I bake bread for my family every week. Home baking is not that hard, not that time consuming, and certainly cheap! You don't need a bread machine or a lot of fancy equipment. This blog features a tutorial on home bread baking, tips on equipment and ingredients, and recipes for real home cooking.
It looks like a Martian fungus, but it's really just the rhubarb poking up in the garden. When it looks like this here in the north, I know that other people are already making rhubarb pies in Kansas and Indiana.
Rhubarb is the kids' pocket money crop. They recommend Grama Alice's Rhubarb Crumb Cake recipe:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp soda
- i tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup milk
- 2 cups coarsely chopped rhubarb
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Sift together dry ingredients
- Add shortening, eggs and milk
- Add rhubarb and mix slightly
- Pour into a buttered 9 x 13 inch pan
- Sprinkle topping over batter, pat it down with hand.
- Bake 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 4 Tbsp butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
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- From Lake Leelanau, Michigan
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There's more to food than just nutrition, otherwise we would all be eating custom-formulated kibble. I didn't exactly learn to bake from my grandmother, but my ancestors, even the ones I never met, have informed and influenced my lifelong exploration of cooking and food. Want to read more? Check out this entry from my home blog, French Road Connections
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