You have to have a ton of patience to make bread and preserve jam. It’s very time consuming but worth the investment (and the clean up!).
I’ve been making the same walnut bread for the last few months as I got frustrated making challah, a traditional braided egg bread served on the sabbath. There is an [...]
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Walnut Bread with Strawberry Mint Jam
Au Currant: Irish Soda Bread
Ah, to be a currant, sunning in the Greek Isles. Especially on a day like today: gray and cold.
Except, it turns out, the currants I have in my pantry aren’t really currants at all, though they have been called that in the U.S. for the past hundred years or so.
“Zante currants,” as the bag reads, [...]
Banana Bread, redux
The other day, when I was making the maple cream pie, I saw them. Three forgotten bananas sitting in the fruit basket threatening to go rogue on me. It was just a matter of time. The oven was already on and I had already managed to make a mess of the kitchen [...]
Last of the Bunch
A number of years ago, I was at a friend’s place and I opened his freezer to get some ice and came across…an outrageous stockpile of frozen bananas.
I soon learned that my friend, who doesn’t cook, felt overwhelming guilt when he let the bananas go past their prime – and so instead of throwing them [...]