Category: Breads
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Mark Bittman’s Fast Bread
Mark Bittman has this recipe but calls for “instant yeast” and says you can skip the rise. I just buy the 2 pound packs of regular active dry yeast at Costco. I keep a small jar in the refrigerator and keep the rest in the freezer. Since I don’t have the “instant yeast” around I…
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Corn Bread with Sour Cream or Yogurt
I’ve made this Fannie Farmer recipe a few time in the past month. Prior to this I’d always followed a corn bread recipe with a 3/4 cup cornmeal to 1 cup flour ratio, regular milk, 1 egg, and some bacon grease or shortening. This one has 2 eggs, a ratio of 1:1 of the corn…
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Fried Dough / Sfingi
Also from an old Italian cookbook… Pizza Fritta says the cookbook but I think my ex MIL called it Sfingi. To me, they are like a raised doughnut without the hole. You can use any basic white bread dough. If you don’t have a favorite recipe, try the one below.