Category: Bread-Crackers-Sandwiches

The History Of Sourdough For National Sourdough Bread Day

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April 1st is National Sourdough Bread Day. (There’s also an entire month devoted to sourdough: Sourdough September.) Sourdough is an ancient bread made by a long fermentation of dough, using naturally occurring lactobacilli bacteria and wild yeasts (other types of breads use cultivated yeasts, which became available only in the 19th century). In comparison with…
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RECIPE: Grilled Cheese Benedict

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A yummy mash-up of Eggs Benedict and grilled cheese. Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.   April is National Grilled Cheese Month. There are got lots of grilled cheese recipes on TheNibble.com, but here’s something new: a mash-up of a grilled cheese sandwich with Eggs Benedict. The recipe is from the Grilled Cheese Academy, which…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easter Bread

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Tsouréki, a braided yeast loaf with red-colored hard-boiled eggs. Photo courtesy Artisan Bread In Five.   Modern bakers make loaves and rolls shaped like rabbits. But from early times in Europe, rich, festive breads were baked as a celebration of the end of winter. Later they became associated with Easter. Often they were yeast breads,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Hot Cross Buns For Easter

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Homemade hot cross buns. Photo courtesy Hot Bread Kitchen.   With Easter a week away, you can start baking the seasonal treat, hot cross buns. The first recorded use of the term “hot cross bun” appears in 1733. A sweet yeast bun made with raisins or currants, the cross on top was originally made with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Bake Irish Soda Bread

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Having published a recipe for Irish soda muffins for St. Patrick’s Day, we hadn’t planned to feature Irish soda bread this year. Then, we received this recipe from The Baker Chick and realized how much we wanted to tear into a warm loaf of soda bread and slather it with Kerrygold butter from Ireland. So…
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