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How to Make a Sour Dough Starter (Tutorial)

One thing I have been longing to master for quite a while now is to make a working Sour Dough Starter that I can use to make my own bread with.  We are experiencing a shortage of yeast at the moment (and flour and sugar for that matter) so creating something like a sour dough starter is a skill we can all use.  I had tried once before with NO success.  I thought I would try again and I watched quite a few videos on You Tube and finally felt secure enough that I thought I could master it. (Fingers crossed)  What I am sharing with you today is the result of about two weeks trial and error and finally SUCCESS!   I think the real key to my success this time was using filtered water. The time before I had used tap water. I had no idea that the chlorine etc. in tap water would have a hug impact on the success of your starter.  This was something that I learned this time and it was a real boon to my success.  I just used bottled filtered water that you c...

Christmas Cake 2019 (tutorial)

  It was a really gloomy day around here today (Wednesday as I write this) and I thought I would decorate my cake for Christmas.  I have been diligently feeding it since I baked it and I was afraid that if I left it any longer it wouldn't get done.  Christmas is less than a week away after all!   This year I took the easy route and didn't do anything complicated.  I am not the most skilled person in the world when it comes to sugar craft.  I ordered a cake topper and ribbon from an on line cake supply company back in October.  Easy peasy and I love the rustic look of a red vehicle with a tree on top! The first step in decorating/icing your Christmas cake is filling in the holes that inevitably show up, being left behind from raisins, etc. that drop out of the cake. I just pinch off little pieces of marzipan and stuff them into the holes.  This results in a much smoother finish for the fondant you will be adding at the end.  Once you have...