Home Baking

How to: Mom's Homemade Whole Grain Bread

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How to make whole grain bread from freshly milled flour
For this recipe, you will need
4 cups of freshly milled flour.
1 ½ cups of milk
¼ of oil (I like grapeseed oil)
1 Tablespoon of honey
2 teaspoons of salt
2 tablespoons of soy lecithin powder
And 1 tablespoon of yeast.
Warm the milk to 105 to 110 degrees. Then add the honey. Pour into a heat safe container, add yeast and let sit 10-20 minutes until the yeast bubbles up about an inch. Pour this mixture into your mixer. Read more

Fudge Brownies from the children's cookbook, Baking with Friends

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Baking is a wonderful opportunity for children to learn about valuable life lessons such as following instruction, caring for oneself, and math skills. Goops Children's Books is now pleased to present the children's cookbook Baking with Friends for parents, educators and mentors looking to make an impact in a child's life.

Full of fun recipes, tips and fun facts, Baking with Friends offers over 30 recipes children can bake with the loving and supportive adults in their lives. In addition, the book offers a number of resources and materials to expand the educational experience.Read more

Dropping cookie dough - To get cookie dough to drop without sticking, dip the spoon in milk first.

Dropping cookie dough - To get cookie dough to drop without sticking, dip the spoon in milk first.

Baking with Friends

Author: 
Sharon Davis and Charlene Patton
Publisher: 
Goops Unlimited, 2010

Looking for a fun activity to do with friends – either kids or adults – on a weekend afternoon? Look no farther than the aptly titled, “Baking with Friends,” by Sharon Davis and Charlene Patton. Davis, a licensed trained home economist and family and consumer sciences teacher, and Patton, executive director of the Home Baking Association, teamed up to produce this charming baking/learning/fun book.Read more

Gale Collier

Redmond, OR

When Gale Collier was 12, she decided to treat her parents to breakfast in bed. She woke up early on a Saturday morning, opened the cookbook, and chose biscuits with gravy, bacon, and eggs. “I wanted everything to be perfect,” she recalls with a smile, “but everything went wrong.” While her parents waited patiently in bed, Gale’s youthful enthusiasm resulted in burned bacon and biscuits which she ruefully describes as “hockey pucks.”Read more

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