Even if you've never baked bread before, I can teach you how to make the most delicious sourdough bread. You don't need a fancy (or expensive!) bread machine, and you don't need exotic kitchen tools. In fact, you don't have to know anything more than how to use a measuring cup. Baking bread is just about as fundamental as this country. Men and women (and even young boys and girls) baked bread to sustain themselves, their families, and to provide a living for themselves. Bread has been baked by an open hearth, in a brick oven, in outdoor kiln ovens, and even in skillets over an open fire. Bread is part of most everyone's daily culture. Baking bread is a time-honored process---and if done as such, baking can be a stress-relieving and self-satisfying task...read the rest of "History of Jan's Dough"
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...one bowl, one wooden spoon, and my two hands...
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Jan's Tips for Baking, Cooking, and Around the Kitchen
Use this handy index of tips to help you with all your baking, cooking, and other kitchen-related projects! Many include free printable versions that do not contain colors, ads, and other graphics. Please feel free to share these tips with your friends!
Don't forget that Jan's Dough offers free recipes for creating Sourdough Starter and Sourdough Bread! Go to: Sourdough Starter and Basic Sourdough Bread Recipe.
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"...there's a little bit of
fruitcake in every one of us..."
by Jimmy Buffett
Tip #2 - Baking for the Holidays
Tip #5 - Getting the Best Zest From Lemon Peel
Tip #6 - Keep Cooked Ground Meat in the Freezer
Tip #7 - Keep Your Microwave Clean the Easy Way
Tip #8 - Prepare for a Busy Baking Day
Tip #9 - Keep Kitchen Scissors Handy!
Tip #10 - Measuring Equivalents
Tip #11 - How to Chop Raisins, Cherries, or Other Fruits
Tip #12: How to Baking Dishes and Roasting Pans Clean
Tip #13: Ways to Use Applesauce
Tip #14: Sparkle Up Your Glassware
Tip #15: Start Planning Your Holiday Baking for Gift-Giving
Tip #16: How to Shred Lettuce or Cabbage
Tip #17: Making Pie Crust...even if you don't know how!
Tip #18: The Secret to Crimping Pie Crust
Tip #19: Wrapping Loaves of Bread to Give as Gifts
Tip #20 - Make Cloverleaf Rolls from Your Favorite Bread Recipe
Tip #22 - Use Your Favorite Coffee Cake Recipe to Make Muffins
Are you new to baking bread? The Jan's Dough can help with easy-to-follow illustrated instructions!
- Illustrated Instructions for Creating Jan's Dough Sourdough Starter (This is a day-by-day pictorial diary of the sourdough starter being created.)
- Making Bread...it's easier than you think! (This is a fully illustrated tutorial for making Jan's Dough Sourdough Bread.)
Do you have a question about making bread by hand? Are you having trouble with figuring out how to get bread dough to "rise"? Not sure if you can even make bread?
Questions are answered personally by Jan as time permits, so please allow 24-48 hours for a reply (usually sooner, but no guaranteed).