Different Fresh Pumpkin Baking Methods

Tips for Baking with Fresh Pumpkin

My mother always grows pumpkins in her yard every year. Mixed in among her flowers and plants are big globes of orange scattered here and there, looking like the remnants of a basketball game. I swear my mother can plant a Pepsi can and grow a whole field of Pepsi with no effort at all. …

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Healthy Soy Coffee Cake Recipe

Healthy Soy Coffee Cake Recipe

For those of us with celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or grain allergies, soy flour is a wonderfully useful baking ingredient. Like other bean-and pea flours, such as chick-pea flour, it has a consistency that lends itself to quick breads. Unlike chick-pea flour, however, it has a mild non-obtrusive taste that blends beautifully into baking recipes. …

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Tips For Baking with Different Types of Flour

Cake or All-Purpose Flour? A Taster's Test

Last year, I started baking again. It’d been years since I baked, even then it was mostly with cake mixes. But over the holidays, I decided to try my hand at baking from scratch. Baking is an exact science, one that requires every ingredient measured exactly as the recipe calls for it. Otherwise you’ll have …

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