Category: Baking

Making Self-Rising Flour

I buy all-purpose flour. By adding vital wheat gluten I can make bread flour. Today a recipe my wife wanted to make called for self-rising flour, so I had to go look up how to make it. In short it’s a cup (120 grams) of flour and 6 grams...

Banana Bread

Who doesn’t love banana bread? Er…well…who doesn’t love a way to get rid of those bananas that have gotten to the point where most are scared to eat them?...

Sourdough Ciabatta

Not gonna lie to you — this is hard to work with. Have a mixer. Have some bench scrapers. Have some flour. Have some patience. But delicious and well worth the pain and suffering. Tools Kneading and Shaping I like this plastic bowl-scraper / bench-knife for doing my stretches...

Orange Bars

We’ve got a couple of orange trees that about every other year yield a metric shit-ton of oranges. This is one such year....

Severed Finger Cookies

Being Halloween I really should’ve made these instead of the brownie cookies but oh well. Had this recipe around forever. Used to make it every year to take to the office....