Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions Unbleached Flour Potato Water Boil some potatoes for supper, save the potato water, and use it lukewarm with enough unbleached flour to make a thick batter. without yeast. This is a good way to make it in camp, where you have no yeast available and want fast results. This is also the […]

Ingredients & Directions 8-inch unbaked pie pastry -shell 2 1/2 lb Fresh spinach 1/4 c White wine 1/2 c Rose water 1/3 c Sugar (or more) 1/4 ts Cinnamon pn Salt (generous) Sliced strawberries and -confectioners’ sugar for -topping A Spinnage Tart–Take good store of Spinage, and boyl it in a Pipkin, with White-Wine, till […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Unbleached Flour Warm Milk To Make Thick Bat. This starter is the same as starter #2 but uses warm Milk instead of water. Use the same instructions. Yields 1 servings

Ingredients & Directions 1 2/3 c Flour 1/4 c Sugar, very fine 1/2 ts Salt 10 tb Butter -chilled 2 Egg yolks 1 ts Vanilla extract 2 ts -cold water 1. Sift flour, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl. Cut chilled sweet butter into pieces into the bowl. Using your fingertips, rapidly rub the […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Unbleached Flour Water To Make Thick Batter Mix flour and water to make a thick batter. Let stand uncovered for four or five days, or until it begins working. This basic recipe requires a carefully scalded container. Yields 1 servings

Ingredients & Directions 4 lb Boneless pork loin roast, -fat trimmed Salt Pepper 1 c Dry red wine 1/2 c Orange juice 3 tb Chopped shallots or onions 1 Clove garlic, minced 1/4 ts Minced ginger root 1/8 ts Ground allspice 1/8 ts Pepper 3 tb Cornstarch 1/3 c Cold water 1 lb Fresh or […]

Ingredients & Directions -Bread Machine CB Notes: A true sourdough starter is nothing more than the flour and milk or water which sits at room temperature for several days and catches live yeast bacteria from the air. Most starter recipes today include yeast as an original ingredient as it is much easier and less time […]

Ingredients & Directions 8 oz Shortcrust pastry 1 lb Greengages, washed, halved And stoned 1 ds Sugar, optional 2 Eggs, beaten 1 pt Single cream Set oven to 400/F or Mark 6. Line a 7 inch flan dish with the pastry and bake blind for l0 minutes. Arrange the greengages, cut side down, in the […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Thick Potato water 1/2 ts Yeast (use yeast only to 2 tb Sugar -speed action) 2 c Flour (more or less) Dump above into Sourdough Pot. Boil potatoes with jackets on until they fall to pieces. Lift skins out, mash potatoes making a puree. Cool. Add more water to make […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 1/2 c Milk -warm water 2 tb Solid vegetable shortening 1 c Herman sourdough starter at 1 1/2 ts Salt -room temperature 1 pk Dry yeast, dissolved in 1/4 5 To 6 cups bread flour makes two 9×5 inch loaves 1. In a wide saucepan, combine the milk, shortening, sugar, and […]