Any Home Bakers Here?

[N F C]

Happy Anniversary!

Thanks sunflour! Nice to see you and hope you have a great day!

 

[sunflour]

Thanks NorthFlChick, I've been around some…welcoming some new members, reading threads, but nothing really to add to the discussion.

Baking very little - but did bring out a pumpkin pie I froze unbaked at Christmas and baked it for New Years. Was as good as the fresh baked one.

Been doing some sewing….making napkins from stash scraps.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Hope everyone had happy holidays.

I have not been baking much. Just me and DH and not a whole lot of holiday spirit. I did make Kringles at Christmas, took them to the family party. Guess I need to make him some today so he can enjoy before the big diet on Monday.
Off to make Indian Fry Bread for breakfast. I have to get the grinder down and make some wheat flour first.

 

[Alice28]

Hi Alice28, guess we're on the same baking schedule...I'm baking cookies today too. It's our wedding anniversary so I'm making DH's favorite (peanut butter cookie with a mini peanut butter cup pressed into the top).

Yum! We use the do the with a herseys kisses on top. Happy anniversary! My husband loves brownies, so that's what I make for special occasions for him. Your cookies sound yummy!

 

[sunflour]

Hope everyone had happy holidays.

I have not been baking much. Just me and DH and not a whole lot of holiday spirit. I did make Kringles at Christmas, took them to the family party. Guess I need to make him some today so he can enjoy before the big diet on Monday.
Off to make Indian Fry Bread for breakfast. I have to get the grinder down and make some wheat flour first.

Wow! you grind your own flour. Where do you get the grains to do it?

 

[sunflour]

Another attempt at trying to reconstruct my Mom's Cheese Straw Recipe:



I had posted during the holidays that I was trying to reconstruct my mom's recipe & use the same cookie disc she preferred. I had her original recipe and thought they were way too greasy and over the years changed, changed, until they no longer resembled hers..

And lost the original!

And now after a decade have found that my problem was using butter and not a good baking margarine. But the recipe is now long gone 'cause of my revisions.

Today did another google search, made a chart of all the top choices = ones that could be used with a cookie press.
This batch looks promising, I'm not good at the press thing, but almost all at least look ..sorta..like they should..

I didn't photo the real rejects…those have been.. ah..tasted.

I have another similar ratio one to try that uses margarine.

Today read that one should not even taste them for a day….that's why my last try was horrible but the next day were quite good. But I'm on a quest not just for flavor but a texture. Boy, I feel quite stupid…if I had followed her recipe with oleo/margarine I would have saved so, so much heartache.

***this is the first time I could half way use my Mirro press!!!

 

[N F C]

Yum! We use the do the with a herseys kisses on top. Happy anniversary! My husband loves brownies, so that's what I make for special occasions for him. Your cookies sound yummy!

Thanks Alice28. Brownies are good too (DH is a choco-holic so anything chocolatey is good for him)!

 

[N F C]

Another attempt at trying to reconstruct my Mom's Cheese Straw Recipe:



I had posted during the holidays that I was trying to reconstruct my mom's recipe & use the same cookie disc she preferred. I had her original recipe and thought they were way too greasy and over the years changed, changed, until they no longer resembled hers..

And lost the original!

And now after a decade have found that my problem was using butter and not a good baking margarine. But the recipe is now long gone 'cause of my revisions.

Today did another google search, made a chart of all the top choices = ones that could be used with a cookie press.
This batch looks promising, I'm not good at the press thing, but almost all at least look ..sorta..like they should..

I didn't photo the real rejects…those have been.. ah..tasted.

I have another similar ratio one to try that uses margarine.

Today read that one should not even taste them for a day….that's why my last try was horrible but the next day were quite good. But I'm on a quest not just for flavor but a texture. Boy, I feel quite stupid…if I had followed her recipe with oleo/margarine I would have saved so, so much heartache.

***this is the first time I could half way use my Mirro press!!!

sunflour, I would have made the same substitution with the butter for margarine. My grandma always used to bake with lard and I never have so any of her family favorites aren't quite the same. Your cheese straws look good, let us know how they are (tomorrow, I guess?). I still kick myself whenever I think of losing my Mom's old cookie press. I used that thing for years and I just hate that it's gone. Some day might get a new one but it won't be Mom's, you know?

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

Hi Alice28, guess we're on the same baking schedule...I'm baking cookies today too. It's our wedding anniversary so I'm making DH's favorite (peanut butter cookie with a mini peanut butter cup pressed into the top).

Happy Anniversary!!

 

[N F C]

Happy Anniversary!!

Thank you cluckcluckgirl!