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Category Archives: Baking and Baked Goods
Making Croissants with King Arthur
Last weekend was packed with March Madness and SXSW, but when an email arrived announcing a last-minute opening in the Lofty Layers class at King Arthur Baking School everything else got pushed aside. The class had an unusual format: watch … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Cooking, Events
Tagged croissant, King Arthur, kouighn amann, pain de chocolat
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Recipe: New Haven-Style Clam and Lemon Pizza
Clam and Lemon Pizza doesn’t claim to duplicate the legendary Frank Pepe’s clam pie, but finely diced seeded lemon makes up very nicely for the lack of fresh clams from Long Island Sound. Use preserved lemons if you got ‘em, … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Eating, Recipes
Tagged Frank Pepe, New Haven, pandemic, pizza
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Recipe: Extra-Tangy Sourdough Bread
Extra-Tangy Sourdough is based on this recipe from King Arthur Flour; our ingredients are the same but the method is somewhat different. If you follow our bread recipes you’ll notice some similarities to our Instant Pot bread: the hydration is … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Eating, Recipes
Tagged King Arthur, Larraburu, San Francisco, sourdough
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Food for Thought: The Casual Sourdough Baker
The King Arthur Flour website is always a good resource for recipes and baking tips, but PJ Hamel’s blog The Casual Sourdough Baker is especially welcome in these times. As she puts it, “I’ve always been a rather casual baker. … Continue reading
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Tagged King Arthur Flour, pandemic, sourdough
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Recipe: Covid Pizza Dough
Covid Pizza Dough won’t give you Covid, nor will it cure Covid as far as I know. The title reflects the stultifying new normal when the days run together and you are too lazy to go upstairs where you keep … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Eating, Recipes
Tagged Frank Pepe, jon in albany, pandemic, pizza
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What happened to your sourdough starter in 2020?
As we sweep 2020 into the trash bin of history, one of the year’s less serious losses is likely to be ignored: all the sourdough starters that folks initiated as a quarantine activity, then abandoned because they weren’t successful or … Continue reading
Food for Thought: Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine
We purchased a used copy of the 1991 edition of Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine soon after acquiring a closeout bread machine circa 2010. The recipes were creative and the several that we executed turned out well. In … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Cooking, Food for Thought
Tagged Ashland, bread, bread machine
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Recipe: Bread Machine Basic White Bread
This recipe for bread machine basic white bread is from the 1991 edition of the Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine cookbook (updated version available here). It made a perfect loaf for Thanksgiving turkey leftover sandwiches with Durkee’s dressing … Continue reading
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Tagged bread machine, Thanksgiving, white bread
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Recipe: Italian Deli-Style Hoagie Rolls
These Italian deli-style hoagie rolls started with a recipe on the highly enjoyable Wood Fired Kitchen blog. We made extensive changes to the technique, but kept a couple of secret ingredients which the author says came from Conshohocken Bakery in … Continue reading
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Tagged grinder, hoagie, Philly, sub
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Make your own pumpkin pie spice
Pumpkin pie spice is the key flavoring for pumpkin pie and other autumnal delicacies, since pumpkin doesn’t have much taste on its own. (Which is why it’s interesting that people panicked about not being able to find canned pumpkin during … Continue reading
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Tagged Election, Halloween, pandemic, Thanksgiving
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