Issue #35 Take A Breath
On your mark, get set, BAKE!
They’re coming.
Actually no, they’re here.
The catalogs from the dream merchants.
King Arthur Flour, William Sonoma, Lehmans, Pampered Chef, Vermont Country Store, Webstaurant Store...
Tempting us with molds and cookie stamps and specialty pans and pie weights and proofing buckets and ramekins and measuring tools and thermometers and spatulas and cake lifters and turntables and decorating sugars and exotic flavorings and food colorings and gelatin leaves and French Flour and Belgian Chocolate and Fleur De Sel and yeast from I don’t know where but it’s better…
We can bake like the professionals!
Just in time for the holidays!
Yay!
Do you have the storeroom of a professional?
I don’t.
But, thanks to my baking and shopping addiction, and my mother’s baking and shopping addiction, I think I need one.
Let’s start with the cake pans.
Springform and layer cake pans and Bundt pans and square pans and angel food cake pans and cupcake pans and weird little molds for small cakes shaped like shells or bees or flowers or ears of corn or little rectangles for something that, according to the Great British Baking Show, are called “financiers”.
The bread pans for baguettes and those for round loaves and square loaves and long loaves and short loaves and big loaves and small loaves and something called Pain De Mie and another one just for “milk bread”.
The 3000 cookie cutters.
The 4 cubic feet of pie and tart making supplies.
And I haven’t even mentioned the gadgets.
The pizzelle irons, the cookie presses, the mixers (yes, I have more than one) the automatic apple peelers and corers, the pasta maker, the 75 pasta maker attachments.
OOF!
I really do love baking and cooking from scratch.
And it’s very cool to be blessed with the amazing array of equipment I mostly inherited from my mother.
But.
Every cabinet in my kitchen is packed to the gills.
I have even taken to sneaking a couple extra cabinets onto the back porch.
Soon I will seriously have to add on another room.
Or actually buy a bigger house…
(OK it’s not 3000 but it’s a lot!)
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Baking Inspiration
The garden is officially “caput” for the season so instead, I’ll be posting some of my favorite bakes.
This is a Chocolate and Orange Babka my daughter and I made.
It was delicious!
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