I was looking forward to teaching the kids in my food appreciation classes about the simplest kind of Irish soda bread baked in a cast-iron pot. But then my wife steered me toward this recipe, which is a more Americanized take on the the classic, including two kinds of flour, a little egg, raisins and […]
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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 […]
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