Quote from: George on January 02, 2012, 10:30 PM
Quote from: PaulP on January 02, 2012, 05:13 PM
I've made it to spec so far but I'm a bit concerned about the 2:1 ginger/garlic ratio making the base taste too gingery. I appreciate that mostly garlic is added during the final cooking of dishes (3:1 garlic/ginger) so this might even up the score. But I am tempted to use 1:1 g/g for the base just so I don't have to bin the lot. I'd appreciate any opinions on this as I've made meals inedible (for me anyway) in the past by using too much ginger, and of course it can't really be removed.
I think you need to have faith in the recipe, and the person who posted it, assuming it's been typed out accurately. Make it as written, not that I'd ever make such a industrial quantity; I'd pro-rata it back to a smaller amount, so there's less to lose. Unless anyone can make a really superb curry, how can you say in effect, that a recipe which promises so much is 'wrong' even before you've tried it?
You are quite right George and I did correct myself in my second post after imagining this amount of base, and onions and garlic and ginger and realising, from experience, that I needn't have worried. Regarding making a smaller amount I prefer to make 4 to 6 litres of base as there hasn't been a base recipe I've cooked that has been a total disaster.
Well there was one but the recipe was from a traditional indian book, not a forum recipe. I've had a lot of faith in ifindforu as I was prepared to risk his stuff sold on ebay including the ground up toenail clipping jokes.

Cheers,
Paul