baking

Flaky Pie or Tart Dough

January 15, 2010

If you have a food processor, making pie crust is very easy. If not, it’s a little more difficult (but still not so hard). I have tried many different recipes, but prefer the ones that don’t use shortening (or lard, of course!), so when I found an all butter crust in The Art and Soul [...]

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Amish White Bread

October 25, 2009

I decided that instead of buying bread made with high fructose corn syrup I would make my own. How hard could that be? It happened to be very easy, until it came time to shape the loaves; the first time I made them they looked a little funny, but the bread tasted great! It was [...]

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Challah

August 7, 2009

After many years of finding challah recipes from books, cookbooks, and online, I finally found the best recipe. My cousin Sally gave it to me a while ago, but I was skeptical to use a recipe that used an entire 5-pound bag of flour. It was worth it; everyone at the shabbat table loved it, [...]

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Vanilla

July 31, 2009

Real vanilla extract is so expensive, and imitation vanilla is no substitute for the real thing, so now we make our own. All you need is some vanilla beans and some alcohol.

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