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Peanut Butter Bread

Week Twenty: Southern Breads This bread is extremely Southern.  Not that I have fond memories of growing up eating it, or anything; but it’s a quick bread, and Southerners do love a good quick bread.  Everybody’s momma, or grandmomma, or … Continue reading

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Croissants

Week Nineteen: French Breads   You’ve had a croissant; I know you have.  Why on earth would you ever want to make your own croissants?  You can buy them at any old grocery store.  They even come in a tube, … Continue reading

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Anadama Bread

Week Eighteen: 100% Whole Grain Breads Once upon a time, there was a man who lived near Boston, MA.  I think he was a fisherman.  No, wait, a sea captain!  This man had a wife named Anna.  Anna was sweet, … Continue reading

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Honey Bran Muffins

Week Eighteen: 100% Whole Grain Breads Over the course of this blog, I have eaten a lot of bread.  I mean a lot of bread.  And this from someone who has insisted for years that it isn’t dinner if there … Continue reading

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Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Week Seventeen: Bread with Mix-Ins I don’t know if this bread sounds strange to anyone, but the internet knows that zucchini and chocolate are best friends.  At least, when you introduce them properly, they are.  (Please don’t start dipping your … Continue reading

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Balthazar Chocolate Bread

Week Seventeen: Bread With Mix-Ins Here’s my quandary with this bread: the recipe is from Balthazar Bakery in NYC, and I have really been trying to avoid any sort of copyright infringement with the recipes.  I usually adapt them somehow, … Continue reading

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Pecan Currant Bread

Week Seventeen: Bread With Mix-Ins About a month ago, I featured a week of filled breads; that is, breads that have a clear distinction between “bread” and “what-have-you” (e.g., a calzone).  This week, as a sort of complementary theme to that one, … Continue reading

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Hot Cross Buns

Week Fifteen: Scandinavian Breads Easter Bread! I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make hot cross buns for Easter, so here we are.  Unfortunately, I am doing some fairly major renovation/redecorating this weekend, so I don’t have a whole lot … Continue reading

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Limpa Rye

Week Fifteen: Scandinavian Breads Well, it’s Good Friday, which means that Easter is just days away, so I thought this bread was appropriate for today.  You see, Scandinavians are generally big fans of Easter.  Can you guess why?  Maybe it’s … Continue reading

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Chocolate-Filled Multigrain Rolls

Week Thirteen: Filled Breads I remember the first time I ever tried chocolate and bread together.  Now, I’m not talking in a pastry here, like in a chocolate-filled croissant, or a chocolate-chip muffin; I’m talking deep, dark bittersweet chocolate paired … Continue reading

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