Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions 6 oz Dried fruit 8 oz Dark brown sugar 1/2 pt Strong hot tea 10 oz Self-raising flour 1 Egg This is Wales’ traditional rich fruit bread. South Wales makes it with baking powder; Northerners prefer yeast as the raising agent. Either way it’s delicious. Soak the dried fruit and sugar overnight […]

Ingredients & Directions 4 cn Refrigerator biscuits, -country or buttermilk 1/2 c Granulated sugar 1/3 c Brown sugar 1 tb Cinnamon SAUCE 1 1/2 Sticks butter or margarine 1/2 c Granulated sugar 1/2 c Brown sugar CAKE For the cake: combine the sugars and the cinnamon in a plastic bag. Break the biscuits into quarters […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Butter 1 c Sugar 2 ea Eggs, slightly beaten 1 c Mashed bananas (3 medium) 1 c Flour 1/2 ts Salt 1 ts Soda 1 c Whole wheat flour 1/3 c Hot water 1/2 c Chopped walnuts Melt butter. Blend in sugar. Mix in beaten eggs and mashed bananas, blending […]

Ingredients & Directions 3 tb Butter 3 tb Powdered milk 3/4 c Brown sugar 3/4 ts Salt 2 1/4 ts Active dry yeast 3 tb Sugar 1 3/4 c Bread flour 1 Egg 2 tb Bread flour 3 tb Oil 1 c Whole-wheat flour 1 c Water Cook the butter and brown sugar together over […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/3 c Can crush pineapple juice 3/4 c Crushed pineapple 1/2 c Raw, grated carrots 1 1/2 tb Applesauce 3/4 ts Vanilla extract 1/2 ts Salt 1 1/2 tb Brown sugar 3/4 c Oats 3/4 c Whole wheat flour 1 1/2 c Bread Flour 1 1/2 ts Yeast Put in breadmaker as […]

Ingredients & Directions 6 c Brown wholemeal flour; -(preferably ; stone-ground) 4 c White flour 2 ts Salt 2 ts Bicarbonate of soda; sieved 3 1/4 c Buttermilk* Brown and white soda breads are widely made in Ireland. Originally they were cooked in an iron bastible or pot oven beside the open fire. They are […]

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 c Butter or margarine, 1 1/2 c Commercial sour cream -softened 1 ts Vanilla extract 1 1/2 c Sugar 3/4 c Cranberries, chopped 3 Eggs 1/2 c Pecans, chopped 2 1/2 c All-purpose flour 1/2 c Golden raisins 1 1/2 ts Baking powder 1/3 c Apricots, dried, chopped 1 1/2 ts […]

Ingredients & Directions 4 tb Extra-virgin olive oil; see -cook’s note 2 c Chopped red onion 2 md Yellow bell peppers; cored -and seeded, chopped into -bite-sized pieces 1 lg Celery stalk; coarsely -chopped 4 Ripe tomatoes with a little -of their juice; seeded and -chopped, (about 1 cup) or 1 -(14-ounce) can diced -tomatoes, […]

Ingredients & Directions 7/8 c Water 1/2 ts Salt 2 1/3 c All-purpose flour, -unbleached 2 ts Yeast Place everything in pot in order presented. Press “start.” When second knead cycle has completed, turn off machine and allow dough to rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down and allow to double in bulk a second […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Butter at ROOM TEMPERATURE 1 c Sugar 2 lg Eggs 1 ts Vanilla 2 ts Baking powder 1/4 ts Salt 2 1/2 c Blueberries (mash 1/2 c with -a fork) 2 c Flour (I used 1 c flour and -1 c mixed whole grains per -my usual) 1/2 c Milk […]