Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
20140208 white sandwich bread Made a couple of loaves of white bread today. I made the bread of top, the BLT is made with that bread in the middle, and the bottom pic is Grace’s bread — it has a crack because Grace didn’t score the bread. Her bread was more flavorful because she […]
20140206 white chocolate chip cookies Made white chocolate chip cookies, essentially following this recipe: http://cookiesandcups.com/the-best-white-chocolate-chip-cookies/ makes 36 cookies Ingredients 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 cup light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 3 eggs 1 1/2 Tablespoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 2 1/2 […]
botched saltines to biscuits So, once per day, in three consecutive days starting on Thursday 20140130, I made saltines-turned-bland-biscuits, nutty biscuits, and sweet biscuits. Following the success with the cheesy crackers, I wanted to turn my attention to non-cheesy crackers, starting with the humble saltine. I thought I was starting to get the hang of […]
cheesy crackers 3 Finally succeeded in making an actual cracker! Original post and first attempt here:baked cheese. After reading and standing on the shoulders of the trials of this writer: http://www.twincities.com/restaurants/ci_24521969/homemade-crackers-quest-crispy-crunchy-savory-snacks I decided to try rolling it again, this time, more thinly. It said that the thickness of the dough was the key difference between a […]
Baking With Julia – Pumpernickel Bread & Matzos with Lauren Groveman http://www.wgby.org/episode/5595 Saw this and had to record it somewhere. How to make pumpernickel (by hand) and matzos (jewish crispy flatbread?). -Isaac
http://www.joepastry.com Probably one of the most comprehensive bread and pastry resource I’ve encountered on the web. Especially: http://www.joepastry.com/joes-recipes/ Which is an index with complete recipes for many, many baked goods. Thanks Grace!