Comments on: i never knew i could do this

By: Marianne

Marianne — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:37:39 +0000

This is a recipe for Apple Cake. I got it from an elderly Italian lady who used to climb the Appennines as a young girl. She still walks 3 miles/day and at a rapid clip. She can easily climb better than someone 20 years younger than her. This cake can be frozen after it is baked.

Apple Filling: 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla, ¾ tsp. cinnamon, ½ tsp. nutmeg, 3 lbs. apples, ½ cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Dough: 3 c. flour, 1 tsp. bkg. Pwdr, 2 sticks butter-softened, 1 c. sugar, 1 egg, pinch of salt
Apple filling: Mix together sugar, van., cinn. & nutmeg. Peel and thinly slice apples & add to mixture. Set aside.
Make Dough: Mix together flour, bkg. powder, butter, sugar & egg until crumbly.
Put half of dough into a 10 inch spring form pan. Place it on the bottom & ¾ up the sides of the pan. Add the apple filling. Crumble the remaining dough on top. Bake for 1 hr. at 350. Cool in the pan.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:45:56 +0000

Oh, you have success with bread in the Dutch oven. Good for you.! I have baked a lot of bread the usual way. I even baked French bread with Julia’s recipe. Mmmmm.
But success with bread in the Dutch oven has eluded me. You will have to tell me your secret.

By: PJ Amyouny Gerrard

PJ Amyouny Gerrard — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:38:24 +0000

That bread looks fantastic, and I will try it for next Italian dinner. We make bread in my house several times weekly in a work horse of a metal Breadman breadmaker. It is very easy and we often use Bob’s Mill bread mixes (Rye and 10 grain are favorites)as they are cheap and low-glycemic, as well as delish. Give it a try.

Can you share you pie crust recipe? My baking skills are still in the on the lower end of my cooking range, and as proud new owner of a Kitchenaid stand mixer, I am learning new recipes.

By: Whitemist

Whitemist — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:59:37 +0000

Good for you on you success!
Fresh bread is so wonderful!
The 40 cloves of garlic chicken is a very old (2,500 years or so) Greek recipe (at least that is what my mom says and she is old, okay maybe not that old, but…)
The bread thing, I may want to try some day, but I have just done my first ever baklava (which is in my estimation harder) and not in the mood to be real creative in the kitchen for a little bit.
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