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This Easter we are having smoked baby back ribs and smoked chicken with pasta and potato salads, Cole slaw and smoked BBQ beans.  Not our usual Easter fare but that means we needed a good whitish SD bread to replace the usual Wonder Bread that comes with Kansas City, MO  BBQ.

I've been working on the same formula for a while.  I think I'm slowly getting there.

Fresh pesto.

Ready for the freezer and a week's worth of toast.

Happy Easter!

A little bit late but I wanted to tell you about Italy Depot.com where I just bought 5lb of the above flour, shipped free! I checked the site this morning and the price was $12.95, and they have larger sizes and other types. I am anxious to try Roberta's pizza dough since reading the NY Times article posted on TFL and didn't want to buy a huge amount of OO flour. It was securely packed and arrived quickly and the site is easy to cope with. A.

So last year when this little project began I wanted to work with untested formulas and move on week to week.  I've decided that this year I'll go back and fine tune some of my favorites that can sure use a little tweaking.  I'm sure I'll throw together some new formulas as well but this sounds like more fun.

Here is the Italian Easter bread we found online to bake with the GMA’s, also less widely known as The 3 Twisted Sisters.  http://crumbsoflove.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/pizza-civitavecchia-italian-easter-sweet-bread/

Hi,

I've been baking bread for a year or two now. This site has been a great resource and although I haven't commented very much I have absorbed a great deal of knowledge from many of the posters here.

I've made a few nice loaves recently, so I thought I would share some photos. More importantly, I'm starting to feel more confident in my ability to produce consistent results, which is a great feeling. I'm starting to understand how the dough is supposed to feel, and what to expect at various stages.

We don’t really celebrate Easter here in my country, so I totally forgot about it until last week

when my friend asked me to bake some breads for it.

Although I know there are some traditional kind of Easter bread
I’ve decided to just go with visual fun route because people here are not familiar with them anyway.

And, here they are...

Well i got a lot of free time on my hands these days.  Believe it or not I'm baking more and more at home.  Figured I'd share a couple bakes I did this week.  I had a friend pass through from NY on a vacation and had to make her some bread.  Then I had a meeting a different week and thought well I might as well make them some bread.  And so Rachael's Rye (a spin on the 20% Rye from T3) and a Semolina Porridge Bread.  Both were quite good.  The Rye is more of a multigrain than a Rye even at 20% Rye but it's quite delicious.

With hot cross buns on the bake list it has to be Good Friday.  Last years version lasted 11 months in the freezer having finished off the last one a month ago – tasted great by the way.

Let's face it: you can look at a Google's worth of Baking Powder Biscuit recipes, and with the exception of small variations in flour, shortening, and liquid ratios they are pretty much carbon copies of each other.

Here's the one I've finally settled on after baking a few hundred buttermilk biscuits with small tweaks in the flour: shortening ratio.

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Buttermilk Biscuits

Ingredients:

480g             All-purpose flour (4 cups)