Ketogenic Diets

My wife and I have been explor­ing the world of keto­genic diets, with mul­ti­ple goals in mind. One is weight loss, of course, but the oth­er is to see if this would have some impact on our Type II dia­betes. (Diane is tak­ing insulin, I am not–yet.) Heart and kid­ney issues com­pli­cate mat­ters fur­ther. And…

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Published:February 6, 2024 View Post

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Using Baker’s Math

Bread recipes writ­ten in bak­er’s math for­mat can be intim­i­dat­ing. How do you know how much of each ingre­di­ent to mea­sure out? I think recipes writ­ten in bak­er’s math for­mat are eas­i­er to use once you know how much dough you want to pro­duce, which is almost always the case in a com­mer­cial bak­ery. If they…

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Published:October 28, 2022 View Post

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The Pie (Dough) Chart

Or, How to make the right amount of pie dough regard­less of your pie pan size. If you’ve ever wound up with a bowl full of extra pie dough cut off the edge or had to roll your pie dough real­ly thin to get it to fill the entire pan, this arti­cle is for you. Pie dough…

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Published:October 16, 2020 View Post

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Measuring Pie Dough Thickness

How do you mea­sure the thick­ness of pie dough?

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Getting Seeds to Stick to Bread

In a recent thread on My Nebras­ka Kitchen, the issue of how to get seeds to stick to bread came up. So, today I tried an exper­i­ment. I made a batch of Chi­ca­­go-style hot dog buns (the KAF recipe), mak­ing 12 buns. (We like our buns a lit­tle small­er than what the recipe sug­gests.) I divided…

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Published:September 6, 2017 View Post

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Things they don’t tell you about home grain milling

A few years ago I received a Nutrim­ill machine as a Christ­mas present from my old­er son, along with a big buck­et of soft red wheat berries. As Christ­mas presents go, it’s prob­a­bly been one of my favorites over the past 25 years, cer­tain­ly one that opened up a new world for me. Milling my own flour…

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Published:May 27, 2016 View Post

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