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Content about Baking powder

December 3, 2008
Start a holiday morning tradition with delicious coffee cake.
Coffee cakes come in two types--leavened by baking powder and/or soda, or by yeast.  The first is what most Americans would call a coffee cake, that tender, cakey variety which is often made with sour cream.  The other kind is more recognizable as cinnamon rolls. This is the sour-cream variety and really couldn't be easier. Inexperienced bakers--that's us--should have no trouble with it.  The result has a tender crumb...
Sometimes I can’t even follow my own train of thought.  I was buying some butcher's twine at a kitchen supply store because I figured it was time to learn how to truss a chicken.  I had skated around the issue for a year or so because Barbara Kafka had told me not to worry about it.  She said it was unnecessary and even detrimental to the cooking process.  But maybe that was just for her high heat method.  Thomas...