• 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt

Wet Ingredients

• 1 beaten egg
• 1 1/3 cup buttermilk
• 1 Tbsp cooking oil

In one bowl stir together dry ingredients. Combine the wet ingredients in another bowl. Add them all at once to the dry ingredients stirring until blended but slightly lumpy. Add additional buttermilk to thing the batter. Pour about 1/4 cup batter onto 325 degree griddle sprayed with PAM. Cook until goldenbrown, turning to cook other side when pancakes have a bubbly surface and slightly dry edges.

1 cup White vinegar
1 cup Cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Crushed red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon Tabasco sauce
Salt to taste
Freshly cracked black pepper to taste

To make sorbet, drain strawberries. Combine drained strawberries, 1/4 cup sugar, lemon juice, and yogurt in a blender, and process until smooth.

Pour mixture into 1-quart ice cream freezer and freeze according to mfgr’s directions.

This is a minor variation on a recipe from Razzle Dazzle Recipes.

Then place the following in the mixer bowl.

• 1 1/2 cups starter.
• 2 1/2 tbs. of butter cut into small cubes + enough milk to make 1 cup total. Warm this in the microwave, 30 seconds, stir, then heat 30 more seconds. I use the same measuring cup I used for the starter.
• 2 1/2 tbs. sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 cups while wheat flour
• 2 cups bread flour

Return the remaining starter to the frig. I don’t fool with it until the next time I bake.

Using the dough hook mix on speed 1 for 1 minute and then speed 2 for 4 minutes. It should form a nice dough that cleans the sides of the bowl. Remove the dough from the bowl, spray the bowl with PAM, and return the dough to the bowl to rise. Cover it with wax paper and allow it to rise at least until doubled. I’ve let it go as little as 2 hours and as long as 12 hours. Punch it down, shape into a loaf and put it in a bread pan. Allow it to rise for about 1 1/2 hours at 100 degrees or longer at room temperature until it is about one inch or so above the top of the pan. Bake at 325 convection for 32 minutes. Immediately remove from the pan and allow to cool on a rack.

When I make bread during the week, I stir up the starter, flour, and water in the evening and let it bubble all night. In the morning I make the dough and let it rise all day. Then when I get home from work, I punch it down, shape it, let it rise and bake it. It is cool enough by bed time to put away.

This recipe is a modification of one from “The Bread Machine Cookbook” by Donna Rathmell German.

Then place the following in the mixer bowl.

• 1 1/3 cups starter.
• 2 tbs. of butter cut into small cubes + enough milk to make 3/4 cup total. Warm this the microwave, 30 seconds, stir, then heat 30 more seconds. I use the same measuring cup I used for the starter.
• 2 1/2 tbs. sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3 1/2 cups bread flour

Return the remaining starter to the frig. I don’t fool with it until the next time I bake.

Using the dough hook mix on speed 1 for 1 minute and then speed 2 for 4 minutes. It should form a nice dough that cleans the sides of the bowl. Remove the dough from the bowl, spray the bowl with PAM, and return the dough to the bowl to rise. Cover it with wax paper and allow it to rise at least until doubled. I’ve let it go as little as 2 hours and as long as 12 hours. Punch it down, shape into a loaf and put it in a bread pan. Allow it to rise for about 1 1/2 hours at 100 degrees or longer at room temperature until it is about one inch or so above the top of the pan. Bake at 325 convection for 32 minutes. Immediately remove from the pan and allow to cool on a rack.

This recipe is a modification of one from “The Bread Machine Cookbook” by Donna Rathmell German.

Preheat oven to 375 on convection or 400 conventional.

• 1 cup wheat or oat bran
• 1.5 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup raisins or dates
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1/2 cup apple sauce
• 2 Tbsp oil
• 1 beaten egg

Stir together the dry ingredients. Stir together the wet ingredients. Add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened. Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake 16 minutes.

Blend all that up till smooth, pour into ice cream maker and freeze.

This is a variation on this strawberry sorbet recipe. which was also very good.

You can get it for the price of postage. Go to the page for the Friends of Carl and get your own. You send them an addressed envelope and a dollar for postage. In a few weeks you get back a plastic bag with a tiny amount of chunky white bits. Follow the startup instructions and you’ll have a very robust sourdough starter that makes great bread.

I make one loaf a week. The culture remains dormant in the frig all week, then on Friday evening I take it out, stir in one cup of flour and one cup of water and leave it loosely covered with wax paper overnight on the counter. The next morning it has bubbled up and is ready to go. I use recipes I’ve found on the web and in Donna German’s bread machine cookbook (I don’t use a bread machine but the recipes work fine). The one modification I made to her recipes was eliminating the added yeast. I let the starter do all the work. It takes longer but the taste is much better. The first rise takes about 2-3 hours and the second rise takes about 1.5 hours; 30 minutes of baking later, I’ve got a delicious loaf.

You can’t go wrong with Carl’s great starter.

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 tablespoon grated lemon zest3/4 teaspoon lemon extract
1/4 cup butter, cubed
3/81/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup golden raisins or dried cranberries
3/8 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon buttermilk
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 tablespoon chopped walnuts

1. In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and lemon peel.
2. With a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Mix in all but 2 tablespoons of the nuts and the raisins. Mix in buttermilk with fork.
3. Gather the dough into a ball and knead for about 2 minutes on lightly floured board.
4. Roll or pat out 3/4 inch thick. With a chef’s knife cut into 3 inch triangles. Place, spaced 1inch apart, on a greased baking sheet.
5. Brush tops with remaining 1 tablespoon buttermilk; sprinkle with the remaining sugar and the nuts.
6. Bake in center of 400 degree F convection oven about 13 minutes or until nicely browned.

Makes 6.

Modified by me from Walnut Raisin Scones by Eleanor Johnson.

From Sun-Maid Recipes

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup milk
1 beaten egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup Sun-Maid Natural Raisins

HEAT oven to 400 F (I used 375 convection)

COMBINE flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.

Using pastry blender or fork, CUT IN butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

COMBINE milk, egg and vanilla.

ADD to flour mixture; stir until dry ingredients are moistened.

STIR in raisins.

With floured hands, SHAPE dough into 8-inch round on ungreased cookie sheet.

SPRINKLE with additional sugar, if desired.

CUT dough into 8 wedges; slightly separate wedges.

BAKE at 400 F for 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm. (17 minutes seemed right)