Living at high-altitude? Then you know how difficult it can be to adjust your baking. This quick, concise article will help.
High Altitude Baking Adjustments
Tips for baking with natural ingredients.
Baking Tips
Indoor Herb Garden Kits and Ideas
If you do any baking or cooking at all, you will find recipes calling for “two tablespoons of fresh, snipped chives,” or “1/4 cup of fresh dill.” And so you go to the cupboard, find the 12-year-old tin of chives that fell behind the sugar bowl the last time you had baked potatoes, and you cross your fingers and sprinkle. Amirite? Of course I am. …
Why Did My Cake Sink in the Middle?
Three elements combine to keep your cakes from falling. Find out how to adjust your recipe to produce perfect, domed layers.
Get the Most From Your Bread Machine
A bread machine is a useful tool, but it usually needs a little help to produce the best-quality loaf. Here are a number of things to look for when making adjustments to your bread machine recipes.
The Best All-Time Cookbooks
For Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, International Home Cooking Day and Christmas – these cookbooks are (or soon will be) classics for the home cook and baker. Yes, you really can learn to cook well by following in the footsteps of the masters. Check them out! The Best All-Time Cookbooks Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle On it’s 50th Anniversary, Mastering the …
Organic Food Coloring – Review
Organic food coloring? Is there such a thing? Nothing seems more artificial than adding coal-tar chemicals to your food to change the color. But these days, artificial food coloring is found almost everywhere, from sodas to candy to pickles and even your daily vitamin! It’s very difficult to avoid, even if you’re scrupulous about it. The United States v. Europe: What’s Allowed in Food In …
Homemade Golden Syrup (for Americans)
Golden syrup is familiar to my UK friends, but Americans may not know of it. It’s a good substitute for over-processed corn syrup, and you can make it at home!
How to Substitute Baking Soda for Baking Powder
The long and short of it is this: Yes, you can substitute baking soda for baking powder in most recipes. No, you cannot substitute baking powder for baking soda in most recipes. What is baking soda? Baking soda is a compound that can be naturally mined from the ground, but is most often created through a process using the mined product (Arm and Hammer). …
How to Cook Beans
You and many others have decided to stock up on beans. I know this, because my store is completely bone-dry of any variety of bean! Understandable, and thankfully, I already had several bags on hand. They last for a long time and there’s a lot you can do with them. But if you haven’t used them much before, here are a few pointers on how …
Bread Making Ingredients, What’s in a Loaf
Fresh bread is a supremely satisfying food. The following is a list of the basic ingredients that interplay to build a wholesome loaf.