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Thursday evening, I baked Double Ginger Biscotti with Pistachios. It’s my adaptation of a recipe from the June 1997 Bon Appetit. The second time I baked it (see April 8, 2017), I added 1/3 cup crystalized ginger (hence the “double” in my title). This time, I added ½ cup of crystalized ginger, as I wanted more ginger taste.
On Thursday morning, I baked Wheat Germ Corn Muffins, a recipe from the back of a package of Bob’s Red Mill wheat germ. I also found it on their site:
https://www.bobsredmill.com/recipes/how-to-make/wheat-germ-corn-muffins/
It is like most cornbread recipes, but it uses just half a cup of cornmeal and adds ½ Cup wheat germ. I substituted buttermilk for regular milk, so I added ¼ tsp. baking soda (did not reduce the 1 tsp. baking powder), reduced the salt from ½ to ¼ tsp.. Instead of melted butter, I used 3 Tbs. canola oil. I made them as 6 large muffins rather than 12 standard. I had a warm one with butter—delicious!
My husband thinks that our non-fruiting black raspberries show a genetic issue because they are a clone of the ones that grow behind our shed. Those also flowered but did not set fruit. We've noticed as well that, for some reason, there do not seem to be that many bees around.
For breakfast on Tuesday, I baked a new recipe, "Cream Scones," from Beatrice Ojakangas' Breakfast with Beatrice (p. 200), which is a collection of her breakfast recipes from her various cookbooks. The recipe makes four small scones, and my only change was to substitute in 1/4 cup of cake flour for part of the 1 cup flour. These have a light texture and are slightly sweet.
We tried a bit of the jam--the little bit that did not fit into the canning jars. Black raspberries have wonderful flavor.
Prices on pork tenderloin have been excellent, so I am again making Maple-Glazed Pork Roast (Cooks Illustrated) with mashed potatoes, along with steamed green beans from the farmers’ market, for Sunday dinner--and dinner for the next several days.
Joan--What do you put in your lima bean soup? Ham? I have a vague recipe of my mother making such a soup. She adored lima beans.
