I seem to recall James Peterson as a sensible baking author who explains why things are done. Hmmm, I think several of the Bittman books also have baking chapters. And since you always have yogurt around, I'd recommend the Smitten Kitchen yogurt cake as a good plain cake that is easy to customize and experiment with. I usually use part semolina for the flour and bake it in an 8 x 8 pan, which makes nice pieces that can be wrapped for work lunches.
I didn't know James Peterson had written a baking book! I like his other books very much (though some are too professionally-oriented to be useful to me) so I'll see if I can get hold of a copy. Thanks!
Bake Off is SO GOOD. I am glad you have been lured into it's glory. I loved this past week's episode - I would never have thought baguette would be so challenging (to a competent group of bakers, I mean - I would be challenged by it, but of all the things I'd think that group people would struggle with, that would not be it). Paul Hollywood's sapphire-blue eyes control us all (Mary has deep blue eyes too, in fact I think there was a Yuletide request last year suggesting that he was her long-lost son, which was quite fun). There was a Bake Off/Jane Austen crossover, I think, which was fun
(In fact, this: The Great Uppercross Bake Off (1887 words) by Ankaret Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Mary Musgrove, Charles Musgrove, Sir Walter Elliot, William Elliot (Persuasion - Jane Austen), Louisa Musgrove, Henrietta Musgrove, Penelope Clay, Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot, Lady Russell, Captain Benwick Additional Tags: Crossover
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It hadn't even occurred to me that there would be Bake Off fanfic, but I should have known. (I will confess that I have had shippy feelings about Paul Hollywood and the occasional male contestant. And I wouldn't mind fic about Paul and Mary getting drunk together and gossiping and perhaps disastrously attempting to bake something.)
I only wish you all lived close enough that I could invite you over to help me eat all the cakes, etc. I'd like to bake.
Ha, I wished that too, because your food posts always makes my mouth water... Could it be an option to donate cakes to local shelters or soup kitchens or something?
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Bake Off is SO GOOD. I am glad you have been lured into it's glory. I loved this past week's episode - I would never have thought baguette would be so challenging (to a competent group of bakers, I mean - I would be challenged by it, but of all the things I'd think that group people would struggle with, that would not be it). Paul Hollywood's sapphire-blue eyes control us all (Mary has deep blue eyes too, in fact I think there was a Yuletide request last year suggesting that he was her long-lost son, which was quite fun). There was a Bake Off/Jane Austen crossover, I think, which was fun
(In fact, this: The Great Uppercross Bake Off (1887 words) by Ankaret
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Mary Musgrove, Charles Musgrove, Sir Walter Elliot, William Elliot (Persuasion - Jane Austen), Louisa Musgrove, Henrietta Musgrove, Penelope Clay, Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot, Lady Russell, Captain Benwick
Additional Tags: Crossover
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I only wish you all lived close enough that I could invite you over to help me eat all the cakes, etc. I'd like to bake.
Ha, I wished that too, because your food posts always makes my mouth water... Could it be an option to donate cakes to local shelters or soup kitchens or something?
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