What are you baking? June 2025

Sounds wonderful.

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Saving!

I’m going to repurpose my “scone failure” into small pieces for the birds and rabbits in the backyard.

It seems like the rabbits will eat just about anything I put out there. Onion scraps, carrot & potato peels, the tops of celery, etc. They devoured the cucumber peels I put out there after sushi night.

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Leftover pita makes nice croutons

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This is one of my favourite salads! Every time I make it, I always wonder why I don’t have it more often.

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Funnily enough, the one thing I always skip in this salad (which I also love) is pita, because I rarely have one pita hanging around and/or there’s some other bready component in the meal. Actually, I also usually skip the butter and use all olive oil, especially if it we’re ill sir around for a bit.

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Helpful, thanks!

I have used pita chips in that salad.

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Thanks for the suggestion!

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I always avoid (making and eating) desserts dusted with cocoa or icing sugar as they make me cough. Does anyone else have the same problem, or am I unique?

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If all I have is powdered sugar (no butter available), I’ll add a little water, milk or lemon juice and make a thin glaze to put that on top of a dessert.

Like you… I don’t like to dust desserts with powdered sugar, and yes I’ve seen some people cough when powdered sugar is dusted on top.

As far as cocoa powder, I like to make a chocolate butter cream frosting with powdered sugar and a touch of milk. I would NEVER dust anything with cocoa powder.

Another great rhubarb recipe. Rhubarb and blueberry galette. Crust is nice and flakey made with butter and cream cheese. A sprinkle of crushed amaretti cookies. Rhubarb and blueberries mixed with sugar and some cornstarch. Dough is brushed with egg wash and sprinkled with demerara sugar. Absolutely delicious. Recipe is from Sweet @yotamottlenghi&helengoh.

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Thanks for reminding me of this one, I made it a few years ago and really enjoyed it.

ETA, for those without the book:

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Oh man, love the look of this. Right up my alley.

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We’re RICH, I tell you. RICH! A friend gifted me 10 pounds of rhubarb from her 2 overly-productive flower-garden plant patches. She pulled stalks, I snapped off leaves and we filled a large TJ’s reusable grocery bag in about 15 minutes. It’s taken me several hours this evening to wash and cut most of them to fit in gallon bags and I’ll work on cubing and freezing that the next couple of days. I chopped 10 cups worth (2.5 pounds) to make a rhubarb upside down cake for dessert tonight And my favorite rhubarb/TripleSec (orange liqueur) compote/jam is cooling in the fridge. 2 cups is set aside for rhubarb shortbread cookies I’ll bake tomorrow to gift back to my friend.

I’m excited to have such abundance - enough to try a couple new recipes and still revisit all of our old favorites.

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Congratulations! It all sounds fun and satisfying!

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Amazing! Would love to hear about these recipes.

Here’s a question for you (rhubarb) bakers. We found the following recipe in an Icelandic newspaper. It came with favorable reviews, but the amount of sour cream is unclear. One can? We found an Icelandic manufacturer of sour cream selling it in 180 g. packages, so that is our currant best WAG. Any thoughts? FYI the cinnamon and brown sugar are for sprinkling, like a coffee cake.

Rhubarb cake with cinnamon from the countryside:

  • 2 cups sliced rhubarb
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 125 g soft butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 can sour cream
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. Sodium bicarbonate
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. finely ground coffee
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
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A little research suggested 170 grams is the expected volume (I asked Perplexity and looked at the sources it quoted.)

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Also is there a source online for the recipe?