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Banana Bread

May 22, 2005 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Banana bread is a great way to use up those “too-ripe” bananas that suddenly appear and no one will eat. If you don’t have time to bake with them right away, toss them in the freezer until you do have time. You can toss them in with the skins on. You can peel them and [...]

Blueberry Coffeecake

May 12, 2005 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

My eldest has hit that point, which seems common, when breakfast is a problem. She doesn’t want eggs anymore. And the hot cereals that were a favorite for so many years don’t do it–other than hot cornmeal or fried mush. (I’ll write that up another day.) We’ve never been cold cereal eaters. Fruit smoothies sometimes [...]

Dinner Bread

February 13, 2005 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Mark Brittman has this recipe but calls for “instant yeast” and says you can skip the rise. I just buy the 2 pound packs of regular yeast at Costco. I keep a small jar in the refrigerator and keep the rest in the freezer. Since I don’t have the “instant yeast” around I find the [...]

Corn Cake with Sour Cream or Yogurt

January 2, 2005 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I’ve made this Fannie Farmer recipe a few time in the past month. Prior to this I’d always followed the corn bread recipe here with a 3/4 cup cornmeal to 1 cup flour ratio, regular milk, 1 egg, and some bacon grease or shortening. This one has 2 eggs, a ratio of 1:1 of the [...]

Fried Dough / Sfingi

October 17, 2004 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Also from an old Italian cookbook… Pizza Fritta says the cookbook but I think my ex MIL called it Sfingi. To me, they are like a raised doughnut without the hole. You can use any basic white bread dough. If you don’t have a favorite recipe, try 1 Tbs yeast 1 3/4 warm water 1 [...]

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