What are you baking? January 2026

Interesting! I hadn’t seen that version. The recipe is pretty close to where I’m at now, sans the maple syrup and the diastatic malt (I use barley malt syrup as a sweetener on occasion, and always in the boil).

I do appreciate her tip to keep the bagels from sticking to the parchment after the overnight rest. I’ve been struggling with that. I’ll try a little corn meal next time. I expect it will help.

Nice, good luck! Sir Lancelot is, typical of KAF, great stuff, but I never want to see it again: I bought a 50lb bag during COVID at one point, because I couldn’t get normal bread flour, I was feeling impatient, and I may have had a glass or two of wine before hitting the internet. That bag lasted a long, long time…only so many bagels I could make.

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:rofl: Covid!!!

I ended up with 50# sack of artisan flour from another mill back then (can’t recall the name now) - it was all I could get at the time. Lasted forever!

Fortunately, KAF sells the Sir Lancelot in 3-lb. bags now.

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I still have random bags of flours in the freezer from covid. I don’t bake with exotic flours but I guess I was desperate.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. We’re still trying to get through the canned salmon and smoked oysters from Covid. Slowly but surely…

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Those look nice!

I was just searching HO for oatmeal cookie ideas

I started the day planning to make blondie’s white chocolate and dried cherries again, but as I started looking at add ins I realized I wanted oatmeal.

I usually make some sort of jam bars, but now I’m thinking of maybe something like this

I’m adding yours to the list, but am also considering a few others I found here on HO.

So far these ..

and these

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Thank you! I haven’t calculated hydration-- I used this recipe, but because of the whole grain flour it seemed a little dry, I added more water by feel. Should have made a note! Original recipe would be 68.42% if I remember high school math correctly.

I’d call that one 71.42% – I think you left out the flour and water in the starter. Anyway I was going to say, you could nudge that number up a little bit, and it will result in a softer crust. Given that you’re getting great results already I’d mess with that very slowly if you decide to, maybe 3-4% per attempt.

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@shrinkrap , this is the recipe I followed. I must have had a moment.

This Norwegian recipe has more oats and less sugar than the American Oatmeal Lace recipes on FB and various blogs that tend to be closer to 1:1 oatmeal to sugar.

It makes a crispy buttery cookie with a texture close to a Florentine.

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Ok–yea, I don’t know how to calculate that :rofl:

This is my favorite recipe, which my friend makes:

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The crust on this was quite thin – almost to where it was hard to cut without crushing the slice. IDK if that’s a good or bad thing; I know very little about sourdough to be honest! Have just watched a few videos and got a decent starter from a crash course a local lady gave.

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I think that I might have made the Claire Saffitz recipe, trying to use up some pecans? From what I recall it was a project, but also a big hit.

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Good or bad is purely your preference! Keep up the good work and get a sharper knife if you’re crushing the bread too much :laughing:

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Not a baker but will second that! Mangled some bread last summer, considered how old my bread knife was, bought a new one, and was astounded at the difference.

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Gingerbread blondies, this is a wonderful recipe from a cookbook I got from the library years ago that now seems to be out of print.

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Thank you!

I’m reading it might be worth it just for the brittle!

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That’s been on my list – I’ll take this excuse :grin:

Just GORGEOUS!

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