Here are some differences I have found so far:
- measuring. Here they weigh many ingredients like flour and sugar. I got slightly confused as to why my plastic measuring cup had different lines for flour and sugar until I realized that the measurements were for weight, and not milliliters.
- baking soda and powder. First, baking soda is not really used here. Luckily, one of my German friends helped me find it. Both baking soda and baking powder come in little packages, and then recipes call for 1 package of "backpulver" (baking powder). A package of baking powder is 15 g or 3 tsp.
- vanilla. Vanilla here also comes in little packages. It comes as vanilla sugar. This was an easy adjustment as well, because I just added the vanilla sugar with the sugar in my muffins.
- eggs. When you buy eggs in the grocery store they aren't in the fridge. I guess they don't wash them before you get them, but then they say to put them in the fridge when you get home. Also, I swear there are 3 different dates on them, and I don't know what they each mean. Finally, they come in 10s, not in dozens.
- milk. Coming from Canada, where in a grocery store you have a choice of different brands, different sizes and different types of milk, here it feels like you barely get a choice. Milk is bought in 1 L tetrapacks, and you can get full fat, 1.5 % and I think one in between. The one option here that is not at home is whether you get fresh milk or H-milk. Fresh milk is what we get at home, and is always in the fridge and has a short expiry date. H-milk is ultra high temperature milk and doesn't have to be in the fridge until it's opened. It also can be kept (before opening) for a few months. Nice for me, when I went grocery shopping with a friend I bought a 12 L case since she had a car :)
- packaging. Here the largest package of flour I have seen is 1 kg. Any brown flour or specialty flour comes in smaller bags. It's the same thing for sugar and even milk.
- brown sugar. Doesn't seem to exist here. Finally today I bought some raw sugar called "brauner zucker" and used that.
- things I can't find. So far on top of brown sugar I can't find vinegar, bran, wheat germ or chocolate chips (I had to buy a bar of chocolate and cut it up). Funny because this place seems to be crazy about chocolate, and there is a huge section devoted to chocolate in the stores. Yet not in the form of chips.
OK, muffins are done, and are very yummy!
- baking soda and powder. First, baking soda is not really used here. Luckily, one of my German friends helped me find it. Both baking soda and baking powder come in little packages, and then recipes call for 1 package of "backpulver" (baking powder). A package of baking powder is 15 g or 3 tsp.
- vanilla. Vanilla here also comes in little packages. It comes as vanilla sugar. This was an easy adjustment as well, because I just added the vanilla sugar with the sugar in my muffins.
- eggs. When you buy eggs in the grocery store they aren't in the fridge. I guess they don't wash them before you get them, but then they say to put them in the fridge when you get home. Also, I swear there are 3 different dates on them, and I don't know what they each mean. Finally, they come in 10s, not in dozens.
- milk. Coming from Canada, where in a grocery store you have a choice of different brands, different sizes and different types of milk, here it feels like you barely get a choice. Milk is bought in 1 L tetrapacks, and you can get full fat, 1.5 % and I think one in between. The one option here that is not at home is whether you get fresh milk or H-milk. Fresh milk is what we get at home, and is always in the fridge and has a short expiry date. H-milk is ultra high temperature milk and doesn't have to be in the fridge until it's opened. It also can be kept (before opening) for a few months. Nice for me, when I went grocery shopping with a friend I bought a 12 L case since she had a car :)
- packaging. Here the largest package of flour I have seen is 1 kg. Any brown flour or specialty flour comes in smaller bags. It's the same thing for sugar and even milk.
- brown sugar. Doesn't seem to exist here. Finally today I bought some raw sugar called "brauner zucker" and used that.
- things I can't find. So far on top of brown sugar I can't find vinegar, bran, wheat germ or chocolate chips (I had to buy a bar of chocolate and cut it up). Funny because this place seems to be crazy about chocolate, and there is a huge section devoted to chocolate in the stores. Yet not in the form of chips.
OK, muffins are done, and are very yummy!
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