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Mike: I actually looked at your recipe, but I didn't have sour cream, applesauce, or yogurt on hand here, and since we head back on Saturday, I did not want to buy what might be left over. I'll have to give your recipe a try when we are home again. I almost tried the Vermont Maple Oatmeal bread.

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It made me want to bake (hence that cinnamon-swirl bread loaf) as an affirmation that life goes on.

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Cwcdesign reported on the other site that it is now gone for good. I went in through my bookmark, and now all that shows is the new KAF "community" page, which is community the way a large city does community, not the way a small town does. I will be removing that bookmark from my list of favorites. I'll go to the KAF site, but never to the "community" section.

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Thank you Swirth for posting the link and reminding us of the significance of Memorial Day.

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Celery Seed is the "secret" ingredient in my Four Bean Salad and in my Sloppy Josephines. (Sloppy Joes use ground beef and Sloppy Josephines use ground turkey.) One of my husband's graduate students from India identified the celery seed right away. Apparently it is common in cooking in the part of India from which she comes.

The German potato salad that I have had and like has bacon in it. The one I am thinking of can be served hot or cold. Since there is so much regional cooking in Germany, there are likely many kinds of German potato salad.

I certainly plan to try this one--maybe for the Fourth of July.

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Seeing these buns, and hearing what Lenny says about them, has convinced me that I need to bake this recipe after we get back from vacation. I am imagining wondrous sandwiches.

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I just went in again from my bookmark. Perhaps taking it down is more of a challenge than they thought.

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I noticed that on the KAF site. The community page, however, was still coming up from my bookmark earlier today, and I was even able to go to the discussions, where some poor person had posted a sourdough question that Gina was able to answer. That may be the final post. I just tried going there, and it was going in and out.

I'm not impressed with what KAF is now calling "community." My sense is that they now control most of the "conversation." Some of the responses on baking questions these last months always seemed to carry the "we know better than you" tone.

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Mike: Does the recipe really require 2 Tablespoons of yeast?

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Thanks to all for the advice. I put my husband to work washing it and sanitizing it with a bleach solution. We will put it on the porch table where it will get plenty of sun tomorrow. I think that it will be ok, as the cake was on a plate and did not touch the container. There did not seem to be mold on it, and my husband took it outside to open it up. As for the cake, my husband gave it a decent burial in the backyard.

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Thanks for posting the link, Mike. The list of alternatives to egg wash is also good to have for those people who cannot eat eggs.

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I'll have to check out the EVO sprayer. I'd like to get away from the Pam spray since those containers are not recyclable. A small one for canola oil would be great. I have a sprayer from KAF that I bought years ago for water, but I do not recall what kind it is.

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Happy Birthday, Swirth! We just arrived in northern Indiana this evening. We had clear weather driving across Illinois (through Urbana-Champaign). Here it is dry, so the rain did not come this far north.

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There is no way people will be able to eat this stuff fast enough to make a dent.

In northern Indiana, and some other states, the invasive plants are reed canary grass that overruns wetlands and is often seen growing by the side of the road, non-native cat tails, garlic mustard, honeysuckle, and bittersweet. I've also seen the wrongly named "Tree of Heaven" (which comes from the other place).

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Mumpy, Today, I tried your recipe for Peanut Butter Honeys that you had put in your recipe box at KAF. What a great peanut butter cookie--one that is not overly sweet like most such cookies. My husband liked them a lot. I used 50% white whole wheat flour. I used my tablespoon scoop and got 25 little cookies. I'm glad you posted it.

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