# Anyone baking more than before? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024 "2020-04-04T03:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/61 "2020-04-08T03:17:50Z")
Heh, even though my wife’s on a diet, I convinced her to make some home made biscuits on Sunday to accompany the fried chicken we were making. It was at least a day and a half of chicken biscuit heaven, but we only have one biscuit left (yes, I ate all the chicken by the end of yesterday), that I plan to have for breakfast if she doesn’t succumb to the pleasures of the bread before that. We’ve got a little yeast, but rather than try to grow it, I’m thinking about starting a sourdough starter. At least that will give my sweetie a break before I launch another home-baked bread fest on her diet. Maybe by then I’ll have done something magical that will merit home fried chicken again. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/62 "2020-04-08T03:34:36Z")
We’ve not baked much and we’re not baking much more now, partly because lazy, partly conserving propane, and partly avoiding excess carbs not in liquid form. When weather allows I may be tempted to start a campfire, roll dough onto a green cedar branch, and cook scout bread. And I think I saw an Instant Pot cornbread recipe to try. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/63 "2020-04-08T12:18:56Z")
Heh, I baked cornbread (Krusteaze). Perfect accompaniment to my gf’s venison chilli that simmered all day in the oven. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/64 "2020-04-08T12:41:31Z")
I’m baking more because I have the time; I’m baking like it’s summer break. Also, me and my wife and now my fifth-grade daughter are all stress-bakers, so our house is pretty full. Since mid-March, we’ve made 8 loaves of bread, four pizzas, 18 puff pastry samosas, two cakes, a batch of cookies, and probably some other stuff I’m forgetting. We’ve gone through 15 lbs of flour and have another 15 on the counter. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/65 "2020-04-08T15:24:21Z")
I got yeast! I scored some yeast at the store today! I went out to the store today partly to get a few things I was out of, and also to drop off face masks for my coworkers manning the place today. Went during the “first responders and essential workers” hour today hoping the shelves would be stocked. Turns out they had a few jars of yeast in the baking aisle. Last planned excursion to a store until I go back to work Saturday. I now have more yeast than flour, but plenty of flour. I’ll pick more up as it becomes available. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/66 "2020-04-08T16:37:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Here’s a brownie recipe I’ve posted over in this week’s MMP. > > 7 ounces softened butter > 1 cup + 6.5 tablespoons sugar > 3 eggs > 8.5 tablespoons cocoa powder > 10.5 tablespoons flour > > Cream butter and sugar, then blend in eggs. Add cocoa powder and flour and blend well. Spread in an 8"x8" greased pan and bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. It takes almost 50 minutes in my oven, but I think it’s off, so start checking around forty. Or a little less time consuming: 1-1/4 cups + 2-1/2 TBSP sugar 1/2 cup + 1/2 TBSP cocoa powder 1/2 cup + 2-1/2 TBSP flour 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/67 "2020-04-08T17:07:19Z")
I’m baking all our bread. Really like it. I was buying from Panera. OK but my loaves are much better. I’m out of bread flour. Do have some vital wheat gluten on order. But then it won’t take long to use up the remaining all-purpose. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/68 "2020-04-08T18:48:26Z")
How bad do things have to get before people are grinding their own grains to make flour? ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/69 "2020-04-08T19:53:04Z")
[Yeast is currently in stock at Costco in 2 lb. packages.](https://www.costco.com/red-star-active-dry-yeast,-32-oz.product.100441883.html) It keeps basically forever in the freezer. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/70 "2020-04-08T21:23:34Z")
Several of my friends grind their own for fun. The bread is fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/71 "2020-04-08T22:20:23Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How bad do things have to get before people are grinding their own grains to make flour? I bought a grain mill ages ago when I was baking all my family’s bread. Buying wheat was much cheaper than buying whole wheat flour. I have used it for making cornmeal, as well. Bread from freshly ground wheat is even better than regular fresh baked bread. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/72 "2020-04-09T11:45:36Z")
Cool! I never thought there’d be grain grinders here. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/73 "2020-04-09T11:56:19Z")
Due to shopping shortages, I’m reduced to Bisquick pancakes in the morning. But I’m playing with the mix a bit, a little added baking soda helps. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/74 "2020-04-09T14:16:46Z")
Not for the next eight days. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/75 "2020-04-09T15:00:47Z")
What about crackers? I hear you can whip up the batter for those in less than 16 minutes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/76 "2020-04-10T13:47:00Z")
And… a loaf of bread and eight rolls this morning. Good thing I got more yeast - this latest batch used up the last of my old stash. Went for plain white using bread flour today. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/77 "2020-04-10T14:04:21Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Not for the next eight days. 😃 What is the proper greeting for Passover? Happy…? Best wishes? Mazel Tov? Shalom? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/78 "2020-04-10T14:40:25Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > What about crackers? I hear you can whip up the batter for those in less than 16 minutes. 😉 My stepson-in-law tried making home-made matzoh last year. It tasted fine, but was a lot of trouble. Much easier to buy the boxed stuff. (Nitpick: it’s 18 minutes, not 16.) > [@CelticKnot](#): > > What is the proper greeting for Passover? Happy…? Best wishes? Mazel Tov? Shalom? Happy Passover is fine, or you can say Chag Sameach (“joyous festival”). Clear your throat where you see “ch”, like _loch_ in Gaelic or _achtung_ in German, and the second word is pronounced sa-MAY-ach. Here’s even more from [Chabad](https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/3584633/jewish/How-to-Wish-Happy-Passover-in-Hebrew-and-Yiddish.htm). ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/79 "2020-04-10T16:41:37Z")
My husband goes through a lot of flour in normal times, and so we are going through even more now. I am finding that you can get AP flour but bread flour just doesn’t exist. However, you can get vital wheat gluten, and apparently that turns AP flour into bread flour very easily. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024/80 "2020-04-10T18:02:35Z")
My 15 year old is just learning how to use the icing tools he got in a kit for Christmas. He made this cake a few days ago. For his first cake I think he did an outstanding job! [https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPXunQtS3IWlRUuerKIZACzCFjj3W2d64kXJk2m](https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPXunQtS3IWlRUuerKIZACzCFjj3W2d64kXJk2m) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-baking-more-than-before/851024.md?page=5)