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Bread
All Around Baking Mix
Jan 20th
When I became a vegetarian there weren’t a lot of good vegetarian cookbooks, plus most of them were for ovo-lacto vegetarians and I don’t eat eggs. For years I pined away, wishing I could make good muffins, cakes, pancakes, and the like. I tried all the egg replacers and found them to really be lacking. I did manage some decent treat using things like applesauce and yogurt, but sometimes I didn’t want their distinct flavors in what I was preparing.
Finally I began to play around with it myself and found that it is incredibly easy to make everything from cookies More >
How To Test Yeast
Dec 2nd
Mmmm, I can smell them already.
With the holidays just around the corner, many families have a tradition of a special homemade bread for holiday morning breakfast, like cinnamon rolls or stollen. Nothing casts a shadow over the day more quickly than preparing the dough for homemade cinnamon rolls and then uncovering it after it’s had time to rise, only to find a hard, flat lump in the bottom.
Here’s a very quick way to test yeast, that’s been setting around for some time, to see if it’s still viable.
- Place ¼ cup of warm water in a small bowl.
- Add 1 tsp sugar More >
Review: Sunbeam Bread Baker Model 5891
Jul 19th
Recently I purchased the above named bread machine. I wasn’t really expecting much, because the reviews were so mixed and the price was so reasonable. When it arrived it was properly packaged and everything seemed to be in order.
Upon looking at the instruction booklet it was obvious that it would be a simple machine to run with just a few steps to start it up. You need to pick the type of bread you’ll be baking, the size loaf, and the darkness of the crust, that’s it.
I had to wait a couple days after I got it to try it, More >
Understanding Whole-Wheat Flours
Apr 1st
Many of us we grew up on white flour everything, bread, cakes, cookies, pasta, etc. Now many people are trying to incorporate more whole foods into their diets. This means switching from white flour to whole wheat. However, the results are going to be very different when you start using whole-wheat flour. Knowing which flour to use can make all the difference in the world.
There are four kinds of whole-wheat flour:
- Hard Winter Wheat: Also called red winter wheat. This is the second hardest wheat kernel. It comes in fine, medium and coarse grinds. Fine works best for baked goods; breads, More >