Joie de vivre

From the top, crocus, garlic, rhubarb, snowdrops.  Click to enlarge.

Roll With It!

Bread blogging returns!

(click on photo for close-up tastiness)

Roll with the puches! Roll me over! We’re on a roll!

Friday…

scones! (butter, cranberries)

Jam? Butter? Both?

As a small break from the sometimes-grim back and forth of the education debates, this morning we offer you…biscuits!

This is a pretty basic rolled biscuit, made with butter and buttermilk.  We cut them square to minimize the amount of handling.

Coffee?

Oatmeal Bread

Oatmeal Bread

Friday Linky Business!

Streaming .TV shows by UstreamAs a break from the usual routine, we call your attention to the page up above entitled “Quirky Links.”

There’s something there for each of you, so long as you love puppies, cats, octopi (as animals, we mean, not as food), or…humans!

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“And, it’s good for you…”

100% Whole Wheat

Crackle & Crunch

Shao Bing (Chinese Sesame Breads)

Hot Apple Pie

Limpa!

Limpa, from Peter Reinhardt’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread

Election Cake!

Hartford Election Cake

At one time the only holidays observed throughout the New England States were Thanksgiving Day, Militia Day, and Election Day.  As a treat, voters were served slices of this heavily liquored yeast cake.

The original recipe was supposed to have been developed in the 18th [...]

Pan de Muerto

Pan de Muerto (Bread of the Dead)

Danish Breads

Landbr­ød (Country Egg Bread) and Nellike Brød (Spiced Wheat Pumpernickel) from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book, Beatrice Ojakangas

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I Like Chicken Squash Pie!

Well, the hardest work that ever I done Is plowin’ a field of rye The easiest work that ever I done Was eatin’ chicken pie -Crow Black Chicken, Leake County Revelers, (1928)

Bran-a-licious!

Bran Bread

Do You Love an Apple?

Apple Muffins, from The Maine Apple Barrel (1944)

Anna, Damn Ya!

Anadama (left) and Meteil (rye) with onions.

Pita Puffing!

Whole wheat pita puffing in the oven (on terracotta tiles).

What Do You Call Them?

Pancakes, flapjacks, flannelcakes…?