Skip The Store Bakery

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  1. Frank Sanoica

    Frank Sanoica Supreme Member
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    My wife, with her usual pragmatic and correct reasoning, requested (again) that I bake a cake, or something, and refrain from perusing Smith's surplus bakery every few days. True enough, half-priced blueberry or cherry pies at $2.49 are pretty appealing, when they appear. Dreary out this afternoon, a semi-cloudy day, unusual for here, but 70 degrees nonetheless, I set to work.

    I took down my Mother's old (REAL old) recipe box, all metal, which stood in our kitchen as long back as I can remember. Just the right size for index cards, to which she transposed most of her favorite recipes:
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    Always liked one she called "Cherry Bubblecake", where the name came from, I have no idea. I took a can of peach pie filling out of the pantry, deciding to try that. Left out the cinnamon, using cocoa powder instead. One cup of sugar was substituted for by Erythritol. All ready to go in the Microwave:
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    It rose nearly the full height of the pan, recipe uses only Baking Soda:
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    Here and there, tiny bits of peach peek through, but overall, the texture is really nice.
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    I will frost it with cream cheese icing using sugar-free chocolate syrup. That recipe will come from my wife's memory bank! Frank
     
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    A man of many talents. I'll keep going to the bakery since I have so few.
     
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    Great job!!!

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    Good job but , Is that a metal dish you put in the microwave?
     
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    I bake at home and I buy from the bakery the day old baked sweets, etc. which are less than half price and yummy! :)

    And my Honey brings me home free bakery items from where he works part time.

    No matter where I get my sweet treats I almost always share them with my children and grandchildren...who enjoy them as much as I do. :)
     
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    @Holly Saunders
    Good observation, wondered if anyone might ask. It is an unusual gray (grey?) microwavable plastic. Very durable.
    Frank
     
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    ......also, your flour is two years old!:eek:
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    @Joe Riley
    The second test-piece spotted! A good "catch"; it was bought about a week ago. Does flour deteriorate on the shelf?
    Frank
     
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    Only if the lid is not tightly closed and moisture gets in. Why chance it?
     
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  10. Frank Sanoica

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    @Joe Riley
    Yeah, I keep it in screw-top plastic jars, as we use very little flour, my wife is "keto". However, hating to disagree with such a nice guy as yourself, have they not shipped, stored, and sold flour in cloth bags, pervious to all sorts of moisture invasion, for centuries?
    Frank
     
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