Any Home Bakers Here?

Hang in there, @Aria!

THANK YOU. You are always a bright light to me. Fond regards

Electrical Problem Solved....Antique Wax Burner wire was broken. After Electrician checked and $50.00 it was fixed. The power came on at 8:45 last night. House was 60 degrees and warmed up. WOW...what a day. Do not want to repeat.

Did a pizza today. It's seasoned, cubed pork, bacon, 2 cheese (fontina and real parmesan). The crust is a 1/2 WW, 1/2 Spelt, yeasted dough double rise in 24 hours. I mill the grains myself.

YES...HEALTHY and DELICIOUS.

Good day Home Bakers. Started my day kinda late.
Interesting I bought a new pizza pan stainless 18/10 so good grade.
Realized it was too large for the oven ..
Did get the pizza baked kitchen towel over the gap. Great gas oven. No convection that way.
@cavemanrich Thanks will try the apple compote

rjmyooper said:

Did a pizza today. It's seasoned, cubed pork, bacon, 2 cheese (fontina and real parmesan). The crust is a 1/2 WW, 1/2 Spelt, yeasted dough double rise in 24 hours. I mill the grains myself. View attachment 3071388

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That looks like very tasty Pizza!

Shredded Apple Cake.
Here is the recipe for the second cake I baked. Mom told me the recipe from memory, and I wrote it down on a piece of paper. Still have that original paper in my files. She described quantity by showing me what container she used. I simply recalculated amounts into cups, and spoons.

Ingredients.
4 cups shredded apples.
1½ cups sugar
3 cups flour (quantity may need to be adjusted)
1 TBsp cinnamon
1 TBsp cacao
1½ TBsp Baking soda.
½ cup oil
3 eggs
Raisins or craisins and diced dried apricots hydrated (about 1½ coups total)

Procedure. (I used dough hook)
Mix/ beat eggs and sugar in mixer.
Add oil,, mix
Add cinnamon, cacao, and Baking powder,, mix
Add craisins and diced apricots hydrated, mix
Add apples,, mix
Add 2 cups flour,,, mix, Judge consistency, and keep adding flour until not runny, but not stiff. I used 3 cups total,
Bake @350°F for 45 minutes. Check with toothpick/skewer to see if done.


I shredded the apples washed with skins on.

Eggs from my hens The extra fourth one is from my Bantie,, for good luck.

Hydrated in Captain Morgan. I did swig a lil extra Captain into there, so I needed to use additional flour to get dough consistency correct. Mom used bakers rum from small containers. I use the real thing.
Fruit total about 1½ cup.

Consistency of dough after mixing well. A little stiffer would also bake well. Size of eggs and amount of Extra Captain are are factors to consider. Reason I add flour last,,, to get my desired consistency. Easy to adjust plus or minus.

Before oven

Baked,, Looks lighter in color than next pix. Probably flash from camera.

Slicing.. white snow, is powdered sugar dusting.

Serving

Tastes delicious.

Notes; I used Grapeseed oil,, but Canola, and other oils will also work. I never tried Olive oil. Mom used Corn oil.
To my GF friends. I think recipe would work fine if flour was substituted with GF flour.

2 chicken and 2 duck eggs? Where did you buy your eggs?

cavemanrich said:

Size of eggs and amount of Extra Captain

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pennyJo1960 said:

Thanks will try the apple compote

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You are giving me GREAT IDEAS
Penny,,, I just dug up what I baked for Christmas. Here are pix of the Shredded apple, and also one I use Plum Filling,

With cinnamon and brown sugar,

Solo Plum Pastry filling.

I baked in Bread loaf pans

The top in pix is the apple. The one at bottom is Poppy seed. Cant find a pix with the plum,, but looked pretty much same as these.