What are you baking today (2025)?

[badjak]

I baked sourdough bread yesterday.
Got enough maturing in the fridge for another batch + a seperate piece for pizza

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I've got a load of buttermilk in the fridge and I don't know what to do with it.

Bread

Recipe - Irish Soda Bread

 

[TastyReuben]

I've got a load of buttermilk in the fridge and I don't know what to do with it.
Would you eat this pie with something sweet, or something savoury?

Not answering for Barriehie (though I suppose I am ), but around these parts, buttermilk pie is a traditional dessert pie (sweetened custard-like filling), and very much prevalent in Amish cuisine.

 

[Barriehie]

I've got a load of buttermilk in the fridge and I don't know what to do with it.
Would you eat this pie with something sweet, or something savoury?

It's a dessert type pie so it follows dinner.

Recipe - Buttermilk Pie

 

[Barriehie]

Not answering for Barriehie (though I suppose I am ), but around these parts, buttermilk pie is a traditional dessert pie (sweetened custard-like filling), and very much prevalent in Amish cuisine.

Pretty big down here too. It was born of the Great Depression I read somewhere.

 

[Barriehie]

TastyReuben Has been posting pics of these ginormous pretzels he's been getting at Aldi's lately.

TastyReuben Pretzel

I decided to give it a whirl using a recipe from the King Arthur site and used lye for the dipping water instead of baking soda and water. I ended up, mostly since I hate half of them coming off the pan, with these.

Pretzel shaping skills to be developed but dang they are good! I'm going with one dipped in butter here in a minute...

 

[TastyReuben]

TastyReuben Has been posting pics of these ginormous pretzels he's been getting at Aldi's lately.

TastyReuben Pretzel

I decided to give it a whirl using a recipe from the King Arthur site and used lye for the dipping water instead of baking soda and water. I ended up, mostly since I hate half of them coming off the pan, with these.View attachment 128828

Pretzel shaping skills to be developed but dang they are good! I'm going with one dipped in butter here in a minute...

Those look great!

 

[Barriehie]

Those look great!

Thank you. I think I trashed my salt intake for a minute...

 

[Barriehie]

TastyReuben Has been posting pics of these ginormous pretzels he's been getting at Aldi's lately.

TastyReuben Pretzel

I decided to give it a whirl using a recipe from the King Arthur site and used lye for the dipping water instead of baking soda and water. I ended up, mostly since I hate half of them coming off the pan, with these.View attachment 128828

Pretzel shaping skills to be developed but dang they are good! I'm going with one dipped in butter here in a minute...

Somewhere in zooming about the 'net looking for methods and techniques for making pretzels I tripped over this guy's site and he has lots of recipes. JAS_OH1 there's lots of sourdough stuff there.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Somewhere in zooming about the 'net looking for methods and techniques for making pretzels I tripped over this guy's site and he has lots of recipes. JAS_OH1 there's lots of sourdough stuff there.

Yup. I've made some of his stuff before!

 

[Morning Glory]

TastyReuben Has been posting pics of these ginormous pretzels he's been getting at Aldi's lately.

TastyReuben Pretzel

I decided to give it a whirl using a recipe from the King Arthur site and used lye for the dipping water instead of baking soda and water. I ended up, mostly since I hate half of them coming off the pan, with these.View attachment 128828

Pretzel shaping skills to be developed but dang they are good! I'm going with one dipped in butter here in a minute...

They look fab!

 

[Barriehie]

They look fab!

Thank you! They didn't look so good this morning and then I remembered lye is hygroscopic so the surface absorbed water. They're not wet they're just not crunchy. Have to heat these.

 

[AdaptAndAchieve]

I decided to give it a whirl using a recipe from the King Arthur site

I do like that king arthur site

 

[JAS_OH1]

Thank you! They didn't look so good this morning and then I remembered lye is hygroscopic so the surface absorbed water. They're not wet they're just not crunchy. Have to heat these.

I really love a soft pretzel, though. I mean I like crunchy ones too, but I think I like the Amish soft, buttery pretzels better! Yours do look really yummy, though.

 

[Barriehie]

I really love a soft pretzel, though. I mean I like crunchy ones too, but I think I like the Amish soft, buttery pretzels better! Yours do look really yummy, though.

Thank you. They're really good in that was mostly dinner... Had to go buy more flour earlier so I can make another batch tomorrow.