The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in baking on Sep 29th, 2011
What is it with the Damsel and cake lately? She’s always considered herself more of a pie girl than a cake eater. One possible reason: her friend Annette Lyon’s book Chocolate Never Faileth. The Damsel has been baking her way through this book and well, she’s got the jiggle to prove it. (FTC disclaimer: the [...]
Posted in baking on Aug 23rd, 2011
Y’all know about this, right? Pretend you’ve baked a cake or some brownies, and you’re either too lazy to make frosting or you don’t have time to wait for the cake to cool. (Frosting a hot cake is a sad, sad thing to do…the frosting melts and runs and makes a mess. A hot mess.) [...]
Posted in baking, guest post on May 24th, 2010
The Damsel is pleased to share this fabulously talented cook with you. These pretzels are definitely Grandma-approved. Good morning to everyone! I am Jamie Cooks It Up! and am happy to be guest posting today! I run a food blog full of family friendly recipes. Most of the recipe’s are made from scratch with a [...]
Posted in baking on Mar 24th, 2010
The Damsel loves presents. She recently received a box from Ann Clark Ltd., which is a cookie-cutter-making-company in Vermont. Awww! What’s cuter than a bunch of springtime-shaped cookie cutters? Making rolled sugar cookies is way old school. The Damsel has been meaning to do a post about them for a long time. She’s put it [...]
Posted in baking, Substitutions on Mar 15th, 2010
How many times have you skipped a recipe because it called for cake flour instead of all-purpose flour? How many times have you looked for cake flour at the market and either couldn’t find it, or cringed at the price? Could it be true that it’s really THIS EASY to make your own cake flour? [...]
Posted in baking, Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2010
The Damsel is a little annoyed at granola bars. They’re posers. They act like healthy food, but under that seeming innocence, calories lurk. Plenty of the ones you buy at the market are really candy bars, if you really want to be honest with yourself. These granola bars are not guaranteed to be low-cal, but [...]
It’s frustrating when you want to make cookies and your brown sugar is hard as rock. It’s enough to kill the whole cookie-making mood. Don’t worry. All is not lost. It’s not necessary to pack up the kids and head for the nearest market for a fresh bag. (If the Damsel had to do that, [...]
Posted in baking on Dec 11th, 2009
The Damsel can’t think of a more old school dessert than shortbread. This recipe is so simple, so basic. It’s easy to picture Great-grandma making this often, and not having to refer a printed recipe, either. You’ll see why the Damsel says that. So what is shortbread? It’s sort of a cookie, although it can [...]
Posted in baking on Nov 23rd, 2009
Okay, class, Thanksgiving is nearly upon us. There’s a whole continuum on how to do this, from extreme old school (go shoot a turkey, pluck it, roast it over an open fire) to packing up the family and going out to Marie Callendar’s for dinner. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle. The Damsel [...]
Posted in baking on Nov 17th, 2009
I asked the Damsel if she would like to know how we make homemade doughnuts on Halloween. It’s been a tradition in our family since Grandma Lola started making them and giving them out over 40 years ago. Sounded like a blog post, and so here it is. Grandma Whittaker’s Spudnuts 1 qt. Milk scalded [...]
