Using the Right Flour Makes Baking Delicious & Beautiful
Baking is certainly an art-form, and using a great flour makes your baked goods delicious & beautiful. Whether you’re baking a basic bread, cookies for the kids, or something more fanciful & substantial like a pastry crust for quiche, using a flour that’s of high quality is important. You want a flour that’s pure, is evenly & well ground, and that tastes good. Maybe you use flour in small batches, or you...
How to Bake Traditional White Bread + Video
Everyone should know how to bake a really good, all-purpose loaf of bread, and a great place to start is with this recipe for Traditional White Bread. How To Bake Traditional White Bread: To bake bread of this kind, you will need to use a good, traditional, fresh active dry yeast, which you will allow to bloom in warm water. The bowl containing your proofing yeast should be kept warm by placing it in a larger bowl containing warm...
How to Bake Bread with Raisins: Raisin Bread Month
Raisin Bread Month is here in the month of November, and now you’re thinking to yourself when on Earth the last time you baked a loaf of Raisin Bread at home was. It may have been a while, if I’m guessing correctly. Raisin Information: Raisins are just dried grapes. Muscat grapes, which are generally available near year end, are aromatic, sweet & are ideal to use in baking rich cakes & other confections. The golden...
How to Make Pretzels from Scratch: National Pretzel Day
National Pretzel Day is here, and it’s also National Pretzel Month. If you’ve never made pretzels before in your life, don’t let them intimidate you to venture out and make from scratch. You can do it. Hot, chewy pretzels are hard to resist an the aroma so appeals to our taste buds. How to Make Large Pretzels: Pretzels are relatively easy to make & are able to be stored in airtight containers for as long as 3...
How to Bake Russian Mennonite Meat Pirozhki
It is my pleasure to present to you today my very 1st special guest on my show, my mother – Ingrid Turner from IngridTurnerToday.com to show you how to bake a coveted family recipe that’s been passed down many generations to make it to your screen today, and hopefully, into your home & heart. This is a Russian or German Mennonite recipe called Pirozhki. Now, today, we will be filling it with the most traditional...
How to Bake Rye and Cola Bread for the Bread Machine
I’ve been looking at this bag of bulk dark rye flour in my pantry for a few weeks and today, it vexed me that I hadn’t made rye bread yet with it. In fact, I haven’t made rye bread in a while, probably because a combination is what I was looking for, but nothing sparked my interest in my head, until I saw a bottle of flat cola in my refrigerator. Rye & Coke/Cola Bread in the Bread Machine sounded like an awesome...
How to Bake Grandma Kasper’s Zwieback Buns
Ahhh…Zwieback!!! What could represent a soul food for German & Russian families better than Zwieback buns… I can remember the smell of zwieback baking in my grandmother’s farmhouse kitchen, my mother’s kitchen, as well as all of my aunts’ kitchens… …It is an ultimate goal of just about every extended-Kasper female in our family to have this recipe on hand, and hopefully learn to bake them...
How to Bake Crusty Italian Flax Seed Bread
Today is Day 4 of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike. There is nothing like eating fresh, crusty Italian bread with soups, stews or pasta dishes. I made a beautiful Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli tonight and wanted this fabulous crusty bread to accompany our meal. We served with an olive oil, balsamic & Italian herb mixture to dip the warm bread into…It was delicious! Type: Bread Recipe Serve With: Softened Butter and...
How to Bake Moroccan Spice Bread for the Bread Machine
Want to learn something new? Learn how to bake Moroccan Spice Bread for the bread machine! This bread is a delicious, spiced homemade bread as an accompaniment to soups and stews. Try this bread recipe with my Moroccan Chickpea Soup – it’s perfect! Type: Bread Recipe Serve With: Softened butter or olive oil, and Moroccan Chickpea Soup Prep Time: 7 min Cook Time: 2 hrs 35 min Yield: 1 loaf Ingredients: 3/4 cup tea or water...
How to Bake Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies
What do Perfect Peanut Butter Cookies mean to me? The perfect peanut butter cookie is chewy on the inside, crunchy on the outer edges and perfect when warm with a glass of milk. If this is your idea of delicious, then this is the peanut butter cookie recipe for you! It was our late-night pb snack last night… Type: Cookie Recipe Prep Time: 10 min Cook Time: 10 minutes Yield: 2 dozen Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter –...
How to Bake Cranberry Rye Bread in a Bread Machine
Baking bread is something that is almost a daily occurrence in our household. Needless to say, I love my bread machine! I have a number of bread machine recipes on Cooking with Kimberly, so be sure to check them out too…However, this is a great way to incorporate cranberries into your diet, create something fun to eat during the Holidays, and/or a good way to use up cranberry sauce from Christmas or Thanksgiving. Rye bread is...
How to Bake Pumpkin Bread in a Bread Machine
If you are looking for the right recipe for pumpkin bread, then this is it…especially if you want to use your bread machine! When we make pumpkin pie filling from scratch for pumpkin pies over the Holidays, you’re bound to always have more than you need. This often happens in our household, so we store the rest in the freezer in serving size bags or containers. These portions are perfect for my pumpkin bread recipes,...
Boxed Chocolate Bread for the Bread Machine
Got boxed chocolate left over from a holiday like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter or even Halloween? Well, here’s a neat and easy way to use it up if you’re getting a bit tired of it and won’t eat the rest of it looking at you from inside that box! Type: Bread Recipe Serve With: Softened butter or Nutella Prep Time: 10 min Cook Time: 3 hrs + 40 mins Yield: 1 loaf Ingredients: 1 cup milk 1/4 cup tea –...
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