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Classic White Buns – Homemade buns

| February 1, 2016 | 1 Comment

                Homemade Classic White Buns  are a perfect match with homemade soups and chili. This classic bun recipe yields wonderfully rich, satisfying buns. They are made with white all-purpose flour and the recipe yields about 4 to 5 dozen medium to large-sized buns, depending on the size you […]

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Make Herman or Amish Sourdough Starter for Baking Sweet Breads

| January 29, 2016 | 3 Comments

              Want a starter to make delicious sourdough cakes, coffee cakes, rolls, breads, pancakes, and biscuits with? This Herman Sourdough Starter is great. I also know this recipe as the Amish starter for Friendship Breads. I’ve included TWO ways to make the Herman Sourdough Starter, and I’ve included several […]

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Old-Fashioned Water Buns – buns like Grandma used to make

| August 5, 2015 | 0 Comments

Old-Fashioned water buns, the only name I know them by, are a favourite that I wanted to share with you. My friend, Louise, shared her mother’s recipe for light and airy buns made with the addition of potato cooking water. Louise’s mother hated to throw out all those vitamins left behind after cooking diced potatoes […]

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GLAZED ORANGE NUT BREAD

| May 12, 2015 | 0 Comments

                        My Glazed Orange Nut Bread is an easy and quickly put together recipe that I often go to when I need something light and tasty for a tea or a coffee break with friends. This is such a basic recipe that usually everything […]

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YEAST BAKING KNOW-HOW: CRESCENT ROLLS

| April 14, 2015 | 0 Comments

YEAST BAKING Know-How: Part 2 When working with yeast mixtures, be sure to read the recipe, as there are 3 different methods to mixing the dough. Each leads to entirely different product in texture and appearance. Here is a summary of the 3 methods. THREE BASIC MIXING METHODS: Traditional Dough Method: Ingredients are added into […]

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