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Connie’s Brave New World

  This is the first of what will be my weekly blog post  It is truly a new frontier for me.  I left the corporate world before the birth of Windows, laptops, Blackberries and Google and after years of...

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Dough Mixing 101

If I were a gambler, I would bet heavily that Billy Joel never baked a loaf of bread. However, one of his most famous lyric is one of my favorite dough mixing montras, “Get it right the first, that’s...

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Singing the praises of Foccacia

Foccacia is one of my favorite breads for several reasons.  Firstly, it was the first bread that I made on my own because of its simplicity.  At the time of my maiden bread baking voyage, I was still...

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Fresh Start(er)

  While the nation and pratically the world is basking in the glow of the inauguration of a new President and the opportunity for a fresh start, my mind wanders to a fresh start of a different kind....

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Starter: Lesson 1

You have begun a starter, or levain, and have been living with it for a week, it is time to put it to work.   A starter can be used in any bread recipe, adding a small amount, perhaps 1/2 cup for a...

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Fresh Yeast

Recently, I have had two conversations, with two different bakers, about yeast.  Dry, fast acting yeast.    Both bakers were voicing their dissatisfaction with the results they were attaining.  One...

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Connie

   ©pamela weekes Connie is one of the owners here at the bakery. She gives us all great direction and fine tunes all of our skills when it comes to baking. Besides being lots of fun having around, she...

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