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Recipes and Techniques

Explore the world of baking with us, learn new tricks and skills, and discover some great new recipes.  Enjoy these links to new recipes and techniques.  Find more in each week's free newsletter.  (Click here to subscribe.) 

1. Fry Bread 
An indulgent fried scone recipe for home or in the outdoors.  
 
2. Salsa Poached Eggs
How to poach eggs in juice.

3. Canadian Cheese Bread
Take your favorite mix or recipe and fill it with cheese jellyroll style. 

4. Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Spread
A simple recipe that works well on bread or as a vegetable spread.

5. Apricot Butter  
A fruit spread for dips, pancakes, crackers, or bread.

6. Whipped Honey Butter
Our favorite honey butter recipe.

7. Texas Chili Corn Bread
A Mex-Tex type cornbread baked in a skillet.

8. New York Bagel Bread 
A huge, dramatic loaf loaded with onions and poppy seeds.  This illustrates the technique of braided breads.

9. Apricot-Orange Nut Quick Bread 
A great bread that demonstrates the muffin method for making quick breads.

10. Hamburger (or Sandwich) Buns 
Buns make the burger.  This will show you how.

11. Easy Focaccia 
Focaccia doesn't have to be difficult as this recipe shows.

12. EZ Cranberry Syrup
A quick and easy syrup made from dried fruit. 

13. Biscotti 
Ever wondered how biscotti is made?  This will show you how.

14. Banana Whole Wheat Scones with Honey Butter
A recipe for a healthier scone.

15. Using Bread Machine Mixes in Your Oven 
Use the dough setting on your bread machine to bake all sorts of breads and rolls.

16. Steamed Breads 
Steamed breads are cooked without an oven—great summertime or emergency fare. 

17. Apricot-Date Nut Bread with Caramel Sauce (Steamed) 
At home or in-the-woods recipe for a great dessert bread.

18. E-Z Sourdough Bread 
This is the easiest way to make sourdough bread that we know.

19. Baking with Squash 
Incorporate this super food into your baking repertoire.

20. Emergency Bread
What if you had all the fixin's but no oven—could you make bread?  This article will show you how.

21. Yo-Yo (Icebox) Cookies 
Detailed directions for an icebox cookie.  Includes the technique of embossing.