Baking

The Frugality of Fats

“Fat gives things flavor!” – Julia Child The Story of Shortening Fats have come a long way from their primitive beginnings, approx. 25,000 B.C., of rendered animal fats aka lard to the abundance of cooking oils we have today. So let us start somewhere in the…

Feast of Fermentations

“Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” – Matthew 13:33 Yeast of Yesteryear The history of yeast can be traced all the way back…

The Wonderful World of Wheat

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. – Genesis 41:35 Why Store Wheat? Now they say corn in the above scripture. But when thinking in terms…