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Chocolate Stout Beer Bread

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Beth

Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! For today’s beer bread variation, I decided to play around with flavorings more than type of ingredient.  I knew I wanted to try using a dark beer, like a stout, but I also wanted to … Continue reading →

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Pear Ginger Bread

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Beth

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

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Beth

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

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Beth

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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Mango Honey Bread

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Beth

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

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Beth

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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Mint Chocolate Muffins

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Beth

Week Twenty-Two: Breads With Herbs Oh, mint and chocolate.  Two flavors, each so wonderful on its own, but elevated to the euphoric when combined.  Admit it – unless you’re a robot, you probably like mint and chocolate.  Vanilla may rule … Continue reading →

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Gluten-Free Almond Honey Bread (Or Cake)

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Beth

Week Twenty-One: Gluten-Free Breads Okay, you guys.  This week, I have literally been counting my blessings, thanking my lucky stars, and everything in between, that I do not have celiac disease.  Not that I’m saying anything about lifestyle choices, or what … Continue reading →

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Gluten-Free Blueberry Almond Muffins

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Beth

Week Twenty-One: Gluten-Free Breads One of the bonuses of trying to adapt a quick bread recipe to gluten-freedom is that gluten is undesirable in wheat-flour items of this nature.  So theoretically, if you replace the wheat flour in, say, blueberry … Continue reading →

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Monkey Bread

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Beth

Week Twenty: Southern Breads   Is monkey bread Southern?  If I’m honest, it’s not actually Southern in origin, nor is its popularity confined purely to below the Mason-Dixon line.  In fact, it’s quite popular all across the country, mainly as a … Continue reading →

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