What’d You Do Last Weekend?

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Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake

Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake

Daring Bakers out of a toaster oven was proving to be interesting.


Beer Bread

Beer Bread

Earlier this year I borrowed a copy of Ruth Levy Beranbaum's The Bread Bible from the library and culled through it for recipes I wanted to try. Rather than buy every book I want, I'd rather borrow, try a few recipes, and then decide if it's something I need to add to our (ample) cookbook library. One of the early recipes I'd settled on was a beer bread. I'm a big fan of pumpernickel bread and while this recipe didn't have some of those familiar pumpernickel ingredients, I thought it might be a good weekday-night substitute. The trick was in finding a flavorful enough beer to use.


Italian Creme Cake

Italian Creme Cake

Over the years, I’ve been known to rummage through used book bins in search of out-of-print gems. I’ve got some victory garden cookbooks, and plenty examples of ‘modern cooking’ books that proclaim the wonders of microwavery and a balanced meal of meat and potatoes. I especially enjoy finding old regional collections – usually from ladies’ clubs, rotaries, churches – when they’re the genuine article and not just simple reprints of the box recipes from Kraft products.


Tropical Carrot Cake

Tropical Carrot Cake

When my friend Sarah wrote that she was looking for a good carrot cake recipe, it occurred to me that I don't really have one in my repertoire. My family was never big on carrot cakes, so I never got one passed down from Granny or any of my baking aunts. But not wanting to let Sarah down, I went on a hunt for something a little different. I figured everyone had a standard carrot cake recipe, but I wanted to find something that I hoped would make that wedding cake she's working on a real showpiece.


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