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Home › Forums › Baking — Breads and Rolls › What are you Baking the Week of February 22, 2026?
BakerAunt.On Sunday, I baked two loaves of Whole Wheat, Rye, and Semolina Bread. It was my first time making this dough with the Ankarsrum, and these loaves are beautiful. (See Ankdarsrum thread for details.)
BA - I read the Ankarsrum post - do you think I could make the dough in my Zo? What size pans do you use? Are your measurements for 2 Loaves? Approximate rising/ baking times?
CWCdesign. I was trying not to step on Len's toes by not posting my variation, but since you asked about using the Zo, I hope that is OK with Len. I have a copy that I wrote up for myself that uses my Zo for mixing and kneading a single loaf or for buns. I have posted it in the recipe section for you. Enjoy!
The amounts I posted in the Ankarsrum thread are for two loaves. That would be too much dough for the bread machine.
Actually, BA I have the larger Zo in which you can make 2 loaves of dough - I do it all the time, part of the reason I opted for it. I'm also more apt to make bread, than buns. I planned to acknowledge Len - especially if I actually make it. I was just asking questions about your version.
Today, because it's cold, I'm going to make Mrs Cindy's Irish Oatmeal Bread.
CWCdesign. I was trying not to step on Len's toes by not posting my variation, but since you asked about using the Zo, I hope that is OK with Len.
That's fine, BA, posting our own way of doing things is how we help each other.
Thanks, Len, and thank you so much for the original recipe. It has become one of our favorites.
Thanks Len. I'm looking forward to trying it the next time I bake - I've actually been eyeing it every time you talk about the buns you make with it.
I did make Mrs. Cindy's Irish Oatmeal bread today - it came out quite well and I will slice it for the freezer tomorrow. I will post pictures tomorrow from my computer. I have a question about the top of the loaf that a picture will explain better than I can.
I did a small batch of Hot Cross Buns yesterday. I used my Kitchen Aid Mixer for almost all the kneading and mixing. I did knead the fruit in by hand and formed the dough into the proper buns. My arm is still sore from the big snowstorm at the end of January. I had snowcrete -- snow mixed with rain and freezing down to the sidewalk. The chipping necessary to try to clean one walkway and the driveway before the thaw has left me with a sore right shoulder. I am trying to avoid lifting objects with my right arm and was glad to do almost no kneading.
I made 20 small rolls in a 8x13 pan following the Babe (pig) cookbook recipe.
I did make about 110 mini-muffins on Sunday. tasty and about 8 carbs each.
On Tuesday, I baked Orange-Barley Pound Cake, a recipe that I adapted last year from a favorite Martha Stewart one. This year, I used cream cheese rather than replacing it with Greek yogurt because I needed to use up the 4 oz. that I had left after baking the pumpkin squares last week.
For those interested in the changes, I posted about it last year in this thread:
I'm making another batch of eclair shells using the choux paste recipe we used in pastry school, a bit different from the King Arthur one, we'll see how much different they are when they finish baking.
Each one is about 1/2 ounce of choux paste, so I got about 56 of them from the batch.
On Thursday, I baked my olive oil and barley version of the Lemon Oatmeal Cookies recipe that Joan introduced to us at Nebraska Kitchen. I got 32 cookies, using a #30 scoop. The cookies on the second of the three baking sheets got overbrowned on the bottom. As the first tray had to bake longer than 13 minutes, I thought the second would bake in the exact time. Wrong. I pulled the third sheet, with just cookies out at 12 minutes, and they were fine.
I made pastry cream to go with the eclairs, of course.
I had two overripe bananas in the freezer, and two more in the refrigerator that Scott insisted were overripe. Actually, they were not, but I think he wanted Banana Oatmeal Muffins, so I baked those on Friday morning. The recipe made 15.