Me and Ollie's: Anadama Bread
One bread that I have grown fond of while living in New England is Anadama Bread. It is one of those regional breads that no one seems to be able to agree on the ‘real’ recipe other than it should probably have cornmeal and molasses in it. Having worked in the baking industry for the past 15 years I’ve accumulated a fair number of baking books, so in order to get a consensus on how this bread is made I pulled them all out in an attempt to find a formula. It turns out I had to dig pretty deep go…
Posted on: 2008-07-10 11:35:16
Bagels from Scratch Bakery
Scratch Baking Company is located in South Portland, Maine-not a locale known for its bagel making traditions. This current location is the bakery’s second home and is really a lovely space just off Willard Square not far from the beach.
Everything they do is really nice but they have become known around the Portland area for their bagels.If you are looking to make a traditional New York style bagel you can stop reading now, because this isn’t what you are looking for. What you wi…
Posted on: 2008-01-23 20:00:07
Spelt-Carrot Bread: B&R Artisan Bakers
There is no denying that the quality of bread is now quite good here is the United States, and has been for the last 30 years or so. I recently attended the Bread Baker’s Guild of America Camp Bread in San Francisco, where ‘campers’ (as you are called while attending) spent 3 days learning the art of baking from some of the best bakers in this country and abroad. Not surprisingly the experience level of most ‘campers’, a large percentage of whom either work in bakeries or are bakery owners, was …
Posted on: 2007-10-23 12:10:05
Albemarle Baking Co - Charlottesville, Virginia
There are few places in the mid-Atlantic region of the US that are more lovely than Charlottesville, Virginia. Pushed up against the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the climate is mild, the air is clear, and being a university town there seems to a perpetually positive vibe to the place. Approaching Charlottesville from Washington DC you pass through rolling farm land situated amongst the battlefields of the American Civil War.
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Posted on: 2007-04-30 19:32:21
Red Hen Baking Co. - Baguette
As you get to know us at straightgrade.com you will come to notice our obsession with the baguette. Certainly few breads go better with a meal, but our fascination with the baguette extends beyond its role on the table. The baguette is a perfect bread for testing and evaluating any number of the variables associated with bread making. At the risk of being a tad too anthropomorphic we’ll offer this thought: the reason the baguette is such a good test bread is that dough really doesn’t want to be …
Posted on: 2007-04-28 06:27:43
A Whole Grain Loaf from Standard Baking Company
The addition of whole grain breads and even pastries to the mix of bakery products has been in full swing for sometime now and may represent the only good thing to come out of the low-carbohydrate diet craze. For us at straightgrade.com, whole grains have always represented a must have ingredient in almost every bread formulation and not a recent ingredient trend. The reason is simple: they taste good, give nice texture to the finished loaf, lend great color and are good for you. Granted they do…
Posted on: 2007-04-20 21:38:39
