Kneading the Bread

In the eighth grade I started baking bread as a school project. I baked a different kind of bread every week for six weeks, took pictures of the bread and wrote a report. I've been baking ever since. This blog is a record of my bread baking from when my first grandson, now thirteen, was a little boy until now.

Saturday, January 22, 2022

A Rye Bread Year

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When I was a little girl in the 50s, my family was traditional for that time. My mother did all the cooking and the shopping and only on rar...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Making M'smen from Hot Bread Kitchen

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 Food52 named the Hot Bread Kitchen cookbook as the best in all the land in May, 2020. I own all of the cookbooks they referenced for this ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Pain de Campagnard - Rustic, Countryman's Bread from Beth Hensperger

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So here's my third use of sourdough with the help of Beth Hensperger. I decided to try her rustic country bread. The recipe calls for wh...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Beth Hensperger's Pain de Seigle

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When I was little, sometimes my father would go to the grocery store where he always indulged his wishes. He would come home not only with w...

Beth Hensperger's Pain de Campagne

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Using my mother's sourdough starter paired with the deeply complex flavors generated in most of Beth Hensperger's recipes makes me v...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Popovers from Sourdough Starter

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Delicious concoctions can be made with sourdough starter, left in the container after you have made bread. These recipes use unfed starter. ...

A Sourdough Starter Story

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My mother ordered 100-year-old sourdough starter from San Francisco when I was 15. She shared it with me when I left home so I could cont...
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