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Last night I was watching a cooking video and the lady made Air Fryer Pretzel Bites. They looked easy to make and they looked delicious so this morning, right after breakfast, I made them. I didn’t spend a lot of time rolling them into a nice, uniform log before cutting them. I’m more of a...

Vince unpacked a box that had been in his shop and it had several cookbooks in it. One is a cookbook from a church I had attended while living in Louisiana. Those types of cookbooks always have the best recipes. There were several Popeye’s copycat biscuit recipes. This cookbook was published in the late 1990’s...

With all the canning going on, I haven’t been baking much. I’ll make a plain, easy, quick loaf of bread every few 4 or 5 days but other than that, I haven’t baked much. Today when I finished up the last project for Every Bit Counts, I wanted to bake something. Anything. I had been...

My goal is to be using no storebought flour by the end of the year. I want to be able to grind 100% of the flour we use from the various grains we keep on hand. I’m not sure I’ll ever be as confident using whole grains. With all purpose or bread flour, I can...

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I’m going to do several posts because I really spent a lot of time in the kitchen today. Yesterday I got up and felt kinda wimpy. I went out to water and decided I was feeling worse so I went inside, got back in bed, took a long nap but never did really feel better....

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Yesterday I made two loaves of Japanese Milk Bread. The recipe calls for making two loaves but I’ve almost always made three smaller loaves and they work better for us. Yesterday I was also making rye bread and since I mostly use the wall oven, I can only bake three loaves in there at once...

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about making more corned beef to can. My big decision was to figure out whether to can it in pints or quarts. I knew pints would be ok for making corned beef with eggs or corned beef with potatoes but for sandwiches, I wasn’t sure. Before,...

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We haven’t had a bacon, egg and biscuits breakfast in a while. I’ve been sticking with the one meal a day and it’s been working for me. We like to eat breakfast around 10 and then I don’t get hungry again til way late in the day and I don’t like eating late so I...

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I’ve talked about the Japanese Milk Bread here before. This is the recipe I use. I do not use bread flour. I mill hard white wheat and sift it but if I’m in a big hurry, I will use all purpose flour. I also don’t use dough enhancer. I don’t even have it here but...

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Late last week I made loaf bread – the Oatmeal Toasting Bread that makes three loaves. I took one to a friend and got this note back from her. Yesterday morning I looked at our menu for the week and baked the rolls and buns we’ll need for the week. I ground 4-1/2 cups of...

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This morning I wanted to make biscuits using spelt. The Essential Home-Ground Flour book by Sue Becker is so useful for those of us who like milling our flours. Thumbing through the book, I found three biscuit recipes that I could use. One was more traditional – grated cold butter, buttermilk and other “normal” ingredients....

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There are so many bread recipes we love but I end up making the same ones over and over. For probably more than 10 years, I’ve made Oatmeal Toasting Bread a couple of times a month. This Russian Black Bread is near the top of my list too. I like it with ham, turkey and...

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Sometimes I start blog posts and don’t finish them, then I can’t remember if I added the info to another blog post or not so . . if you’ve already read this, chalk it up to old age and forgetfulness. I did go back and didn’t see it on other posts but I could have...

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Baking your own sourdough bread can be a fulfilling and delicious experience. On and off for over a decade, I have been making sourdough bread. I recently decided to start milling my own flour. This is a new experience for me and I am excited to share the journey and insights I have gained in the process. With the help of some organic hard white wheat berries, a healthy homemade sourdough starter, and a few simple steps, I have been able to produce artisanal, homemade sourdough bread with unique flavors and textures. I have made almost a dozen loaves of ...

Baking with wild yeast has been a tradition for centuries, and it is a great way to make delicious, artisan-style breads. Sourdough starters created with wild yeast are particularly special, as the living organisms in the starter create a unique flavor and texture. Making a sourdough starter with wild yeast requires patience and knowledge, but the results are worth it. In this blog post, we will discuss the process and tips for starting a wild yeast sourdough starter, so you can make your own artisan breads at home. With some practice and attention to ...

Yesterday was bread making day. I’ve mentioned before about how much I love the Japanese Milk Bread. I love the dough. I love kneading and working with the dough. I love the texture and taste of the bread. The recipe I use makes two loaves. I’ve been thinking that dough would make excellent cinnamon rolls...

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As Thanksgiving approaches, I’m always looking for the best roll recipe. Having homemade rolls is about my favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal. On one of the Facebook groups I’m in, people were raving about this recipe – Fluffy Bread Machine Rolls. It was in one of the milling groups and people are using 1/2...

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This morning I cooked breakfast and I told Vince . . I’m not planning on cooking anything else today. He said “We’re almost out of bread!” He had told me that yesterday and I told him I’d make bread “tomorrow” and forgot so I asked what kind of bread he wanted and, in typical Vince...

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A week or so I tried a starter for salt rising bread and it didn’t work. The starter is stirred together on the evening before the bread is made. The next day, the dough has to be made, kneaded, let rest, kneaded more, shaped into loaves, let rise for 1-1/2 to 3 hours, and then...

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Thursday night I ground the hard red wheat for the Whole Wheat 5 Grain Bread. Yesterday I ground the hard white and rye, dumped everything in the mixer but . . wait . . where was my vital wheat gluten? I almost always use that, along with lecithin when making bread from home milled flour....

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