Big Batch Sugar Cookies in the Bosch Universal

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Jim — 6 Comments ↓

Let’s make some sugar cookies!

12 C flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1.5 tablespoon baking powder
4 C butter
4 C sugar
4 eggs
4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoon either lemon, orange or almond extracts
1 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350° degrees F. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla and other extracts.

Sift, then mix dry ingredients and add to butter mixture. Mix well.

Chill for 1 to 2 hours. Roll to 1/4″ thickness and cut into desired shapes. Bake 8 to 10 min.

Cool.

Can be decorated with colored sugars before baking or iced with royal icing afterwards. Use your imagination decorating these.

To freeze: divide dough into approximately 4 rounds and wrap tightly in waxed paper then over wrap in moisture/vapor proof. You can freeze the rounds on a tray then vacuum seal the frozen rounds

Submitted by Miss Vi & the Duckies

Procedure using the Bosch Universal

4 cups butter
(use the pulse feature to start mixing)

Sugar mixed with butter:

Butter and sugar after 3 minutes of creaming: The creamed butter and sugar

Getting ready to change to the dough hook to mix in the flour: Getting ready to switch to the Bosch dough hook to mix in the flour

Adding 12 cups flour using splash ring:

Finished dough:

Creamsicle-Dreamsicle Cheesecake

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Jim — No Comments ↓

Orange Chiffon Cheesecake

This is a light ‘n fluffy cheesecake based on my Lemon Chiffon Cheesecake. There is also a Lime version. See my newly updated post: Variations on a Theme – Chiffon Cheesecakes for more info on this cheesecake and links to all versions.

1 13.5 oz box graham cracker crumbs
2 sticks butter
2 cups sugar
8 oz cream cheese
9 oz orange Jell-o
1-2 tsp vanilla extract (to taste)
1 1/3 cup water (approximately – see instructions)
2 cans cream (evaporated milk)
2 medium oranges, juiced and zested (zested with a [easyazon-link asin=”B00004S7V8″ locale=”us”]microplane[/easyazon-link])
2 medium oranges, zested (zested with an older [easyazon-link asin=”B00004OCJO” locale=”us”]zester[/easyazon-link] that produces strips)
2 T sugar

Refrigerate cans of cream and mixing bowl and mixer beaters.

Melt butter and prepare crumb-crust according to package directions. Press into bottom of a [easyazon-link keywords=”12 18 pan” locale=”us”]12 x 18 inch roasting pan[/easyazon-link]. Refrigerate.

Place strained orange juice in measuring cup and fill with water to 1 1/3 cups. Boil. Add vanilla. Fully dissolve Jell-O in the water and juice. Set aside to cool.

Beat together cream cheese, sugar and orange zest.

After Jello-O has cooled slightly, but well before it is set, mix with the cream cheese mixture.

Remove cold bowl and cream from refrigerator and whip as you would heavy whipping cream. You will not quite manage stiff peaks, but you should get close.

Fold the cream into the lemon mixture until there are no streaks remaining. Pour into crust and refrigerate.

Toss together the orange zest strips and the sugar. Sprinkle zest strips over the finished cheesecake.

Lining the pan with parchment paper will keep the crust from sticking to the pan:

Cream cheese, sugar and orange zest:

The orange gelatin ready to cool:

Combining the gelatin and cream cheese:

Whipping the evaporated milk in my Bosch mixer:

The evaporated milk will not quite reach stiff peaks, but will be nicely stiffened:

Fold together the whipped milk and the gelatin mixture:

Ready for the topping:

Strips of zest and sugar:

Toss together the sugar and zest and allow to sit a few minutes:

Artistically sprinkle the sugared zest over the cheesecake:

Bosch Universal Potato Peeling Bowl

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Jim — No Comments ↓

Bosch has made some interesting attachments for the [easyazon-link keywords=”Bosch Universal Mixer” locale=”us”]Universal mixer[/easyazon-link] over the years. In a previous post, I put up some scans of the food mill / strainer. Today we have some pictures of the potato peeling bowl. Not just for potatoes, the bowl will peel other hard vegetables.

