Chocolate Cranberry Sourdough Bread aka Cocoa Craisin Bread If you think Sourdough bread should be made with just flour, water, salt, and starter. … just keep on looking. However, if you like an occasional walk on the wild side, maybe this bread will be up your alley. This bread has a lot of dark, rich chocolate taste in […]
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About our classic recipes Let me start out by saying that this IS a departure from the rest of the sourdough home page. Sourdough will be mentioned in passing, if at all. Some of the recipes will use bread, and I’ll suggest that a sourdough bread is the one to use. But, in truth, I
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Chicken Fried Steak, Texas Style I know that a Chicken Fried Steak is far, far, far from haute cuisine, but that’s not what the classic recipes pages are about in any case. They are about classic foods that satisfy, and that haven’t been done right in some time. It’s time to get back to the
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Yorkshire Pudding This is the classic companion dish to roast beef. To start with, it’s not a pudding, at least, not what most Americans think of as a pudding. As George Bernard Shaw commented, Great Britain and the USA are two countries kept apart by a language held in common. Life goes on. More important than
Cheesy Bread Pudding Revisiting recipes is a lot of fun. I was recently asked to bring something to a church potluck dinner and decided that cheesy bread pudding was it. This recipe was one of the first uses for bread posted on this web site, and it’s long been a family favorite. So, I printed
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Sourdough Blueberry Muffins Muffins, notwithstanding a bizarre song by the late Frank Zappa, are fine foods, and they are a great way to start a day, to brighten a covered dish function at work or church, or to just tell someone that you think they are special. Also, they are a great way to use up an extra cup or
Vital Wheat Gluten Vital Wheat Gluten is gluten that has been extracted from wheat. It is pure gluten. In our glutenphobic age, you might be wondering why anyone one want or use such a thing. There are a number of reasons… Vital wheat gluten helps breads, especially whole grains, rise better. We talk about
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Some Whole Wheat Bread Recipes Some of our friends just don’t like whole grains. We think we’d go mad if all we had to eat were plain white breads. Sure, we like baguettes, light French and Italian breads, and we’ve even been known to eat Wonder Bread. But, we grew up on rich, flavorful European
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Some White Bread Recipes These recipes are some of our favorite recipes that are based on white flour. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do. 101 – World Bread – a recipe from our rec.food.sourdough project 103 – D. Jason Penney’s Favorite White Bread – a decent white bread from our
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Some sweet bread recipes On this page, we’re listing some of our favorite sweet breads. Just in case you got here from a misguided search engine, we’re talking about breads that are sweet. Not dishes made thymus gland or pancreas of an animal younger than one year old. We don’t have anything against such dishes,
