This recipe works wonderfully with freshly-milled soft white wheat, spelt, or a combination of the two. These whole grains give fantastic flavor while still being light and fluffy. It also works nicely with 50% all-purpose and 50% hard red white (which is the kind you know as “whole wheat flour” in the grocery store. If […]
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Our 2024 Cookie Cruise Recipe: Molasses Spice Cookies
We had a blast giving away dozens of our molasses spice cookies to the town of Hot Springs during the 2024 Cookie Cruise! As promised, here’s the recipe in case you want to make it yourself. These cookies are soft and chewy, with a little bit of spice and not too much sweetness (good or […]
Book Spotlight: Soup Night Slapdashery Cookbook
Soup Night Slapdashery by Rebekah Merkle has become the cookbook I’ve been turning to for actually simple soup recipes. I tend toward not-simple in my normal cooking and usually find that books categorized as “simple” are either filled with ingredients that are expensive or just end up taking more time when multiplying a recipe for our family […]
Gingerbread House Recipe: Edible Glues
We use two different types of “glue” for our gingerbread houses. The first is simply sugar (white is cheaper, but brown works as well), simply melted until it’s liquid. As you can imagine, this is very hot and very messy, as evidenced by this video of 2024’s gingerbread assembly: It’s not the type of glue […]
Gingerbread House Recipe: Marshmallow Fondant
From siding to shingles to 3D shapes, this simple marshmallow fondant is easy to cut and mold. It’s also much cheaper than candy so it’s a good choice for covering large areas. Food coloring can be added to tint the fondant, but with the amount of powdered sugar that’s needed to roll it out, it […]
Gingerbread House Recipe: The Structure
A great recipe for sturdy structures that last all season long! Meets the “entirely edible” requirement but that doesn’t mean it tastes good. 😉 Our Recipe for Gingerbread House Structure 2 cups corn syrup or molasses (see below)1 1/2 cups light brown sugar1 1/4 or 230 grams cups shortening9 cups or 1080 grams all-purpose flour […]
I Found the Reason My Sourdough Starter was Sluggish
Ever since we moved this spring, my sourdough starter has been sluggish, a fact I bemoaned to many of our customers when we opened in September. It was still working at a basic level, but I wasn’t getting much rise at all – definitely not doubling in volume when building up the starter or doing […]
Why I Wear an $80 Apron
Nineteen years ago when our first child was born and I became a full-time homemaker, I encountered a problem that, at the time, was plaguing other moms in the same phase of life: I started wearing holes in my shirts right at my belly button! What caused this issue? It was not just plaguing me: […]
Corn and Cucumber Salad
This is one of our family’s favorite summertime salads, and it’s a great way to use the cucumbers and basil that we are harvesting right now in mid-August! Maybe next year we’ll have jalapenos, corn, and onions from our garden… Then maybe the next year we’ll have a dairy cow and make the feta and […]
Everyday Homemade Burger Buns
Jump Straight to Recipe My cooking and pantry-stocking habits changed years ago when we moved from in-town to a little way outside of town. The grocery store was really not that much farther away, but making a 4 PM visit to the grocery store to pick up just a few things for supper no longer […]