You know how I said in my notes for the eight-yolk gold cake that I wasn’t going to make this? I lied. I was out of icing sugar to make the glaze I had in mind, so when I found a carton of pasteurized egg whites in my fridge, I…
Invariably, after making an angel food cake, the pressing question becomes “what do I do with all of these yolks?” Usually the answer is some form of custard; for me, it’s David Lebovitz’s vanilla ice cream recipe. This time, I didn’t have the cream on hand to make ice cream,…
Forever ago, I found a chart that listed all of the readily available non-wheat flours and their properties, for the purpose of helping people bake gluten-free things more easily. I can’t find that chart, so I’m looking around for other options now, and here’s what I’ve found so far. Between…
I started a parallel set of one-gallon batches the other day, keeping the recipes constant but the type of honey used different, specifically for the purpose of seeing how the different honeys ended up developing over time. On the first day, I put together the musts with the following recipe: 4…
Every now and then, the seemingly random urge strikes me to make an angel food cake. There’s no obvious trigger for it, and in fact I feel like it’s a little silly to bake something during this season of excess, but I heard the call when some friends were over…
I started this one a couple of weeks ago and probably let it sit longer in the fermenting bucket than I should have, but the airlock showed active fermentation longer than I expected it to go, and I forgot about it for a few days after that. I haven’t yet…
For the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about Southern food. It started when I found a smoked pork hock at my nearby grocery store, which was unusual enough for them to carry that I took notice of it the next few times I was shopping and finally bought after…
This recipe by Joe Mattioli from the Got Mead? forums is the one usually recommended to any eager newbie asking what to make, and that’s because it gives you a tolerably tasty result in a fairly short time using only ingredients and supplies from your local grocery store. This process…
Today the fridge decided not to work. This was a situation no doubt aided by the fact that the edge of a block of butter had prevented the freezer from closing completely, leading to the fridge’s cold air intake frosting over. After getting all of the perishables into a cooler…
Hey, come on — don’t laugh at me. I know that all of the with-it food bloggers have moved on to newer, hipper, underexposed sources for their recipes, but this is my recipe book, not a place to prove my hipster cred. A long-time friend introduced me to these cookies…