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Website With Extensive Collection Of Accessible Early American Cookbooks

April 6, 2009 - 5:15pm -- baltochef
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In an ongoing effort to try and track down the origin of my grandmother's Devil's Food cake recipe I stumbled across the following website..It is a partnership between Michigan State University and the MSU Museum titled, Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project..The cookbooks are available to be viewed several ways, including pdf's..The cookbooks encompass the late 18th Century through the early 20th Century..I found the cookbooks, and the recipes in them to be fascinating..

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A bread bakers mystery novel

March 30, 2009 - 12:03pm -- Marni
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My mother reads mysteries by the author Lou Jane Temple.  Recently she brought one over that she thought I would like.  ( I'm not a mystery fan)  It is called Bread on Arrival, and as the title suggests, it is a bit of a hokey story.  But the fun part is that the author weaves the story around artisan bread baking.  The murder(s) occur in Kansas during a convention of professional artisan bakers. 

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Mystery of page 249 solved.

February 10, 2009 - 3:56pm -- LindyD
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I've been curious why Jeffrey Hamelman's unkneaded six-fold French bread appears at page 249 in some copies of his book, "Bread," while other copies show a recipe for beer bread.

So I went to the KFA baking circle forum and asked the question.  A nice member there e-mailed King Arthur and received the following response from Jeffrey Hamelman:

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Looking for online reading

January 31, 2009 - 2:03pm -- gijose
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Hey,

I picked up the BMA and rather than pick up some more books, I'd rather find out what I can on the internet.  I've been browsing around, found The Artisan site, and I've been looking at a lot of topics on these forums.  Are there any other sites where I can find substantial reading, whether on technical details of baking, or about basics of bread making?  Any by-hand specific tutorials around?

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Wanted - a technical book about flour, yeast etc

January 19, 2009 - 4:19am -- saxmund
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I am currently using Karen Saunders' The Breadmaker Bible, and tend to have a look on the internet for other recipes.

However it would be useful to have a book that goes a bit more into how flour, yeast etc "works", to answer questions such as Is Spelt more or less absorbent than bread flour?  How much salt do I need?  Of course trial and error is fun, but this would help to keep the disasters to a minimum.

Is there such a book on the market?  Most simply run through the ingredients and then give you loads of recipes, which can be more or less easy to adapt.

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