Any Home Bakers Here?

[Alice28]

Whew, yesterday's dough worked well for the loaf today. I'm so happy, it's DH's favorite and the ingredients weren't a waste on a botched up mess. Here's a photo, it just came out of the oven (and it makes a crackly noise as it's cooling, so cool, lol): It's a kind of sourdough with a chewy crust and lots of air holes inside.

That looks super yummy!

 

[sunflour]

Whew, yesterday's dough worked well for the loaf today. I'm so happy, it's DH's favorite and the ingredients weren't a waste on a botched up mess. Here's a photo, it just came out of the oven (and it makes a crackly noise as it's cooling, so cool, lol):



It's a kind of sourdough with a chewy crust and lots of air holes inside.

Looks great, good job. Now I'm getting hungry for some sourdough bread.

 

[sunflour]

Got my biscuits done, cooled and in fridge for dressing T day.

My honey wheat rolls are in bread machine on dough cycle, lots of spare time during rises.

Trying very hard not to bake an eagle brand lemon pie to , ah, fill in the gap til pumpkin pie thursday!

 

[sunflour]

Do you measure or weigh ingredients when baking?

Last winter got an electronic kitchen scale and it makes rolls, bread making and feeding my starter so much easier.

 

[N F C]

Do you measure or weigh ingredients when baking?

Last winter got an electronic kitchen scale and it makes rolls, bread making and feeding my starter so much easier.

Whether I weigh or not sort of depends on the recipe. Like the Monster Cookie recipe I posted a while back, it calls for weights on peanut butter, brown sugar and maybe some other ingredients...those are easier to weigh than to measure because the recipe calls for so much and who likes to measure p-nut butter anyway, that's just a hot mess. My bread recipe book provides both weights and measures. Flour can be tricky so I usually weigh that but measure the other ingredients.

We have a scale from our old shop and it's very easy to get an accurate reading by ounces, pounds, etc.

You're right sunflour, it can make bread making easier!

 

[N F C]

Got my biscuits done, cooled and in fridge for dressing T day.

My honey wheat rolls are in bread machine on dough cycle, lots of spare time during rises.

Trying very hard not to bake an eagle brand lemon pie to , ah, fill in the gap til pumpkin pie thursday!

You've been working hard today!

On your biscuits, do you use self-rising flour? I haven't got into biscuit baking, partly because I don't want another type of flour sitting around, lol. If it's possible to use all-purpose and just add a leavening, I might give them a shot.

 

[sunflour]

Has anyone ever made pie crusts and frozen them. Thinking about trying it. So could make ahead and bake my pumpkin pie later in the week.

 

[N F C]

Both my mom and I have frozen pie crusts before. It's nice to get that out of the way early. Mom kind of had to do it because her & Dad used to go to craft sales and they would sell pie by the slice among other things. Mom used to make up anywhere from 40-80 pies for each show. She became friends with the produce manager at her grocery store and he would set back boxes of imperfect fruit for her; she could get boxes of apples, peaches, plums, apricots, etc at a very small fraction of the perfect fruit.

Anyway, for freezing them, we just cover them well with foil (sort of shape it just like the pie shell) and then stack them and put them in a ziplock baggie.

 

[sunflour]

Both my mom and I have frozen pie crusts before. It's nice to get that out of the way early. Mom kind of had to do it because her & Dad used to go to craft sales and they would sell pie by the slice among other things. Mom used to make up anywhere from 40-80 pies for each show. She became friends with the produce manager at her grocery store and he would set back boxes of imperfect fruit for her; she could get boxes of apples, peaches, plums, apricots, etc at a very small fraction of the perfect fruit.

Anyway, for freezing them, we just cover them well with foil (sort of shape it just like the pie shell) and then stack them and put them in a ziplock baggie.

Thanks. Gonna try it.

 

[wyoDreamer]

My MIL used to freeze entire apple pies raw. she would just pull one out, sit it on the counter while the oven warms up and then bake it like she just made it. They were pretty good too.