A New Recipe There is nothing like the aroma of homemade bread, fresh out of the oven! I enjoy making bread, and I enjoy trying new recipes. This recipe makes a soft slice of bread – probably because it has milk as one of the ingredients. The story behind the recipe I begged this recipe off my niece who got it from her twin sister (also my niece, of course). Beth got the recipe from … Read more
I posted this recipe over four years ago. It came from one of Dave’s customers back in the late 1980s. I’ve been making this recipe for a lot of years. You probably have your favorite, too. You don’t even need a mixer to make homemade bread. You can read about that here. Every serious homemade bread baker has her own favorite recipe, but most of us like to try different ones from time to time. … Read more
The backstory of my bread making [This recipe is one of the most popular ones on this blog. I posted it four years ago and am re-posting it today because I know that new readers have probably not seen it yet. This is a keeper, for sure!] I grew up in a home with a bakery attached to the kitchen. My mother had a bread business; she mixed and baked sixty pounds of dough (two-pound … Read more
This recipe for cornbread is a hearty recipe. It’s also quite filling! You’ll need the ingredients one usually uses: cornmeal, flour, sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, and baking powder. In addition, you’ll need yogurt and creamed corn. I got this recipe from my friend Ron Miller – who came to a meeting bragging about his wife’s cornbread. He said he’d just had a piece and it was so good. Of course I had to have the … Read more
Honey dinner rolls add a little extra oomph to your dinner. These rolls are fluffy, yet a little sturdier than regular dinner rolls. I suppose that’s because of the honey, eggs, and milk in the dough. The original recipe calls for scalding the milk first, but I don’t. I have a feeling this recipe originally came from someone who used raw cow’s milk. I do, however, heat the milk with the butter and honey; that … Read more