What are you Baking the Week of June 2, 2024?

[Mike Nolan]

I may make a batch of buns to test some of the findings from last week's keto ingredients test. I'll probably make some burger buns and some hot dog buns.

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[Joan Simpson]

BakerAunt I would love to have both your baked doughnut recipes.

[BakerAunt]

Joan--I just posted the pumpkin one and will get the applesauce one posted later. While I've tried King Artur's pumpkin doughnut recipe, it cannot hold a candle to this one.

[Joan Simpson]

Thank you BakerAunt.

[BakerAunt]

On Monday, I baked five mini-loaves of wholegrain pumpkin bread. I will freeze three loaves for fast desserts. We started having slices from one of the other two for dessert tonight.

I also made dough for my Whole Wheat Sourdough Cheese Crackers. It has been over seven weeks since my starter was last fed and about six weeks since I baked the crackers. My husband thinks that he can manage their edges now, as long as he eats them slowly, so I will bake this batch later in the week.

[Joan Simpson]

BakerAunt it's good to hear your husband is doing better.

[BakerAunt]

Thank you, Joan. He is having to work to increase how wide he can open his mouth on the side where they operated.

On Wednesday, I tried a recipe for Rieska (Finnish Flat Barley Bread) from the 2nd edition of Bernard Clayton, Jr.'s New Complete Book of Breads (pp. 176-177). I had happened to see the recipe when I was baking the Barley Orange Bread a week or two ago and glanced at the page next to it. It calls for a cup of evaporated milk (or half and half), and I had 2/3 cup to use up, so I added 1% milk to make up the difference. It's a very soft dough, indeed, more like a thick batter. I used a spatula to make it into two 8-inch circles on parchment and baked 13 minutes, turning halfway. I baked it to go with my lunch of Beans and Greens, but I ended up having one with lunch and the other, with strawberry jam, with my tea. My husband and I both like the taste of barley. I order it in 8 lb. bags from Jacob's Grainery in Washington state, as Bob's Red Mill ceased carrying barley flour three or four years ago. I'm always looking for ways to use more barley flour.

[BakerAunt]

I also adapted a recipe for "Ooey Gooey Blackberry Brownies," which came from the website "Six Sisters Stuff." It used Smucker's Natural Blackberry Spread, but I used some Blackberry, Black Raspberry, and Raspberry Jam that I made and canned two years ago. I replaced the AP flour with white whole wheat and reduced the sugar from 1 cup to ¾ cup. I omitted the milk chocolate chips. I added 1 tsp. flax meal and 1 Tbs. milk powder. I cut the salt from ¾ to ½ tsp. The recipe called for one egg and one egg white. I used just one egg and increased the water from 1/3 cup to 6 oz. I replaced 5 Tbs. butter with 4 Tbs. avocado oil. I used a 7 ½ inch by 1l inch glass baking dish, because fruits mess up my metal pans. The recipe called for a 9 x 9" pan, but I do not have that size in glass, hence the substitution. I baked at the same temperature, but checked after 25 minutes, and it was done. I'll post a review after we taste them.

[Mike Nolan]

Azure Standard has barley flour, it might be worth seeing if they've got a dropoff point near you.

They have an interesting business model, every two weeks or so they pack up orders into semis (including refrigerated/frozen items) and transport them to the local dropoff sites,where volunteers help unload the truck and then the customers load their orders into their vehicles.

Their flours tend to be whole grain and very finely ground, I got some semolina from them but it would be more accurate to call it whole grain durum flour as semolina is generally coarsely ground endosperm. I've also gotten rye berries and tapioca flour from them.

For us, the dropoff point is a nearby shopping center parking lot.

[Joan Simpson]

I made pie crusts last night and baked an apple pie for the poker game tomorrow night.

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[Mike Nolan]

Nice looking pie.

[RiversideLen]

That's a great looking pie, Joan!

I made a batch of burger/sandwich buns today.

[BakerAunt]

If I lived near Joan, I would need to learn how to play poker so that I could have a slice of her wonderful desserts!

[Joan Simpson]

Thank you all for the comments on my pie, we'll see how it slices up tonight.

[navlys]

Very nice looking pie, Joan. Glad to hear your husband is moving in a positive direction, BA.
I have some leftover pork rib meat and I'm thinking of making a cuban pita sandwich by adding some ham, swiss cheese ,pickle pieces and mustard. To be contined....

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