Apologies, first of all. I've been coping with less than ideal circumstances for baking lately and so have a touch of hiatus. Namely, a housemate who thinks the kitchen--the sacred hearth from which we feed ourselves--is a smoking den. It is, decidedly, not. But what can one reasonably do with the unreasonable? And by "unreasonable," I mean someone [...]
Let's talk more about pound cake. Namely, its history and origins. I'd almost included this in my last post, but self control and restraint overtook me. Why throw away a perfectly good topic for a new post, afterall? Like much of American food generally, pound cakes originate in Britain, possibly as early as the 16th [...]
I was not endowed with one of those proverbial grandmothers who can cook. Mine was never one, in the words of Pappy O’Daniel, “to fry up some flapjacks or bake a mess of biscuits,” or a mess of anything except a mess. Unless, of course, those flapjacks or biscuits happened to come packaged or in [...]
Matthew's Been Baking 