Food and Baking
Browse the offerings from my kitchen, here. You won’t find any “3 ingredient recipes,” or “hacks” of any sort. But you might find something to tickle your tastebuds. Sometimes I’ll share an old family recipe. Or maybe something a little obscure. Maybe even a new concoction.
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Scandinavian Spiced Milk Cake
Now that you’ve made your clabber, I thought I’d share a few recipes for things to make with it. Let’s start with Scandinavian Spiced Milk Cake. Milk cake, or mjölkkaka,…
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Clabber – Make it and Bake it
Last week we talked about yeasts, and how to use them for leavening. Today, let’s talk about another culture – milk clabber. A staple of kitchens gone by, it’s still…
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Slow Food Baking 101: Understanding Sourdough, Commercial Yeast, and Home Yeast Cultures
Slow food baking has, for quite a while, focused on sourdough bread. Or various baked goods made from “sourdough discard,” whether they need leavening from yeast, or not. So much…
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Strawberry Lemonade Jam
This summer has been a little bit lack-luster. Between the drought and the smoke (and lets not forget the gypsy moth invasion) it hasn’t even been pleasant to BE outside…
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Honey Caramel Panna Cotta
Caramelized milk and cultured dairy pain with honey and berries for this very special panna cotta.
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Speculaas Oatmeal Bake
Let’s face it, Oatmeal Bakes are just better tasting than “overnight oatmeal.” I’ve never liked the snotty texture of those concoctions, no matter how popular they may be. To appeal…
More things to explore
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Stop 1: Bittersweet Quilt Shop
It’s now been just over a year since JoAnn Fabrics went bankrupt and closed down. The Lamentations have been loud and prolonged. It’s certainly true that the death of that…
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Making a Slow Living Commonplace Book
If you subscribe to my e-mail newsletter, you may have noticed that it’s entitled “A Brambleberry Commonplace Book.” Are you familiar with what a commonplace book is? A commonplace book…
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Strong Churches Part C
National Strategies for Revitalization And, again, the usual disclaimer – I have no credentials, no connections, and speak with no particular authority. And I realize that some of the suggestions…
