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Cooking from Scratch: Where's the Work?

Posted August 25, 2009 - 05:00 by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

Kneading bread

Over the past couple of years, I've moved more toward cooking as much from scratch as I can. I've tried to isolate the places where the biggest concentration of work is in cooking from scratch, and see what I can do about it.

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How to bake sourdough bread (and save a buck on every loaf)

Posted March 13, 2009 - 10:40 by Philip Brewer

Food and Drink

Just-sliced loaf of fresh-baked bread

I doubt if the cost of yeast is really breaking your household budget. If you bake a lot you probably already buy yeast in bulk, so you're not paying the per-packet price anyway. And yet, baking sourdough bread (or rolls or pizza crust) is just so cool. My wife and I haven't bought yeast for years, but we bake bread all the time. And that's what this post is about--baking sourdough bread.

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4 Simple Tips to Improve Homemade Bread

Posted January 28, 2008 - 08:28 by Thursday Bram

Food and Drink

One of my fondest memories from my childhood is the time I spent helping my grandmother bake challah . The woman is still an artist in the kitchen and her recipe is the basis that my aunts, cousins and I all use. If you haven’t had challah before, it’s a sweet braided bread, although not so sweet as to be a dessert. This is a fairly simple challah recipe. I started baking my own in college — after I found out that, at least in the Midwest, the few bakeries which made challah managed to charge almost double than it would cost me to pick up the ingredients.

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Why is bread so expensive?

Posted November 7, 2007 - 12:40 by Philip Brewer

Food and Drink

Graph of rising price of wheat

Having given us some good tips on dealing with the rising cost of bread, Myscha asked me to provide a bit of analysis on why bread has become so expensive. Oddly, the reasons behind the rise in the price of bread are almost the opposite of the reasons behind the rise in the price of nonfat dry milk that we talked about a couple of days ago.

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