Category: Breads & Buns
Yeast Baking Know-How — 2-Hour Buns
Buns, Bread, Coffeecakes and All Things Yeast-Leavened I love to bake yeast-leavened products – whether dinner rolls, whole wheat buns, delicious coffeecakes or the seed bread that I baked yesterday to go with our borscht at supper last night. What I especially love is that it is so easy to add our own personal touch […]
ZWIEBACK – Mennonite Double Buns
Zwieback – Mennonite double butter buns All About Zwieback Zwieback, as described by Norma Jost Voth in her book, “Mennonite Foods & Folkways from South Russia Volume 1”, are considered by the author to be the hallmark of Mennonite cooking. The history of Zwieback goes back to the early 16th century in the Netherlands. In Mennonite communities, Zwieback were always […]
Making No-Knead Bread
Jim Lahey, the founder of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York, started a new craze in bread baking, called the “no knead” technique. In this short clip, he shares a recipe on how to make no-knead bread where the baker lets the time do the work. The secret to this type of baking is slow-rise fermentation. […]
The Best Cinnamon Rolls
The most heavenly cinnamon buns were served by ladies at a mini-conference that I attended recently. For coffee break (this one was not called a nutrition break!) large trays of warm, just out of the oven buns were laid out on the long serving tables. […]
Surprise Fruit and Nut Scones – A Favorite Quick and Easy Treat
Scones are a wonderful, slightly sweet quick bread that is quick and easy to prepare. An easy after school snack for the kids or served at Sunday brunch with homemade preserves (either your own or purchased from the farmer’s market), these are sure to please. Since prep time […]
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