Monthly Archives: June 2009

Pear Ginger Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit Quick, name a flavor that goes perfectly with a pear!  If you said “ginger”, you get a gold star.  Pear and ginger are best friends, you guys.  It’s true!  If you’ve never tried the combination … Continue reading

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Chocolate Apricot Yeast Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit The bread for today is an unusual chocolate bread.  Most chocolate breads that I’ve made get their flavor from either cocoa powder sifted into the flour, from bits of chocolate mixed into the dough, or … Continue reading

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Apple Challah

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruits I know, this is not a braided bread.  Therefore, some might say it’s not “real” challah.  But in the parlance of our times, challah refers to any fairly standard egg-rich, sweet bread made with water only, so … Continue reading

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Blueberry Oatmeal Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruits Blueberries are one of my all-time favorite foods.  I love the little snap as you bite through the skin, I love their jammy, almost-tart sweetness, I love the way they stain your fingers and lips.  … Continue reading

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Mango Honey Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit I wasn’t kidding yesterday, when I mentioned making a sourdough bread with mangoes.  I recently stumbled across this recipe on the King Arthur Flour website, and I just had to try it.  The original didn’t … Continue reading

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Focaccia di Frutti

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit Fruit is one of those foods that you don’t generally associate with yeast bread.  Well, I don’t, anyway.  I’m not a big jelly or jam fan (with the exception of my Nanny’s grape jelly, which … Continue reading

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