Fascinating Denver Facts

If you haven’t lived at a higher altitude before, the first time you try an old souffl recipe will likely be quite a shock. Cooking times and proportions of ingredients may need to be adjusted.

The main reason is the great difference in air pressure. Water that boils at 212 degrees at sea level boils at 202 degrees in Denver. Foods will be cooking at lower temperatures, so their cooking times will be longer. The decrease in pressure also causes baked goods to rise faster, so less leavening is needed.

Angel food, chiffon and sponge cakes these types of cakes are the most difficult to adjust. Contact Xcel energy (see below) for a tested recipe.

Cakes Cakes made by creaming sugar and shortening need careful adjustments. Reduce the sugar called for in the recipe by three tablespoons per cup.

Cookies For cake type cookies, such as brownies, reduce sugar by three tablespoons per cup in the recipe. For drop cookies, test bake two or three. If they flatten too much, add two to four tablespoons of flour. Pressed cookies, such as Spritz, may require less flour.

Meats, fruits and vegetables- Meat roasting times and temperatures need no adjustment. Some vegetables may take longer to bake.

Pie Crust- Pie crusts may require slightly more liquid, but are baked at the same temperature.

Quick Breads Adjustments are not always necessary. If needed, use the sugar reduction adjustments recommended for cakes.

Yeast Breads- Breads require a shorter rising time and should rise only until double in bulk. Use slightly less flour because flour is drier at high altitudes.

For more information, contact Xcel Energy of Colorado; 550 15th Street, Denver, CO 80202; (303) 623-1234

Denver is the only city of its size that supports 5 national sports franchises in football, hockey, basketball, baseball, and soccer.

Denver can improve your golf game; our altitude makes golf balls travel 10% farther than at sea level.

DIA contains $7.5 million in artwork, making it the country’s largest public art program at a single facility.

“It only snows when Bronco games are nationally televised”- Denver actually logs more than 300 sunny days a year, more than Honolulu, Miami or San Diego.

Metro Denver’s over 2 million inhabitants support more sporting goods stores per capita than anywhere else.

The Denver Performing Arts Complex, which contains the 2,800-seat Temple Hoyne Buell Theater, has the U.S.’s second largest seating capacity.

During their inaugural 1993 season, the Colorado Rockies shattered major league baseball attendance records. Close to 4.5 million fans attended home games, averaging 56,750 per game.

One of Denver’s top tourist attractions, upscale Cherry Creek Mall, attracts 16 million shoppers a year.

Denver has the second highest number of college graduates per capita in the country (2nd to Washington, D.C.)

Cheers! Denver is the self proclaimed “Brew Pub Capital of the Nation.” More beer is produced in Colorado than in any other state, and all of it is made in the Denver area.

Denver maintains its own buffalo herd descended from the last wild bison in the U.S., at Daniels Park.
The National Western Stock Show is the world’s largest rodeo and stock sale. Cowboy boots are always appropriate in Denver, even at the theatre.
The top tourism market for Colorado and Denver is Colorado residents themselves.

The 100-year-old Brown Palace Hotel has hosted the likes of President Eisenhower and the Beatles. Try afternoon tea in its eight-story atrium lobby.

Ten ski areas are within 90 minutes of Denver.

With more than 400,000 volumes on four floors, Denver’s Tattered Cover ranks as the largest independent bookstore in the U.S.

Denver has more open space and parks than any other city in the world.