one quiche, but just in case, she left there next to the recipe name the number of servings for the amounts of ingredients in the recipe. Let us say that the Quiche recipe starts with 6 chicken eggs, for 6 servings. If ever in the future you would like to make a smaller quiche, for example for 3 persons, just go with 3 eggs. Do the math for all ingredients and follow the same steps, you will end up with a quiche for 3 persons.

Time

Next to the servings there is a time reference, 75 minutes. Doesn’t take you too long to figure that one out, does it? Usually all recipes have this time reference; from a 10-minute kitchen wonder recipe for working moms without much time to prepare dinner after work, to this 75 minutes exquisite quiche and work of culinary art. Be careful to follow the specific cooking times and temperatures when it comes to put things to cook in the oven, they may come out burned or not cooked at all.

Ingredients

This is where the hard part starts, there is a list of items you’ll need from the grocery store. Chicken eggs, cream, tarragon, cheese, ground nutmeg, salt and pepper, and one prepared frozen pie crust. Every item has the amount needed for the recipe, which makes it easier for you. For salt and pepper your grandmother doesn’t give an amount, just writes down ‘to taste’, for this just follow your own personal taste. The recipe has some optional ingredients that will make the quiche different, but you may decide to go with the original version.

But what the heck is tarragon? You get yourself in the car, run to the store and ask the teller for tarragon, she points to a little bag of herbs with the name ‘French Tarragon’. Enigma solved. You wonder if this is the secret ingredient behind the name ‘Parisian Quiche’.

Directions

Let us get dirty. You have all the ingredients in the kitchen, and a fire extinguisher at hand, just in case. The directions tell you all the steps to follow to make the recipe. Follow each step in order and follow each instruction religiously, a reward will wait in the end of the directions. First, preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit (190 degrees in Celsius, if you were wondering). Then put the eggs, cream, nutmeg, tarragon, salt and pepper in a blender. Keep blending until the mix is homogeneous. Take the pie crust and fill it up with layers of shredded cheese and the mixture from the blender. Now place the quiche inside the oven and cook for 35 to 40 minutes. To check if it is cooked, place a toothpick in the middle and it should come out clean. Finally, remove the quiche from the oven and give time for it to cool, at least 20 minutes.