We made quiches today! It was a simpler baking day in the lab today, seeing as tomorrow we have lab tests where we will be evaluated on recipes that we have tried before (i.e: peanut butter cookies and lemon loaf). So we took it easy today and made three quiches. We started by making the savoury pie dough, which again was fairly easy to make. The recipe was similar to the recipes we have used before, however it contained more savoury ingredients like salt. While we refrigerated the dough (it was very sticky and needed chilling before we attempted to roll it out), we cooked the ingredients that would be going into the quiches. We were making a quiche Lorraine, which is just bacon, ham and Swiss cheese, a broccoli and cheddar quiche and finally a onion cream quiche. We started by chopping and frying the bacon (which smells AMAZING at 9 in the morning), chopping the ham, blanching the broccoli florets and chopping and caramelizing the onions. This took some time. While the onions cooked for forever, I rolled out the dough and fit it into three pie shells. We baked the shells "blind" (I think I've explained this before, but if not it's when you bake the shells upside down on another pie pan so that the shell doesn't shrink too much). Once all the ingredients were prepared, we combined the egg mixture and put the ingredients in their partially cooked pie shells and baked them. They turned out very well and smelled incredible. We all managed to make these three quiches in three hours, even though our lab was supposed to be five hours! So, I got to go home early, which was great! I didn't have to carry around three quiches with me all day to the remainder of my classes! As I mentioned, tomorrow is a test day so it won't be too interesting... but my schedule changes next week and we will be starting cake composition :)

Quiches!

-broccoli and cheddar

- bacon, ham and Swiss cheese (quiche Lorraine)

- onion cream