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  • in reply to: Granola bars recall #1558
    Mike Nolan
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      The peanut-contaminated flour recall has spread to Kelloggs, which has recalled 17 items, including some Keebler and Famous Amos products.

      See Kelloggs recall

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      in reply to: baking bread from scratch #1557
      Mike Nolan
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        Recently I've been making the Clonmel Kitchens Doubly Crusty Bread, subbing butter for the oil and shaping/slashing/baking it like a Vienna Bread. We actually did a taste test on this recipe vs the Vienna Bread recipe in BBA, and the Clonmel Kitchens recipe won out. I don't know if PaddyL has posted that recipe here yet, I know she's been on the site a few times but hasn't posted or uploaded much yet.

        I divide it into 3 loaves, each around a foot long after shaping. This makes a nice small profile slice, great for a sandwich; if I want bigger slices I make 2 bigger loaves. I usually freeze 2 out of 3 of them, because I don't eat as much bread as I used to, either.

        With my wife on her 20 carbs a day diet, she's not eating bread at all these days, so I haven't made the honey wheat recipe in over a month.

        in reply to: Kid Pizza Needs Some Help #1553
        Mike Nolan
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          Glad to see you made it through the gauntlet. It may be frustrating but it is an evil necessity these days to keep the spammers out, most of them coming from countries most of us probably couldn't find on a map. (I'm must be on at least a half dozen WordPress-driven sites these days, I think mine is kind of in the middle for Draconian-ness.)

          There's a different card from me en route, Cass, might not get there until Thursday, though.

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          in reply to: The Best Scones by PaddyL #1520
          Mike Nolan
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            As scones recipes go, this one is not very sweet. Other recipes may have as much as 1/3 cup of sugar to 2 cups of flour. (But Southern cornbread recipes have little or no sugar in them, so it may be a geographical thing.)

            in reply to: Nut Cracker or Sheller #1516
            Mike Nolan
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              Something like this may work for you:


              http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200442219

              My mother spent hours every winter sitting at the kitchen table with a sad iron and a tack hammer cracking walnuts.

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              in reply to: Barley Flour #1515
              Mike Nolan
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                Barley has gluten proteins in it, but I don't know how much gluten it has relative to wheat. The USDA database says barley flour is 9% protein, while bread flour is 12%, so it may be similar to lower protein soft what flour.

                As to sources, Bobs Red Mill and Arrowhead Mills both have it, and so do various online bulk sellers. Check the natural foods/health foods aisle at the grocery store. If you have a Mexican grocery nearby, look for Harina de Machica.

                Because it is a low-volume product, it is usually more expensive than wheat flour. A typical price for a 5 pound bag online appears to be around $12, plus shipping. Honeyville sells a 50 pound bag for about $44, plus shippping.

                in reply to: Bread we had in Italy #1509
                Mike Nolan
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                  The rosetta and the michetta stamps look similar, the difference is the rosetta stamp probably doesn't make as deep an impression, since it doesn't have gaps in it. Other than that, I think they'd be pretty interchangeable, and either would be fine with me.

                  We definitely want the cast aluminum one as opposed to the plastic one, though.

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                  in reply to: Happy Birthday Kidpizza!!! #1502
                  Mike Nolan
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                    I hope you're reading this, Cass, so you know how much we all appreciate you. Happy birthday!

                    in reply to: Bread we had in Italy #1492
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I'm in, for sure!

                      As I recall, it was the recipe in Italian towards the top of that thread that I tried and liked, though I could never get a hollow center.

                      I could order a dozen items off that Italian website!

                      in reply to: What Did You Bake the Week of June 5, 2016? #1486
                      Mike Nolan
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                        Sorry, but my wife promised the caterer she got her scones recipe from years ago that she would not redistribute it. (I have a French Onion soup recipe I got from my French teacher with the same conditions, because that's the conditions under which she got it from a chef in France, she's only allowed to give it to her students.)

                        But search for buttermilk scones on the net, there may be similar recipes out there.

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                        in reply to: What Did You Bake the Week of June 5, 2016? #1479
                        Mike Nolan
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                          I'm sure you know that Lemon Curd is a dangerous substance, you need to get rid of it as quickly as you can, I recommend getting rid of it with a spoon and a batch of scones! πŸ™‚

                          in reply to: Bread we had in Italy #1423
                          Mike Nolan
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                            Nice websurfing, Laura. $30 (more or less) is not an unreasonable price, but I wonder what shipping/import duties would be?

                            I need to print a portion of that webstore page out so that I can show people EXACTLY what I'm after.

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                            Mike Nolan
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                              I made some bone-in chicken breasts that had been marinated in Marsala wine and mustard for 8 hours. I did them on the outdoor gas grill, since it was in the high 90's today.

                              in reply to: Italian Measuring Spoons #1409
                              Mike Nolan
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                                These days I'm increasingly likely to measure small amounts of ingredients using my small digital scale, which weighs in 0.1 gram increments. I started doing this with pie doughs and filling, where I had the recipe in Baker's Math format.

                                I may try looking for a rosetta stamp at J. P. Graziano Grocery in Chicago, if anybody in this country knows where to find one, it'll be them.

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                                in reply to: Bread we had in Italy #1405
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  Here's a thread on rosetta rolls that I don't recall from the last time I searched on that subject:

                                  https://figjamandlimecordial.com/tag/homemade-rosetta-rolls/

                                  It looks like she's trying the types of stamps more readily available in the USA.

                                  I found remilled semolina flour on Amazon, if there was an Italian grocery store in town, I'd check there. Maybe I'll be able to find some when I'm in Chicago this fall or have my wife/son check the Italian grocery store in Monroeville PA when she's there later this summer. (They could have the right stamp, too, worth at least asking.)

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