You add water and vegetables to the bowl, turn on the mixer and let it run. The disc in the bottom of the bowl turns ‘round and ‘round. The abrasives on the disc and bowl sides scrub off the peels into the water.

It’s not perfect, of course. It can’t dig out an eye for you, but it does a pretty good job.

You can find the manual here: Potato Peeling Bowl Manual.

The bowl, peeling disc and lid:

The black around that center post is a seal to keep the water in the bowl:

The assembled potato peeling bowl:

It says: “Germany Importe D’Allemagne” … Google Translate tells me that’s “Imports from Germany” and the language is French … why French text on the bottom of an attachment for a German mixer? Does that mean my bowl came to the US from France?

Bosch Mixer Manufacturing Dates

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jim — 5 Comments ↓

When was your mixer made?

Did you ever wonder when Bosch made your mixer? It’s been a topic of discussion on the Mixer-Owners Yahoo Group recently, with some talk back and forth with the Bosch importer, L’Equip.

On the bottom of your mixer, you should find a sticker with an “FD Number.” It will be in the form of the letters “FD” followed by 4 numbers: FDxxxx.

The last two numbers correspond to the month the mixer was made. 01 would be January, 12 would be December. That’s the simple part. To determine the year requires math.

The math goes something like this: add 20 to the first two numbers in the “FD Number” and the last two numbers of that number correspond to the last two numbers of the year. Got that?

Let’s take FD7909 as an example. 79 + 20 is 99, so FD7909 was made in September of 1999.

How about FD9104? 91 + 20 is 110, so we take only the last two numbers and come up with 2010. FD9104 was made in April of 2010.

I don’t like math. Never did. Let’s make a chart!

Note: I continued this chart back to 1980 and forward to 2019. There was a model change in 1984, so it makes sense that this chart will not be accurate before 1984, and, of course, I can’t guarantee it will be accurate in the future.

FD Number	Year of Manufacture

FD60xx	1980
FD61xx	1981
FD62xx	1982
FD63xx	1983
FD64xx	1984
FD65xx	1985
FD66xx	1986
FD67xx	1987
FD68xx	1988
FD69xx	1989
FD70xx	1990
FD71xx	1991
FD72xx	1992
FD73xx	1993
FD74xx	1994
FD75xx	1995
FD76xx	1996
FD77xx	1997
FD78xx	1998
FD79xx	1999
FD80xx	2000
FD81xx	2001
FD82xx	2002
FD83xx	2003
FD84xx	2004
FD85xx	2005
FD86xx	2006
FD87xx	2007
FD88xx	2008
FD89xx	2009
FD90xx	2010
FD91xx	2011
FD92xx	2012
FD93xx	2013
FD94xx	2014
FD95xx	2015
FD96xx	2016
FD97xx	2017
FD98xx	2018
FD99xx	2019

Bosch Universal Mini Dough Hook for the Slicer-Shredder Bowl

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Jim — No Comments ↓

L’Equip has released a new dough hook for Bosch’s Slicer-Shredder Bowl. You can already mix light batters in the slicer-shredder bowl using the [easyazon-link keywords=”bosch ts5 whisk” locale=”us”]mini whisk[/easyazon-link] assembly; now dough has moved to the small bowl.

I decided to take it for a test drive on some pizza dough. The recipe is a variation on Alton Brown’s pizza dough:

3/4 cup water
2 cups bread flour
2 T sugar
2 t salt
1 T yeast
2 T olive oil

I throw everything into the bowl and after it comes together, set the timer for 12 minutes and walk away.

If you want to watch the full-length, shot-from-above video from start to finish you can see it here.

Motion-Blur for fun:

Pizza dough finished kneading:

The finished dough ball:

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Big Batch Sugar Cookies in the Bosch Universal

Let’s make some sugar cookies!

Procedure using the Bosch Universal

Creamsicle-Dreamsicle Cheesecake

Orange Chiffon Cheesecake

Bosch Universal Potato Peeling Bowl

Bosch Mixer Manufacturing Dates

FD Number

Year of Manufacture

Bosch Universal Mini Dough Hook for the Slicer-Shredder Bowl

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