Cranberry Apple Cake

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Cranberry Apple Cake

This turned out really good, it's not sweet though. You can make it sweeter by adding a little honey to the fruit while you're cooking it.

1 pkg fresh cranberries
1 large apple (I've used Cameo and Granny Smith)

Core and chop the apple and cook it with the cranberries in a little water with about 1/2 cup sugar or honey. When all the berries have popped it's done enough. Let it cool.

Cream together:
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup dark brown sugar

When that is creamy add 2 eggs and stir till smooth. (You can add a couple of teaspoons of real vanilla if you want.)

Sift together:
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon

Stir that into the butter mixture, then fold in the fruit. Dump it into a greased baking pan (I use an 8" square Pyrex pan) and bake at 300ยบ F for about 45 min. The toothpick test determines doneness.
Serve with a little whipped cream, ice cream or whatever.

Merry Christmas

Anne in Lemitar NM where the snow has stuck since Tuesday night
(12/25/04)

Sourdough in the Bread Machine (advice and hints)

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Sourdough in the Bread Machine (advice and hints)

My DH bakes several loaves of sourdough a week in out breadmaker. He uses either the Basic program or the French bread program depending on how crusty he wants it.

He says:
  1. The starter has to be at room temp so take it out and feed it the night before baking.
  2. Put all the dry ingredients in the machine first.
  3. Reduce the quantity of the flour by the amount of the starter. He uses a cup of starter for a 1.5 lb loaf. Also, you will have to reduce the quantity of the liquid a bit - he says the only way to know by how much is to eyeball it.
  4. Add some yeast. The sourdough will not rise well without adding extra yeast. He says that figuring out how much yeast to add is something you have to develop a feel for and depends on your starter, type of flour used, added herbs, etc. so he can't say how much.
  5. Be sure to check the bread when your machine calls for this and add more water or flour as needed.
He's made regular white sourdough, wheat sourdough, rye sourdough, and herbed sourdough in the machine very successfully.

from Llyn
(12/3/04)

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