This is an oatmeal bread recipe that I found on the King Arthur Flour website. I’ve tinkered with the ingredients because that’s what I do AND because we weigh everything that gets baked in our house. It’s more efficient and it’s more accurate. I just put the mixing bowl on…
The wild raspberries are ripe! We found them first at Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park and then in the woods, across the street from my daughter’s house in Sandy Spring! I couldn’t resist. I do not like picking berries in the fields — too many relapses of childhood memories growing up working…
Here’s my recipe for a naturally fermented, traditional ginger beer that has beneficial probiotics and enzymes. The recipe makes use of a ginger bug instead of dumping a bunch of bread yeast into your soda. I think the bread yeast flavor really comes through in the finished product and overwhelms the ginger….
This widely known Cornell bread recipe is high in protein with its nutritionally enriched combination of flours. It was created in the 1940s to act as a staple in the low-cost diets of the days of war rationing. The nutritional merits are important, but what fueled the popularity of the…
Making homemade cider vinegar these days is harder than it used to be. Because of food additives and preservatives, our beverages won’t sour and turn to vinegar. So we launch another vinegar experiment. This is a bottle of organic cider purchased from Whole Foods. I pitched it with one…
Tried another homemade bread recipe last night. Here’s the recipe I used with my alterations. I convert everything to weight before starting a new recipe. I guess that comes from living with a pastry chef! Tassajara Yeasted White Bread From the book The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown…
This is a recipe that I found on the King Arthur Flour website. It works. I’m learning that some of the other recipes that I was using and getting poor results were because they didn’t have enough water in them. Especially when using whole wheat flour–this stuff takes a lot…