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Not By Bread Alone: 52 Loaves
A few weeks ago my friend Michael slipped me his copy of 52 Loaves, a record of William Alexander’s quest to perfect a simple loaf of bread by baking it every week for one year. Alexander’s project...
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Not by Bread Alone:Crumb
From dictionary.com crumb: [kruhm] noun the soft inner portion of a bread (distinguished from crust ). In his book 52 Loaves William Alexander was nearly obsessed with producing a bread that...
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Ten Things of Thankful
What is it about a short week that feels so darned long? I am thankful for the weekend. I am thankful that I decided to bake some sort of bread each week for a whole year as an homage to my mother’s...
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Zucchini Bread
Late summers of my childhood brought bags full of friends’ excess produce from their gardens. Thoughtful folks with far too many vegetables to contend with on their own, graciously remembered all the...
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Not by Bread Alone: Bagels
(I’ve got too many things going…as usual. Sneaking in a bread and an apartment tip today.) When my son first landed on US soil after his trip to China this summer, he called to say he had a list of...
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Portuguese Sweet Bread
After reading William Alexander’s 52 Loaves last summer, I launched my own project making bread of one type or another each week. Between the holidays and being stuck in a rut of bagels and zucchini...
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Easy Cinnamon Bread
I found a really, really delicious recipe for cinnamon bread on Pinterest. The original recipe feeds a large family; it makes five loaves and calls for seventeen cups of flour. I cut the recipe in...
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A Parade of Flour
Last August I started a project, a tribute to my mother really. No meal was complete to mom unless it included bread. After reading William Alexander’s 52 Loaves I set out to bake some sort of bread...
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Sandwich Bread
During my year of bread baking I was on the look-out for a top-notch sandwich bread. The Engineer takes his lunch to work; he always takes a sandwich. Every week day since December 1984 makes for a...
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52 Loaves: Mini-Cinnamon Rolls
Mama Kat Prompt: share a favorite recipe you have been loving. I have already confessed to failing in my undertaking of baking fifty-two loaves of bread during the last calendar year–a challenge...
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