Any Home Bakers Here?

[BigBlueHen53]

My kitchen is a little on the cool side today and I'm working on a batch of sourdough bread. Here is how I'm keeping it warm in its various stages of rising (my recipe calls for several periods of half-hour resting between a few minutes of "stretching" - not kneading):

1. Pour an inch or so of hot water in a pie pan and place a bowl in the center of the pie pan.

2. Place the bowl containing the bread dough on top of the bowl in the pie pan.

3. Cover the bowl with the bread dough with towels to keep it warm. If necessary, replace the hot water every half hour or so.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Not thinking I got to post this before my Jewish apple cake turned out really great very moist

 

[Marie2020]

Not thinking I got to post this before my Jewish apple cake turned out really great very moist View attachment 2866963

That looks just perfect

 

[pennyJo1960]

Having left over Bacon and chicken pizza for lunch like mine cold

 

[Marie2020]

Not thinking I got to post this before my Jewish apple cake turned out really great very moist View attachment 2866963

What ingredients did you use?

I will have too look this up

 

[pennyJo1960]

Crap do not recall think big blue posted it but here goes
Jewish Apple Cake Recipe

Ingredients

5 tablespoons sugar mixed with 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon for apples

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
¼ cup orange or pineapple juice
2 ½ teaspoons vanilla
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3-4 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced into 1/2″ slices

Directions

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease and flour a 10″ tube or 12 cup Bundt pan.

In a mixing bowl, combine the cinnamon and sugar and add apple slices. Toss to coat. Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt, then add sugar, oil, eggs, juice, and vanilla and beat until smooth. Batter will be very stiff.

Spoon a third of the batter into the bottom of the pan. The batter will be thick so once you spoon it in, give it a slight “shimmy” to create an even layer. Arrange half the sliced apples on top, then add another third of the batter, the remaining apples, and top with the last third of the batter. Use your best rubber spatula to get all the good batter from the bowl so none goes to waste! Apples won’t be completely covered.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool in the pan for 20 minutes before inverting onto a serving platter. Then let it cool completely.

 

[Aria]

Not thinking I got to post this before my Jewish apple cake turned out really great very moist View attachment 2866963

Penny....BEAUTIFUL...is there a recipe ? Aria

 

[pennyJo1960]

I thought @BigBlueHen53 may have posted it first

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I thought @BigBlueHen53 may have posted it first

Not me, but that is beautiful, Penny. C'mon, bakers, 'fess up! Whose recipe is this?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

My sourdough loaves are in bowls in the fridge to rise slow until tomorrow evening after sundown when I will bake them. This is a sloooooow-rising recipe, to let that sourdough flavor and big bubbles develop. Can't wait! Will bake one at a time in a cast-iron Dutch oven. Wish me luck!