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Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes a Day (no. 5)

February 8th, 2011 · 51 Comments · Recipes

Pin It I haven’t wanted to give a recipe a zero and tear up the paper and throw it in the garbage in front of the whole class since I started this Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread challenge, but this one just about pushed me over the edge. There I was, heart rate [...]

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Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Our Favorite “Happy” Rolls (no. 4)

February 1st, 2011 · 76 Comments · Recipes

Pin ItSometimes the answer might be right under your nose. I’m pretty sure this recipe is the winner so far in my book, and it’s one I’ve made for a few years now as rolls and hamburger buns. It’s featured as THE soaked bun recipe in the Family Camping Handbook. I found it at The [...]

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Katie’s Basic Bread Baking Techniques (or lack thereof)

January 19th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Do It Yourself

Pin ItI come from a long history of amazing bread bakers, believe it or not. My Busia (Polish grandmother, 100%!) raised nine children and made all of her own bread, well over 5 loaves a week. Maybe 9? She kneaded it in a huge bread pan at her feet while she sat on a stool. [...]

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Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Sweet and Simple (no. 1)

January 5th, 2011 · 50 Comments · Recipes

Pin It Welcome to the inaugural recipe in the Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread series here at Kitchen Stewardship! The first bread recipe I’m going to share with you is one that I fiddled with in December, testing it a number of different ways to find out how flexible it was. I still [...]

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Introducing Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread

January 4th, 2011 · 70 Comments · Recipes

Pin It My sourdough starter may suffer for this, but I’ve been testing out yeasted breads for you all lately. I’ve got a number of recipes up my sleeve and more to come, and only a few loaves that have turned out concave. It is my fervent goal to find the perfect homemade whole wheat [...]

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Sourdough Recipes Galore: Honey Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread

March 12th, 2010 · 74 Comments · Do It Yourself, Recipes

Pin It Patience. Patience is key when baking sourdough bread. You have to wait for your starter to mature.  You have to wait for the dough to rise.  Sometimes you have to wait longer than the recipe says and beg a little.  Sometimes you even have to wait to make loaf number one into croutons [...]

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GIVEAWAY: Urban Homemaker’s Magical Tinware Bread Pans

March 9th, 2010 · 311 Comments · Uncategorized

Pin ItAs we poke along through the less intensive sourdough recipes this week, we’re moving toward the grand finale on Friday: the whole wheat bread.  Whole wheat bread is notorious for being dense, flat, and difficult to work with.  Sourdough adds the complication of a very slow rise. I will tell you everything I’ve learned [...]

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