Well after yesterday's sadness over Reddhott, whom I never encountered in the forum, and who must have been a lovely person, it seemed disrespectful to do a Friday cheat day post, so I saved it for today.
I'd bought more cans of media crema, not for my prepper supplies, but because sometimes I just get ideas for how to get fat. I got an 11 oz. bag of caramels. I was surprised to read on the package, they're only 130 calories for four of them, but I digress.
I recently tried the B&M Brown Bread, another prepper supply, a canned dark bread cake, or cake bread, slightly sweet, and to me it tastes kind of like gingerbread, though no spices are listed in the ingredients.
First you have to remove the cellophane wrappers from every single caramel. Consider it like shelling peas on the porch, time consuming but not difficult.
Then I melted a couple of tablespoons of butter in a saucepan, and strained the media crema into the pan, strained to remove little bits of milk solids, which don't taste bad, but you don't want them in your caramel sauce texture. Threw in a pinch of salt, stirred up the mixture and brought it just to a scald, little bubbles around the edge, then in with all of the caramels. Stir stir stir. They started to melt, but they weren't going to melt completely, so I covered the pan, put it in a cold oven, and started the oven at 350. When the beep sounded that the temperature was reached, I turned off the oven, leaving the pan in there. 10 minutes later, I removed it. Stir stir stir, still a few small lumps of un-melted caramel, so back in the oven for another 5 minutes.
I opened the cake bread can at both ends, pushed it out and cut off a slice, which you can barely see in the attached pic, all covered with apple slices, caramel sauce and a few pecans and walnuts. Left over was enough caramel sauce to fill a jelly jar.
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