IMPORTANT! There is a mistake in the early printings of this book for this recipe. You should use 2/3 cups water plus ¾ cup sour cream in the sponge. See the errata list for details. This bread is a variation of the Basic Hearth Bread I made last week. I made the sponge and le...
The healthy aspect of this muffin is in the use of whole wheat flour and wheat germ. I forgot I had regular whole wheat flour and ended up using some durum whole wheat flour. I also didn’t have crushed pineapple on hand, substituting chopped fresh Rainier cherries. Fortunately...
For the sponge, I used kamut flour as well as some stoneground whole wheat flour, and let it ferment overnight as recommended for the “ultimate full flavour”. Beranbaum addresses the issue of kneading dough on #4 speed with the Kitchenaid mixer (whose manual says to only use #...
Recipes from Frozen Desserts by Caroline Liddell and Robin Weir Notes on Maple Syrup Pecan Ice Cream: The one unusual thing about this recipe is that the cream/egg mixture is baked in ramekins in a water bath. One thing that amused me in the recipe is the line about using a go...
These brownies were for a special occasion: Happy Birthday M! I made this using Cacao Barry’s Tanzanie, a 75% cocoa dark chocolate, instead of the mix of semisweet and unsweetened chocolate called for in the recipe. The brownie contains cocoa powder, a quarter pound of butter,...
Everyone is talking about this new ice cream book and some of the flavours do sound interesting, but I was looking for a frozen yogurt recipe and found this one. You can barely call it a recipe as it only has three ingredients: yogurt, sugar and vanilla extract. The mixture wa...
I got a deal at the farmer’s market on four pints of raspberries, nearly the last of the season. This pie crust gave me a bit of trouble as it cracked a lot during rolling, but I kneaded the top crust a bit more and it held together much better. For the liqueur, I used Southbr...
Another resident in my freezer was a container of frozen passion fruit pulp which I scooped from several ripe specimens a few months ago (or was it longer than that?). I used a food processor to free the pulp from the seeds (which stayed intact) and combined it with fresh mang...
The next item up from my freezer was a bag of frozen strawberries. I thawed and drained the berries, and combined them with rhubarb to make this pie. In my sleepy state of my mind, I forgot to add any lemon juice into the filling, but the pie still tasted fine. Instead of flou...
A Google search led me to this financier recipe which I thought would be a nice dessert for Canada Day. I only had 8 egg whites, so I made four-fifths of the recipe. After mixing the egg whites, confectioner’s sugar and almonds together, the batter was lumpy so I used a hand b...
