Our passion is great bread!
I needed some crystallized ginger for a festive recipe I was planning to make this weekend. However, the price of the crystallized ginger in the markets just didn’t appeal to me. I don’t know about you, but there are some ingredients I’m just not willing to use due to the cost.However, I found a recipe for making candied ginger in one of my canning books
Semolina Bread is one of the breads we made for the Mellow Bakers group this month. I like Semolina Bread especially Pane Siciliano so I was all over this one. I had the dough made and the loaves shaped and placed in the refrigerator overnight to retard. Then, I went to the Mellow Bakers’ forum to read what the other bakers had to say about
I wanted to make something special for the December tigress can jam. The theme for this month is dried fruit. It took me a little while, but I finally found a festive recipe that included dried fruit. This particular recipe uses fresh fruit and dried golden raisins. I think you’ll like it. These Spiced Cranberry Preserves go well with ice cream, frozen yogurt, cake or
It’s December! You know what that means…it’s time for Holiday baking. The Holidays are such a great time for baking, but then anytime is a great time for baking as far as I’m concerned. The BYOB bakers have been baking all year long so this gives us another good excuse to bake bread and other delicious treats. Bake Your Own Bread (BYOB) is a yearlong
For the December 1st Bread Braid, the HBinFive Bakers made Stollen. I’ve made Stollen a few times so I decided to experiment with this one. I really enjoyed the BBA Stollen, however, this time, I wanted to use the Healthy Bread in Five method and a good portion of whole wheat flour so I took what I liked from both recipes and came up with
