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100% Whole White Wheat Sandwich Bread Recipe [vegan] [organic] [bread machine] [Bosch] [KitchenAid]

Recipes listed for single and double loaves for each option: Bread Machine, KitchenAid Mixer or Bosch Mixer I created this recipe out of frustration from dry, leaden and tasteless sandwich whole wheat recipes among the masses. It took many loaves (some inedible) to arrive at what I call the Ultimate WWW Bread Recipe! It is […]

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Perfect Baking 101 (Lesson five) :: Ingredient Temperature

Keeping in line with temperatures…it’s extremely important to heed one important fact: all ingredients must be at room temperature. In order to more perfectly define “room temperature, it refers to about 68º F (unless otherwise stated in the recipe). If you take a combination of ingredients, such as flour, butter and eggs, then try to […]

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Perfect Baking 101 (Lesson Four) :: How to bake things in the oven

Now that you’ve got your rack in the right place, your oven set to the right temperature (lesson two) and your oven preheated correctly (lesson three), we are ready to put something in the oven!! Unless otherwise stated in your recipe, your should always be baking on the middle rack—directly in the middle of the […]

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Perfect Baking 101 (lesson three) :: How to preheat your oven

Ironically, this is probably the one thing that everyone feels is the easiest part of baking—however, great failures occur in this simple step. Now that you’ve got your oven thermometer (lesson one) and you’ve calibrated your oven (lesson two), it’s time to combine the two and learn how to preheat your oven! When your oven […]

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Perfect Baking 101 (Lesson Two): Calibrating your oven

Now that you’ve got your handy oven thermometer (what?? not yet? Well, hop to it—lesson one: get on the perfect baking bandwagon!), you need to be taught how to use it! Okay, yes, it really is as simple as the package says: 1. open package, 2. place on oven rack. Now that we’ve got that covered, […]

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Perfect Baking 101 (Lesson One): Oven Thermometer

  After you go through the effort of pain-stakingly making your cookies and cakes from scratch (from a box is okay, too), to have the goodie fail in the oven is just more than most beginner bakers can bear. It really can be terribly discouraging. The incorrect oven temperature is the leading cause of: burnt […]