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Posts Tagged ‘Baking’

Lemon Whippersnappers, Gemaw style

My Gemaw (that’s grandmother to you) makes these. When I was in college, she sent them to me in care packages, and my dorm neighbors would annihilate them. Friends who spotted me carrying a just-so sized box across campus would follow me home. Gemaw’s Lemon Whippersnappers are very lemony, very sweet, and have a lovely [...]

That No-Knead Bread

Just over a year ago, Mark Bittman published the recipe for Sullivan Street bread in the New York Times. It’s basic, slow rise white bread made from a messy, unkneaded dough, though it’s easy enough to vary. I haven’t made any other basic bread since, just brief forays into pizza, naan, and non-yeasted breads. [...]

Fluffy Naan

I’ve been baking a lot of bread lately, but all of it has been 50%-100% whole-wheat bread, using the famous Sullivan NYT recipe. Preparing this naan from a Madhur Jaffrey recipe reminded me of the fun of working dough by hand–and the decadence of white bread prepared with dairy.
I baked my naan on the bottom [...]