Mike Nolan

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  • in reply to: KAF closing extended; bbc site also says my sis #254
    Mike Nolan
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      What's going on? Running a website has gotten expensive, and costs are accelerating.

      in reply to: Staying in Touch with KAF Baking Circle friends #248
      Mike Nolan
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        Sometimes the best way to participate is to ask a question that stimulates an interesting discussion.

        in reply to: What are you planting in your garden this year? #245
        Mike Nolan
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          It’s probably a good thing we weren’t planning on doing a big tomato garden this year, we’ve had about 6 inches of rain in the last two weeks and more is forecast for this weekend, so the garden area is way too wet to plant in. We'll be lucky to have it dried out by Memorial Day.

          Also, we had about 45 minutes of hail the other day, many of the plants my wife was getting ready to put in her flower beds look like they were run through a shredder, and any tomatoes in the garden would have suffered, too.

          We consider mulberry little more than a noxious weed!

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          in reply to: My Nebraska Kitchen #242
          Mike Nolan
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            I have all my recipes from the King Arthur Baking Circle posted here now.

            Mike Nolan
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              Here's the key section:

              Meanwhile, restrictions on cane-sugar imports into the EU will remain. The combination could squeeze importers like Tate & Lyle Sugars, whose London refinery has been turning cane sugar into sweetener for 138 years.

              “The clock’s ticking for us,” said Gerald Mason, a vice president of Tate & Lyle as he watched a crane unload a 35,000-ton shipment of sugar. “We are not going to be competitive after 2017 unless the regulation is changed.”

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              in reply to: Sugar Industry Regulations threaten Lyle’s Golden Syrup #188
              Mike Nolan
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                I wasn't sure if that link would work, good to know what works and what doesn't. I was half-way expecting that WSJ story to morph into the Brexit issue when they brought up Tate & Lyle.

                Taxing to discourage consumption has a mixed track record. Some folks think it worked well for smoking, but some states have become dependent on those taxes and are seeing declines in tobacco taxes affecting their state budgets.

                The soda tax hasn't appeared to work as well where it's been used, and it's unlikely that they'll be able to raise the taxes to the point where demand becomes truly elastic--restaurants make huge profits on soft drinks, too.

                The shopping center nearest us just got a 1% increase on sales tax (on everything except food, I think) so they can help pay for Scheels to build a huge new store, complete with a Ferris Wheel inside and put up a parking garage where the current Scheels (not small) is. :sigh:

                Best line I read all weekend: How can you tell macroeconomists have a sense of humor? They use decimal points.

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                in reply to: A Four-Loaf Bread Pan #158
                Mike Nolan
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                  Is your 12 x 4 pan measured on the top or the bottom?

                  Several people make a metal 12 x 4 1/2 pan:

                  Wilton:
                  Wilton Recipe-Right-Piece-Long

                  Here's one made with carbon steel:
                  Carbon Steel Long Loaf Pan

                  And a NorPro one:
                  NorPro Loaf Pan

                  King Arthur still has the stoneware 12x4 tea loaf pan:
                  Tea Loaf Pan

                  Fantes has a loaf pan designed for angel food cakes, 16 x 4:
                  Angel Loaf Pan

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                  in reply to: A Four-Loaf Bread Pan #151
                  Mike Nolan
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                    If someone's still looking for four-strap pans, several of the restaurant supply sites have them (webstaurant.com, etc)

                    in reply to: A Four-Loaf Bread Pan #147
                    Mike Nolan
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                      When I was growing up, we had a 'clubhouse' in a building that was full of old bakery equipment. There were lots of 3-strap, 4-strap, even 8 strap (2x4) bread pans, racks, sheet pans, etc. I've wondered if they're still there. and what shape they're in. (The grocery store that the bakery outbuilding was behind closed many years ago, but nobody ever cleaned it out to open something else in that space.)

                      Mike Nolan
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                        Not a new recipe, but I made chicken mirepoix for supper tonight, and I think I hit on a good balance of herbs, some basil and some celery seed.

                        I use skinned bone-in breasts, because my wife won't eat chicken skin, so I've been experimenting with ways to keep the surface of the breasts from getting too dry. Tonight I tried covering the breasts with cabbage leaves (or as my wife put it--edible cellophane.) I'm not sure if they added much flavor, and they dried out too much to be eaten, but they did seem to keep the breasts themselves from drying out. I'll have to try that again.

                        in reply to: A Four-Loaf Bread Pan #135
                        Mike Nolan
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                          It's called a four-strap pan, and various sizes of them, many sized for commercial ovens and thus too big for most home ovens, are often used in commercial bakeries.

                          I'm not sure what the holes are for, they may help the bread come out.

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                          in reply to: Frico Caldo #116
                          Mike Nolan
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                            Yum, cheese 'crackers'. I introduced our granddaughter to them at Christmas, she thought they were marvelous!

                            in reply to: Frico Caldo #112
                            Mike Nolan
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                              Did they look anything like this:

                              Frico Caldo

                              in reply to: Say Hello! #111
                              Mike Nolan
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                                BakerAunt, I'm looking forward to your weekly 'what did you bake' thread because we need to start talking about baking here! 🙂

                                in reply to: Say Hello! #92
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  Your orange cake looks great! You aren't actually abandoning the Cubbies in a year when they might just make history??

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