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Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal focuses on homemade baked goods and sweets of all kinds; anything that falls into the category of the "baking and pastry arts." Recipes are included in most posts, as are many links to blogs and websites on related topics; books on baking are also highlighted in sidebars. Includes food photos and "recipe process photos."
I grew up in a household where bread, however abundant, was not typically served as an everyday accompaniment to dinner. Rolls were presented with special meals, but that was about it.When I got married, though, my husband always liked having bread o (read full article)
"Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread. Without it, it's flat." -- Carmen Macrae, (1820-1994) jazz singer and pianistIn culinary school, this short spring semester, I'm taking an artisan breads class. Kind of a crash course, it's ten weeks wor (read full article)
The last few days have been bittersweet, as a very important member of our family passed away on the 26th. My father-in-law, known to us lovingly as Grandpa Joe, left us quietly on Monday morning. A smart, interesting, funny guy who loved a good lau (read full article)
When I first decided to make challah, I thought of it simply as a beautifully braided, golden loaf of bread. To me, it was a baking challenge that I wanted to conquer--just one among many other such baking challenges. Of course, not being Jewish (yea (read full article)
Despite the fact that I have been immersed, every week since the start of January, in the making of a wide variety of yeast doughs in school, I still feel some of the old familiar hesitancy and trepidation as a home-baker when faced with a new yeas (read full article)
Do you by chance happen to have a kid in high school who's on a sports team? Like maybe a swimmer? Well, I do. My older son, Charlie, is on his high school swim team, and any evening prior to a day with a scheduled swim meet, he always requests that (read full article)
Chocolate bread pudding wasn't really on my agenda this week, one might say it just happened. And what a happening it was.Of course, for typical American-style bread pudding you need typical American bread, and, typically, that means white. In my hou (read full article)
You may recall, as I've mentioned it once or twice in the past, that I'm not much of a yeast baker at all. My confidence level with any sort of baked goods requiring yeast has always been slightly below sea level. This is a little odd, seeing that my (read full article)
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