The baking lessons in our food appreciation classes turn to making quick breads and teaching kids the difference between yeasted breads and those made with a chemical rise. Not everyone has time to wait for yeast to work its magic on bread. Hence bakers turn to a chemical reaction between a dry ingredient such as […]
Earlier I described trying to decode my grandmother’s recipe for butter chew cookies and I know you have all been on pins and needles waiting to learn the final formula we used in our baking appreciation classes this week. Here goes… This is a two-step baking process. First you make a dough that will form an […]
Kids turned out in droves for the first of my new “baking appreciation” classes. They’ve longed for something sweet instead of those nasty old vegetables we usually cook all the time. Since I’m not a professional baker, I was looking for something fairly simple but also seasonal and appropriate as a dessert for tonight’s parents […]
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