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My friends would have gladly eaten any donuts available, but they wouldn't have joined in my dissappointment at the lumpy shape and the sometimes completely filled in hole. This batch of donuts had better texture and shape than the last batch but still hadn't achieved perfection. My unsympathetic friends were more interested in taste than appearance.

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My problem with the recipe is the premise, I never had problems finding things to bake using buttermilk. I sometimes had to make a point of using regular milk because it was getting sour, but buttermilk keeps so well in the refrigerator I don't worry about it. I use buttermilk more in pancakes and quick breads than in yeast breads.

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Disposable gloves and masks and sanitizer are easily available around here if you check the right stores. Its just its not every store. The hardware store had disposable gloves and sanitizer and bleach. One of the grocery stores had disposable masks. I saw cloth masks for sell at the hardware store. Reusable gloves are in short supply.

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Nice article. The quarentine has given people the time and incentive to try and retry baking. Baking one batch of biscuits is either easy -- like when you did it in Girl Scouts -- or impossible -- the first several times you did it alone -- but now people have the time to try batch after batch until things work and no way to throw up their hands and go to the store when the first couple don't work.
Its easier baking when there aren't the time constraints but its harder not having friends to eat extra donuts. It'd be nice having friends to sympathize at ugly but tasty donuts, but I didn't have any of those before the coronavirus epidemic.

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I got to two stores today. Both were essentially out of flour. Trader Joe was out of butter too. I didn't see any yeast in either store, but I wasn't looking in the right place for cake yeast.

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Mike, Baker Aunt;
Thank you for finding the information for me! I'll try make Pan au chocolat soon, but I will probably have to improvise on the chocolate sticks. I'd like to try making my own molds and seeing how that works. If it doesn't work I'll just eat my mistakes. 🙂

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Got it.

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I got it!

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I finished baking my chocolate donuts. I couldn't find my donut cutter so I tried to form these as if they were bagels, forming a whole with my thumbs and then stretching them out. I tried to let them rise the whole afternoon, but the house was rather cold and they didn't rise much. I finally baked them in the evening for 20 minutes. They were small and misshappened poor things, the oven spring mainly obliverated the center hole. Not very sweet, darkly chocolate and with a fine texture. I was hoping for something more open.

I started with this recipe
http://www.everythingispoetry.com/2013/09/chocolate-baked-donuts.html

I used non fat milk, and 3 tablespoons of butter, 1 cup of whole wheat flour instead of 1 cup of white flour and some other changes. I'll have to try the plain yeast donuts some time before giving up on this.

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I just did another cheese pizza and will be baking chocolate donuts later today. I started the dough for the donuts yesterday, but it was lumpy. This is a yeasted donut recipe I found on the web and was adapting a bit. I had mixed most of the dough together when I realized I had forgotten the sugar. I hastily mixed it in as best I could but the dough turned out very lumpy and the lumps could not be kneaded out. I refrigerated the dough overnight, and then let it warm up and started kneading away and when I finished kneading it the lumps were gone!!. The overnight wait seemed to have softened the hard spots. Now to roll the dough out and hope I can find my donut cutter.

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I didn't know there were so many varieties of Challah, some of them sound very strange like chocolate chip and pumpkin cinnamon, but tasty.

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I did Cheese Pizza, turned out very nicely. I was a little worried because this was the inferior flour but it seems to have worked.

I've tried pumpkin cinnamon rolls they are very nice.

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Those cookies are gorgeous. I could never think of doing something like that.

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I got this!

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BakerAunt,
Good luck on the bread. I don't think 2 tsp of yeast is too much for such a heavy bread, but 1 or 1 1/2 tsps of yeast will probably work too. Just give it the time to rise to the necessary volume.

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