Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 lb Puff pastry -(fresh or thawed frozen) 1 c Sugar 1/4 c Water 5 lb Golden Delicious apples – peeled, cored, quartered – and tossed with Lemon juice 1/2 ts Cinnamon 1/4 c Unsalted butter; melted Sugar FOR PASTRY: Preheat oven to 300 F. Roll pastry 1/8 inch thick. Cut into […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 oz Butter 1/4 ts Cayenne pepper 1/4 ts Chili pepper 1 ts Salt 1 1/2 lb Lean round steak; freshly -ground Chopped beef should be freshley ground just before serving. It is served raw. In a 9-inch skille melt the butter. Add seasonings and stir thoroughly. Add ground steak and mix […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/4 c Niter kebbeh 1/2 c Onions — chopped fine 4 ts Green pepper — chopped Fine 2 ts Chiles — chopped fine 1 ts Ground ginger 1/2 ts Garlic — chopped fine 1/2 ts Ground cardamom 1 ts Lemon juice 2 ts Berbere or awaze 2 ts Salt 2 lb Ground […]

Ingredients & Directions -DEBBIE CARLSON (PHHW01A) -KING ARTHUR FLOUR HINTS (CONTINUED) “In a couple of hours you may see tiny bubbles appear on the surface. If so, cheer your brew on by keeping it warm and covered overnight. In the morning, celebrate by making sourdough pancakes (which you’ll find …in our “King Arthur Flour 200th […]

Ingredients & Directions -DEBBIE CARLSON (PHHW01A) -KING ARTHUR FLOUR HINTS (CONTINUED) TROUGLESHOOTING Feeding Without Baking: “If you have been busy or away, you can always feed your starter without baking anything. Stir the mixture together, take out and discard 1 cup of starter and replenish as above, stirring in 1 cup water and 1 cup […]

Ingredients & Directions -DEBBIE CARLSON (PHHW01A) -KING ARTHUR FLOUR HINTS (CONTINUED) Storing Your Starter: “Once your sourdough pet is cold and relatively dormant, it can survive quite a long time between “feedings.” It is certainly not as demanding as children, or more traditional pets, but it isn’t happy just sitting for months on end like […]

Ingredients & Directions -DEBBIE CARLSON (PHHW01A) -KING ARTHUR FLOUR HINTS (Continued) How to Feed & Care for Your Sourdough Starter: “Keeping a sourdough starter is somewhat like having a pet because it needs to be fed and cared for. But its requirements are simple and not time consuming. Baking with sourdough is also a simple […]

Ingredients & Directions -DEBBIE CARLSON (PHHW01A) -KING ARTHUR FLOUR HINTS The following information comes from King Arthur Flour “A Short Course in Cooking With & Keeping the Elusive Wild Yeast”. What is a Sourdough Starter? “A sourdough starter is a wild yeast living in a batter of flour and liquid. Yeasts are microscopic fungi related […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 2 Inch Gingersnap Cookies 2 Sheets Graham Crackers 1 tb Butter; Melted 2 Egg Yolks 1/2 c Sweetened Condensed Milk 1/4 c Key Lime Juice; (See Note) Grated Peel Of 1 Lime Whipped Cream; Optional Crush gingersnaps and graham crackers in food processor or by hand to a fine crumb. Place […]

Ingredients & Directions 4 Egg yolks 1 cn (14-ounce) sweetened -condensed milk 1 ts Grated lime rind 1/3 c Key lime juice COCONUT CRUST 1 c Flaked coconut 1/2 c Gingersnap crumbs 1/2 c Graham cracker crumbs 1/4 c Butter or margarine, melted Beat egg yolks with a wire whisk until lemon colored; add sweetened […]