A Guinness and millet based bread enhanced through the judicious use of molasses and chocolate – my latest foray into bread baking. I was actually aiming to make a dark sourdough rye for my mother on Mother’s Day, but I could not find any rye flour at the local supermarket. Which is, in my humble…
Tag: Yeast
White Bread
All week I have been fielding a craving for my Grandma’s homemade strawberry jam on her white homemade bread. I have been chalking it up to an ongoing craving for Spring, which has still been eluding us in these snowy northern environs. I generally do not make white bread, if fact, I can not remember…
Sesame Bagels
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…
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…
The Ephemeral Bee 