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Category Archives: Baking and Baked Goods
Recipe: Pecan Pie a la Highland Park Cafeteria
It’s generally agreed that the delicious Highland Park Cafeteria pecan pie follows the recipe on the label of Karo Light Corn Syrup. My modest enhancement is to tweak the handling of the pecans and add a few extra nuts. Makes … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Eating, Recipes, Sweets
Tagged Dallas, Highland Park Cafeteria, Texas
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Recipe: Southern-Style Cornbread
No wheat flour is found in southern-style cornbread. No sugar neither. (Though you may drizzle a bit of honey or sorghum syrup over a warm slice.) We just use stone ground cornmeal which is naturally good and sweet. Bob’s Red … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Recipes, Sides
Tagged Dallas, Highland Park Cafeteria, Southern
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Recipe: Boston Brown Bread with Sourdough
This is a “thirded” Boston brown bread, meaning it is made with equal amounts of whole wheat and rye flours and cornmeal because wheat was too scarce and expensive to use on its own in colonial times. It is cooked … Continue reading
Recipe: Acme Cheese Wheels
These are “Acme” Cheese Wheels in the dictionary sense, as in “ultimate” or “peak”. But they’re also very close to the cheese wheels served by Acme Bakery out of their Ferry Plaza shop in San Francisco. Makes a dozen individual … Continue reading
Recipe: Josey Baker’s Everything Bread
Everything Bread captures the garlicky, seed-y essence of an everything bagel but with the added tang of Josey Baker’s sourdough. Josey gave me some clues about the preparation; I guessed the rest and think I got pretty close to what … Continue reading
Recipe: Digger Bread
Welcome to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco. The other day I drove past the Panhandle, a mile long grassy strip where the Diggers gave away bread to keep people nourished while they were grooving. … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Recipes
Tagged 1960s, Hippies, San Francisco, Summer of love
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Recipe: Leftover Banana Bread
The Eagle Brand condensed milk adds a nice richness to this leftover banana bread. A good thing to make after the holidays when you discover lots of blackened bananas lurking in the corners of your refrigerator. Makes 1 big loaf. … Continue reading
Recipe: Accident Bread
Accident Bread happened because I was experimenting with Sirvinta wheat, a heritage grain I picked up at the Maine Kneading Conference. I was under the impression it was a high extraction flour but the resulting dough was quite different than expected. … Continue reading
Recipe: Election Cake
U.S. Election Day in the early years of our Republic was a happy and festive occasion. Election Cake was served as a reward for voting or simply to celebrate democracy. A number of bakers are offering it this year to encourage … Continue reading
Posted in Baking and Baked Goods, Recipes, Sweets
Tagged Election Cake, Owl Bakery, Richard Miscovich
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