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Category Archives: Baking
Real Pizza Dough
Make this pizza dough once, and you’ll never again buy a frozen pizza or one of those pre-made doughs that taste like dessicated wood chips. The only challenge is timing, as the biga takes 12 – 16 hours to develop. While … Continue reading
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Sourdough Bread, How Much Easier Can It Get?
When Judy, the chef in Laurel’s charter school, shared this formula for making sourdough bread with me, I thought, “This sounds just too easy.” What, no autolyse phase? No folding? No kneading, are you kidding me? With a rise time … Continue reading
Big Hair Pancakes
If you’d like the same kind of zip in your pancakes that you get from sourdough bread, this is for you. For some years, my basic pancake recipe was pretty straightforward: equal portions of white and whole wheat flour; salt, … Continue reading
Sourdough Bread: Dominatrix of the Kitchen
When the sourdough wants something, it wants it NOW, and you better do what it asks. Arriving at a career crossroads some months ago, our 6-year-old daughter told me, “You should be a baker. Everyone likes pie.” While pie holds … Continue reading
