2023 Edition - What are you baking?

[dragnlaw]

pepperhead212, am going to ask my friend the next time she goes in to Cornwall to stop by "the pantry" and ask on the protein content.

 

[taxlady]

Never read the article, am satisfied with how I see my answers.
Thought it would help satisfy your understanding of it.

Thank you. I already understand about white whole wheat flour. Do you understand that saying white wheat does not mean whole wheat?

 

[pepperhead212]

I made another similar batch of potato rye these last two days, using a biga, started early Friday, and today, after dinner, I finished making the bread. It has almost 50% rye, plus about 1/3 c gluten, to make up for the high rye to WW ratio. A little to late to try it, but it smells fantastic baking (as always), and that biga smelled nice and sour, after fermenting half the day at room temperature, then in the fridge for another day plus a little.
Potato rye, ready for the oven. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Potato rye bread, just out of the oven. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Potato rye bread, cooling. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[GotGarlic]

I had about a half cup of blueberries left from when my FIL was here - he likes it in his morning cereal. DH and I are not big fans of blueberries, but they're pretty good when they're surrounded by lemon-flavored cake

 

[Marlingardener]

I'm making Cuban bread today. We fell in love with it when in Miami, and I searched and searched for a recipe that duplicated what we had enjoyed. Finally found one, and have been baking Cuban bread for years. One of my husband's favorite breads, along with a half-dozen others!

 

[taxlady]

I had about a half cup of blueberries left from when my FIL was here - he likes it in his morning cereal. DH and I are not big fans of blueberries, but they're pretty good when they're surrounded by lemon-flavored cake
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My DH and I are also not big fans of blueberries. This sounds like an excellent use for the rare occasion we somehow find ourselves in possession of some blueberries.

 

[Andy M.]

SO as making blueberry muffins this morning so I suggested she add a little lemon extract to the mix. She did and That made a tasty muffin!

 

[Cooking Goddess]

...DH and I are not big fans of blueberries...

You can always pass them my way. I will wash some up just to pop them into my mouth like M&M.

 

[pepperhead212]

Be sure you wash those blueberries well, or buy organic - they were added to the Dirty Dozen in 2023, when the list was updated this month.

Blueberries have joined green beans in this year's Dirty Dozen list | CNN

Before you buy fruits and vegetables, consider which ones might contain pesticides that could impact your health. Here is the 2023 Dirty Dozen list of the most contaminated produce tested by the government, along with the Clean 15 list of least contaminated foods.

www.cnn.com

Some I can't figure out why they are sprayed with some of the things they use. My main problem with greens, for instance, is rabbits! Slugs, too, early on. I guess it all depends on location.

 

[Cooking Goddess]

Yeah, Environmental Working Group. Not exactly a reliable font of knowledge. Here's a dirty little article about them:

Environmental Working Group and the dirty dozen

 

[taxlady]

Yeah, Environmental Working Group. Not exactly a reliable font of knowledge. Here's a dirty little article about them:

Environmental Working Group and the dirty dozen

I'm willing to be skeptical, but that podcast really sounded like someone has a personal hate-on for the EWG. I don't know much about them, but they get their data from the Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration. And that podcast failed to mention that the EWG doesn't only have a list of the "Dirty Dozen", it also has a list of the "Clean Fifteen". Are they really suggesting that the organic growers are figuring out which organic fruit and veg they want to promote and which they don't care about? Because, that "Clean Fifteen" list lets you know which ones you don't need to worry about whether or not they are organic. OTOH, when big ag got interested in making extra money by calling stuff "organic", they bullied (lobbied) the government to make a USDA Organic certification. I have read a bit of what that means and I am not willing to pay extra for that. For a lot of things, I am willing to pay extra for organic, by Canadian or European certifications. Some organic stuff (by certifications other than USDA) is surprisingly better tasting than the not organic certified stuff.

 

[GotGarlic]

The Environmental Working Group is an advocacy organization, not a research group. They take the items with the most pesticide residue and present them as "dirty" with no context about what that residue is (beyond simply "pesticides"), how much was found and how that compares to the residue amounts allowed by law. Remember that organic farming uses pesticides, too, and some of them are more dangerous than the synthetic ones that replaced them. But the USDA doesn't report on pesticide residues on organic foods, so you can't compare.

Twelve years ago, the Journal of Toxicology published an article about the misleading methods the EWG uses to scare people.

This is from the abstract:

All pesticide exposure estimates were well below established chronic reference doses (RfDs). Only one of the 120 exposure estimates exceeded 1% of the RfD (methamidophos on bell peppers at 2% of the RfD), and only seven exposure estimates (5.8 percent) exceeded 0.1% of the RfD. Three quarters of the pesticide/commodity combinations demonstrated exposure estimates below 0.01% of the RfD (corresponding to exposures one million times below chronic No Observable Adverse Effect Levels from animal toxicology studies), and 40.8% had exposure estimates below 0.001% of the RfD. It is concluded that (1) exposures to the most commonly detected pesticides on the twelve commodities pose negligible risks to consumers, (2) substitution of organic forms of the twelve commodities for conventional forms does not result in any appreciable reduction of consumer risks, and (3) the methodology used by the environmental advocacy group to rank commodities with respect to pesticide risks lacks scientific credibility.

Dietary Exposure to Pesticide Residues from Commodities Alleged to Contain the Highest Contamination Levels

Probabilistic techniques were used to characterize dietary exposure of consumers to pesticides found in twelve commodities implicated as having the greatest potential for pesticide residue contamination by a United States-based environmental advocacy ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Legitimate scientists are sick of hearing about this group, which is probably why they sound mad lol

 

[pepperhead212]

Sounds like that "Skeptoid Group" would also be the type that would tell us there's no global warming, and maybe no corona virus.

 

[dragnlaw]

LOL, When I buy blueberries it is with the intention of a tart, cereal, hand candy. Well some make it to the cereal but most end up being hand candy!

 

[Andy M.]

Onion bagels today.

 

[GotGarlic]

Sounds like that "Skeptoid Group" would also be the type that would tell us there's no global warming, and maybe no corona virus.

They're not. Their mission is to debunk conspiracy theories and urban legends and to encourage and teach critical thinking. All you have to do is look at the front page of their website to see what they're about.

 

[dragnlaw]

You know pepperhead, I heard that's why it's called 'corona virus'. People who drank corona's without the lemon or lime got sick.

Andy, when you make a batch of bagels, how do you store the extras?'
Freeze, fridge, air tight container?
And I can almost smell them from here, soooo delish looking!

 

[Andy M.]

. . . Andy, when you make a batch of bagels, how do you store the extras?'
Freeze, fridge, air tight container?
And I can almost smell them from here, soooo delish looking!

I wrap the bagels individually in plastic wrap then 4 at a time into a Ziplock freezer bag and into the freezer. Microwave a bagel for 30 seconds ( I have a feeble microwave) then toast.

 

[dragnlaw]

Good to know. Thank You. Bagels are one of the items on my "Never have I ever..." list. One day.
Although when I buy them - I do freeze them in their original plastic sleeve, take one out at a time, zap in micro on defrost, open and toast.
So basically, guess we store them (almost) the same.

 

[blissful]

Whole wheat bread-2 large loaves, 16 slices each.