How to Make Honey Dipped Donuts: Doughnut Appreciation Day
Doughnut Appreciation Day will be fun because we’ve made Honey Dipped Doughnuts! Quick Donut-Making Tips: When you mix doughnut doughs, have all your ingredients at room temperature. Stir dry ingredients into the wet quickly until barely blended. This avoids having gluten develop in the dough, which makes the donut dough tough. How to Make Honey Dipped Doughnuts: The last doughnuts I gave the recipe for were made without yeast,...
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...
A Celebration of Vinegars: National Vinegar Day
National Vinegar Day is a great day to experiment in your kitchen with this sour substance. Generally speaking, vinegars are the result of fermentation, and almost any liquid can be used in fermentation during the initial stage. They yeast action converts the sugars to alcohol. During the next stage, bacteria convert the alcohol into acetic acid. Vinegar can be made from grains or fruit. The various vinegars can be rich, mellow or...
How to Make Sour Cream Donuts: Buy a Doughnut Day
It’s Buy a Doughnut Day, and if you don’t want to buy one, then I have a fabulous Sour Cream Donuts recipe below for you. The Love Affair with Doughnuts: I don’t often make donuts a part of my regular diet, but sometimes, I get a strong craving for a honey dipped or sugar glazed donut. I feel like if I don’t have one soon, my body simply will not be happy. Donuts are definitely a treat to which can become...
American Beer Day: How Is It Made?
American Beer Day is upon us, and we’re celebrating the World’s most ancient beverage. Having been brewed for over 6000 years, to our knowledge. It has been a very popular drink in past history, and in our present age, has been beset with many layers of modern advertising & marketing. Don’t let the intense television images & other media depicting it to be a rather glamorous drink, rather than the humble...
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...
Swedish National Cinnamon Roll Day: How to Bake Cinnamon Rolls
It’s National Cinnamon Roll Day in Sweden, and why not? Ooey, gooey goodness of fresh, soft bread rolled up with cinnamon, raisins and a glaze icing. What’s not to like. Of course, they would love them in Sweden! They’re not difficult to make, so try these rolls out. How to Bake Cinnamon Rolls: Delightful and soft, I have a super tasty cinnamon roll recipe as follows. Type: Bread Recipe Serve with: tea or coffee Prep...
National Hot Cross Bun Day: How to Bake Hot Cross Buns with Milk Glaze
Did you know that today is National Hot Cross Bun Day? Well, in the USA it is… Someone might mention “Hot Cross Buns” and this little ditty of a nursery rhyme pops into memory immediately! Hot Cross Buns. Hot Cross Buns. One a penny, two a penny. Hot Cross Buns! They are so silky, big & fluffy hiding their tasty, little morsels of goodness inside. Whether toasted or plain, they’re great! Typically made for...
How to Make Your Own Ginger Beer
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably had ginger ale more times than you can count, but it’s a good bet you have never tried ginger beer. The two aren’t the same – ginger beer has a fiery, invigorating kick and is fermented just like beer. Some recipes make a very alcoholic drink, with up to 11% alcohol, but you can brew ginger beer with little or no alcohol content if you want. Ginger beer started out in...
How to Bake Homemade Hamburger & Hot Dog Buns
You’ll love baking these fresh & fluffy Homemade Hamburger & Hot Dog Buns for BBQs, tailgate parties or anytime you’re enjoying amazing sandwiches! As I was grocery shopping yesterday afternoon, I was about to purchase some hamburger and hot dog buns for the BBQ I intended on doing that evening. Each bag was easily over $3.00 for 6 hamburger buns, and 8 hot dog buns. It then hit me…Why haven’t I ever...
How to Cook Vegemite and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
If you have never had Vegemite before, then you haven’t experienced the potential of it’s deliciousness! LOL It is certainly an acquired taste. When I lived in Australia, the friends I lived with ALWAYS ate Vegemite, which is a Kraft product. In fact, Vegemite is an Australian staple, much like peanut butter and jam is in North America. This is what people eat for breakfast there in their favorite way on toast with butter...
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...
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