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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Non Food Recipes => Topic started by: marmee on June 28, 2009, 05:26:29 am
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On to making my 4th batch of playdough (playgroup-style meeting tomorrow) - does the recipe in the Everyday cookbook need tweaking?
I am adding food colouring in at step one (saves kneading in the colour at the end by hand) and finding that the oil is way too much and 280g flour works best.
Maybe my scales are out? I used 20ml oil perfectly - 20g was too much ???
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Thanks marmee - seems it does need tweaking - http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=699.msg5485#msg5485 (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=699.msg5485#msg5485)
Has anybody told Tenina ?
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Thanks Thermomixer. I have added my "tweak" to the thread you sent me to.
I have no idea how to tell tenina???
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Tenina is our saviour at TMX OZ - she is the food tester and recipe book co-ordinator, and she responds to our suggestions.
Her email address is tenina@thermomix.com.au (http://tenina@thermomix.com.au)
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Thanks = will email her.
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As an aside, do you buy plain white flour from the supermarket to make playdough?
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I just buy homebrand plain flour from the supermarket to make playdough
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Thermomix Playdough
Ingredients:
250g Water
100g Cooking Salt
1 Tablespoon Cream of Tartar
280g Plain Flour
15ml Cooking Oil
Food Colouring or Powder Paints (to colour)
Preparation:
Put the water, salt, cream of tartar and food colour into *:. Heat for 5 minutes at 60o on speed 3.
After cooking, add flour and mix for 40 seconds or until mixture is combined and thick.
Set dial to closed lid position.
Add oil and knead for 1 minute on ::
Tips/Hints:
If you wish to make several different colours from the one batch, leave out the food colour in step 1. Then when dough is made, divide dough into balls and add a different colour to each ball. Knead the colour through the dough. Store each colour in a separate airtight container to keep dough from hardening.
Encourage your children to be creative and make play dough models, characters, animals etc.
I have written this recipe as I now make it, which is the "tried and tested forum recipe"!! ;) Thanks everyone for your input.
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Ta, have you sent it to Tenina?
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Hmmm no as I thought someone else had earlier. I just changed my book when we had a confirmed better tested recipe. If no one has sent it in I will do so. Let me know ;D
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Thanks Kathryn for this recipe. I used it as a base for the advents candle and it worked out very well and, in my opinion, was quite pretty.
(http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x161/barbara322330/DSC03512.jpg)
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Nice to see you found a use for playdough at your age Barbara ;) ;) Yes, it does look nice indeed.
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Beautiful Barbara! What a brilliant idea, so easy for decorating as everything would be able to be pushed into the dough and would stay put. ;D ;D
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Thanks Judy
Kathryn - that was actually the beauty of it, for nearly six week it just "stayed put"
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Great idea Gralke - really lateral thinking !!
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I'm so glad you bumped this one Barbara as I am having the grandies on Tuesday and I am going to make it for the little fellow to make a mess with. I always do cooking, craft work or colouring in with the 5 yr old but the toddler is left to amuse himself and give me lots of cuddles. I'm sure he will love to sit at the 'work table' with us girls and do something different for a change. Miss 5 is going to think her Grandma is sooo clever. I impressed her last time by making some glue out of flour and water for her project and she couldn't wait to tell her Mum about it.
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I made glue today JD - sadly I wasn't trying to though. Never pour boiling water into your TMX to wash it after you have been making bread!!! ;)
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Did you bottle it Chelsea? ;D ;D ;D
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Hi, i made this play dough yesterday for the kids and it was great,
thanks again.
Robyn
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Did you bottle it Chelsea? ;D ;D ;D
Cheeky-chops!!! ;D
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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In this "modified" version (which I wish I'd found BEFORE I did the book version grrrrr) do you have to do the allow to cool step? Or add the oil straight away??
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Lexi, I add the oil straight away and I am sure that others are/were too. I don't have time for it to sit and cool lol :D
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And I think that's partly where the original recipe mucks up!! Thanks wish me luck then :P
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I accidentally put in 20ml oil but omg it worked!!!! This modified version def better including not waiting for cooling down!! Thank you, very happy kids now :)
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To make your playdough a really sensual experience, try adding rose geranium oil to pink playdough and peppermint oil to green.
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I always use baby oil for playdough. Work really well.
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kids are loving this but finding it dries out real quick especially in winter with ducted heating, do you think bit more oil would help??
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I doubled the recipe today and thermie coped well. I just used the knead setting instead of the speed dial when adding the flour (I do this with large amounts of dough). This is the first time I haven't allowed the dough to cool and I don't think it made any difference. I won't be waiting anymore. :)
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Did you bottle it Chelsea? ;D ;D ;D
*LIKE* :)
i have my little great niece sleep over last night .... and this aunty is going to make miss 2 a batch of the tweaked thermo play dough and see how it goes ...it sure is going to be different to the old dislocated elbows over the stove top while stirring style that i used to do for our kids.
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I never wait for it to cool down..
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turned out perfect and i even popped a bit of glitter into it while doing the final kneading ...cause the baby girl needs bling bling if she is going to be a diva one day !!!
thanks for the tweaking
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Love the glitter idea. I sometimes put essential oil like lavender in.
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I made 3 batches with Faffa's tweaked recipe. http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=1279.msg11255#msg11255
Can you believe this is the first time I've ever made playdough......and the funny thing is, it wasn't even for kids to play with :P
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/3a39bf2fd8badbcb17dbffc89ce74f5c.jpg)
Perfect base for sticking in some sweets.
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Hi
Where do I get the food coloring and cream of Tatar from ?
Thanks
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Any supermarket stocks those items Monikaos. The cream of tartar will be near the flour, usually up on the top shelf in my supermarket and the food colouring is in the section a bit further along the same aisle with cake making items.
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Found it
Thanks
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Hi
I have made the Thermomix play dough using the tweaked recipe (280g of flour and 15g oil) several times now, and sometimes my dough forms a nice neat ball when kneaded, but most times it's like it's being shredded and comes out looking like suet.... Does anyone else have this issue?
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No I haven't had that problem. Can you knead it into a ball by hand?
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i havnt made playdough yet, maybe i will try it next year ;D
welcome to the forum loubrown ;D
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Thanks for the reply.... I can knead it by hand, but that sort of defeats the purpose and I'd like to make and sell playdough at a school fair coming up, and it doesn't show the machines kneading capability in the best light if I have to do it by hand!!
Before kneading I have tried waiting for the dough to completely cool, letting it cool to 37, not waiting for it to cool at all, and the same thing happens! I also add my food colour in step 1.
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I often make the playdough from the EDC (I got my EDC & TMX last year) and haven't had a problem (except for the time I added too much oil......). I add my food colouring to the water so it doesn't need kneading in at the end and I never wait for it to cool down. I'm not sure why it would come out 'shredded'...Perhaps if you are not using the :: setting? Sorry I can't be of much help...but playdough would be a great item to sell at a school fair. I am often asked to make it for my teacher colleagues because the TMX makes it so smooth and lovely to use.
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Thanks Jamberie - it sounds like you and I are doing it exactly the same... hmmm.. Do you add your oil at the end?
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Dear Faffa,
Thank you for your playdough recipe. I made twelve batches of it before a Mothers' Day market stall today plus demonstrated it for about four hours whenever kids paused at our stall. It was foolproof.
Yellow was the most popular colour.
Greetings and thanks.
cecilia