….Baking is Becoming Cool
1. As we become increasingly aware of eating better and healthier, doing your own baking is a much better choice. You know decide the ingredients you want to use. Instead of refined sugar, you can use brown sugar. Instead of shortening, you can use butter.
2. When you bake at home, you know everything is fresh. The bread is soft and chewy because it just came out of the oven; not because of some artificial preservative that lets grocers keep bread on the shelf for a week.
3. As the prices for wheat continue to climb so will the cost of baked goods that you purchase from a grocery store or bakery. The price of bread, for example, has jumped 50% in the past year - and there’s little chance prices are coming down soon. If you bake at home, however, you cut easily cut your prices in half.
4. There’s nothing like baked goods coming out of the oven. More than anything, it’s the smell that permeates your home and draws you into the kitchen looking for something delicious.
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June 25th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Nice fishing post! I went fishing for the first time last week in a little creek and surprised myself by catching a 4 lb. trout! Everybody was shocked, especially all the fishermen. I guess I got lucky.
One note about your baking post. You suggest using brown sugar instead of refined sugar. Strangely enough, brown sugar is merely white refined sugar with a couple drops of molasses added back into it to make it a little denser and give it a brown color. Its marketing trickery if you ask me! I have been going without refined sugar all year, due to my new year’s resolution, so I have spent hours researching everything there is to know about sugar. The rabbit hole is deep. Sugar/Corn syrup is in EVERYTHING. I agree that homemade bread is the BEST!