Tornadoes and Friendship Bread.

[tsubasahome]

It's been an interesting year, weather-wise. Only 2 thunderstorm days so far and both of them have been tornadoriffic. Luckily, yesterday's warning for New Haven County was to the south of us. I don't know if there was a tornado there, anyway, but the first tornado warning of the day looks like it wasn't a false alarm. I heard Wethersfield, Farmington, and Newington got really trashed.

We continue to experiment with the Amish Friendship Bread. The recipe calls for one cup of oil, and oil in baked goods does absolutely nothing for me, so we tried switching out half of the oil for melted unsalted butter, and it was better...but the bread was too greasy. So yesterday we tried 1/2 cup of melted unsalted butter and 1/2 cup of sour cream. The texture was much better and we managed to trim the fat per slice from 14 grams to 6.7. ^^;;; Not low-fat by any means, but not disasterous like the original recipe. Granted, using all butter instead of all oil would've lowered the fat content as well, since tablespoon for tablespoon, butter has less fat than oil(though more saturated fat)...I'm assuming because of the water content of the butter?

I hate the way Mom acts like unsalted butter comes from the devil. Like it's so much work to have to add your own salt to the dish later. Salted butter always tastes like it's spoiled to me.