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Stern Sprouted Wheat Vegan Cookie or Health Bar Type Things

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Food, How-to, Recipes, Wheat
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...ot get so dry that they turn hard and crumbly. Mine were done in 1 hour and 45 minutes, and my oven runs cool. When done they will have a little color and will hold together, but will be soft to the bite. These need to be wrapped up and stored in the fridge. The ingredients. It looks like Heidi’s breakfast. The grind The dough Rolling out with parchment Just out of the oven *Bonus: How to Sprout Grains Start by measuring your grain into a bowl and...

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2013 in Review Part I

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Thoughtstylings
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...it should rain. It didn’t. The year was the driest on record: 3.6 inches, making it a desert not the Mediterranean climate it should be. It seems to be a dry winter again this year and I’m worried. March A texting music video producer totaled our car and thus began a six month experiment in living without a car in Los Angeles. That experiment ended in September when we bought a car. Living in LA without a car was easier than I thought it would be...

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Does Sourdough Offer Hope for the Gluten Intolerant?

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Bread, Fermentation, Food
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...uickly. But even before Pasteur, bakers used the yeast remaining from beer making (also a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to make doughs rise. Sourdough cultures are not as powerful and predictable, so it’s understandable that commercial bakers would want a more dependable alternative. What is in a sourdough culture? There are many strains of yeast in sourdough cultures, but the main one is Candida milleri. Candida milleri is tolerant of highl...

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Can Whole Wheat Solve the Wheat Allergy Problem?

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Bread, Food
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...his classes for amateur bakers, is showing how tasty baked goods can be that are made from real whole wheat flour. But it’s tricky. High extraction whole wheat flours are a lot less uniform than white flours. And they suck up a lot of water when you use them for making bread. As the co-founder of the Los Angeles Bread Bakers I get the gluten sensitivity question a lot which is why I’m interested in hearing from readers. Do you have a wheat or glut...

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Dovetails by Hand

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Design
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...d, outdated hand skills just for the sake of those skills. You can make perfectly serviceable drawers entirely by machine but if you have the time and are making things for yourself not for work, I think doing it by hand is the way to go....

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