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Quaker Oats: Best Banana Bread

It’s been a while since my last post, but I haven’t been idle; mead-making has been taking up most of my creative cycles. However, after hearing about the relative success of Operation Pantry Clearout, a friend recently unloaded the contents of her freezer on to me, which included a sizable…

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V January 31, 2017 February 3, 2017Bread baking, banana, bread, quaker oats, quick bread 0

Brew log: caramelizing honey for bochets (short comparison)

For this mini-experiment, I measured out exactly 4 pounds of Kirkland-brand honey into each of a large cookpot and the liner of my Instant Pot before I started, since I was aware that I would lose quite a lot of water to evaporation while cooking on the stovetop. After that,…

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V January 11, 2017 January 11, 2017Food bochet, brew log, brewing, caramelization, honey, mead 0

Allrecipes: Louise’s spiced applesauce bread, modified

I’m on a quest to use up pantry items and free up some space, while making tasty things while I’m at it. I have my eye on clearing out the space currently used by applesauce, because I honestly don’t use it that much on a day-to-day basis. Growing up, apples…

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V January 7, 2017 January 7, 2017Bread allrecipes, applesauce, baking, quick bread 0

Joy of Cooking: Seven-minute white icing

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…

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V January 2, 2017 January 2, 2017Icing cooked, dessert, egg white, frosting, icing, meringue 0

Joy of Cooking: Eight-yolk gold cake

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,…

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V January 1, 2017 January 1, 2017Cakes after pav, baking, cake, dessert, egg yolks, gold cake 0

Research on gluten-free flour mixes

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…

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V December 31, 2016 December 31, 2016Food baking, flour, gluten free, ratios 0

Brew log: monofloral traditional mead experiments

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…

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V December 27, 2016 January 12, 2017Mead brew log, brewing, experiment, honey, mead, monofloral 0

Joy of Baking: Angel food cake

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…

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V December 27, 2016 December 27, 2016Cakes angel food cake, cake, dairy free, Joy of Baking 0

Brew log: 2016 apricot melomel

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…

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V December 7, 2016 December 8, 2016Mead apricot, brew log, honey, mead, melomel, recipe 0

Taste of Southern: Skillet cornbread

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…

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V December 7, 2016 December 7, 2016Bread, Uncategorized baking, cornbread, quick bread, skillet, Taste of Southern 0
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