Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Unsalted softened butter 1 c Sugar 4 c Flour 1/4 ts Salt Preparation time: 25 minutes Cooking time: 20 to 25 minutes 1. Cream butter and sugar in large mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in flour and salt. Knead the dough briefly until smooth. If dough is too […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Whole meal irish soda bread Down yonder in one of our big fields is a lovely mysterious ruin of an old house and grist mill–moss covered stone walls, roof fallen in over a perfectly arched stone doorway–and at one end of this relic is a tiny two-room cottage that was once […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Whole Wheat flour 2 c White flour 1 ts Salt 1 c Oil 2/3 c Water I found this recipe in the AOL Cooking Club cookbook. Mix the flour and oil in a large bowl until crumbly. Add water and mix. Roll out, form into flat disk or square shapes, […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 pk Active dry yeast 1 lb Flour* 250 ml Tepid water 1 ea Egg yolk, beaten 1 lb Belly of pork, diced 2 lb Pork fat, diced 12 tb Dry white wine *Flour should be a mixture of unbleached white bread flour with 2 generous handfuls of buckwheat flour, sifted together. […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/4 lb Pancetta; dried 1 Walla Walla or other sweet -onion; diced 4 Cloves garlic; chopped Kernels from 2 ears of corn; -(about 1 cup) 1/4 c Diced dry-packed sundried -tomatoes 6 c Cubed French bread 3 c Half-and-half 1 tb Chopped fresh thyme 2 ts Fresh marjoram 1/2 ts Celery salt […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Shortening 1 c Sugar 1/4 ts Salt 1 ts Vanilla 2 Eggs 2 tb Milk 1 c Chopped apples, unpeeled 1/4 c Chopped nuts 2 c Sifted flour 1 ts Baking powder 1/4 ts Cinnamon Cream shortening, sugar, salt, vanilla until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Rye flour 2 tb Vegetable oil 1 tb Dry yeast 2 tb Cider vinegar 1/2 c Warm water 1/2 c Unbleached white flour 1 ts Salt In a deep bowl, measure our the rye flour. Make a well in the centre. Dissolve the yeast in the water & add to […]

Ingredients & Directions 5 c Chicken stock 1 lb Chicken breasts, skinned 2 Bay leaves 3 tb Olive oil 1 Onion, chopped 2 Garlic clove; minced 2 Carrots, diced 2 Celery stalk; diced 1 Sweet green pepper, diced 2 c Cabbage; chopped 1 ts Dried thyme 1 ts Dried rosemary 19 oz Tomatoes, coarsely chopped, […]

Ingredients & Directions FOR 1-1/2 LB. LOAF 1 pk Yeast 1 1/2 ts Salt 3/4 c Rye flour 1/2 c Honey 3 c Bread flour 1 1/2 c Very warm water 3/4 c Yellow cornmeal Put ingredients into pan in the order listed, select white bread and push start. NOTE: Using two flours and a […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 pt Flour (two cups) 1 ts Salt 4 ts Baking powder Milk and water Sift dry ingredients. Mix to a soft dough with the milk and water. Knead 2 minutes, turn into a greased pan, let rise 10 minutes and bake slowly for 40 minutes. This bread can be eaten by […]