I decided to make bagels this week, and settled on baking a classic sesame bagel. Sesame bagels are an all time favorite of mine. Sesame seeds, such simple little thing, somehow gives plain bagels that extra little push into crunchy, toasted goodness. I can’t even begin to describe how something so tiny can impart such…
Category: Bread
Italian Anise Easter Bread
It took me a few days to post this recipe, but I made this lovely, enriched, anise scented bread on Good Friday, in a lead-up to the Easter weekend festivities. I found the recipe in The Bread Bible, and decided to give it a try. The original recipe has you dividing the dough into three…
Rosemary Sourdough
These rosemary sourdough boules are my first baking project made with my new batch of sourdough starter – not to shabby. I made my bread dough at the beginning of last week, but I did not get around to actually baking it until the end of the week. The timing gap was not intentional. I…
Sun-dried Tomato and Basil Flatbreads
Here is my other promised flatbread post. Sun-dried tomato and fresh basil flatbreads made out of a blend of cornmeal, semolina, and regular flour and spiked with a bottle of hard cider. Ingredients: 1 cup Cornmeal + more for dusting 1 cup Semolina Flour 2-3 cup Flour 2 tsp Salt 1 tbsp Honey 4 tsp…
The Ephemeral Bee 