Category Archives: Cooking with Ed
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
One of Uncle Ed’s favorites, cinnamon raisin bread. We wanted to make something I could take home for Jen, as a sort of peace offering for taking a 10 day vacation while she worked. That makes up for it, right?
- 1 cup warm water
- 2x 1/4oz active dry yeast pkts
- 3 eggs
- 1.5 cups sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cut soft butter
- 1 cup raisins
- 8 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp milk
For the slather
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- 3 tbsp cinnamon
Really, scald the milk, mix it all up, roll out into 3 even strips for 3 total loaves, slather in butter, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, roll it up tight, proof it right in the pan, and bake 45 min at 350. That’s it. A lot of ingredients but a simple product.
Biscuits
I had to enlist Uncle Ed in showing me the 1951 method of biscuits recipes from “the bible” of home cooking.
Standard Biscuits:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup shortening or butter
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt (I use 2)
- 3/4 cup milk
Sift flour, powder and salt, cut in butter and knead till smooth-ish, not all smooth. Roll out half inch thick and cut to size.
I really wasn’t listening when he told me not to roll them too thin. My first batch, plain hockey pucks. I’ll spare you the photos, just stuck with a half inch or more.
Onward and upward.
Parmesan Garlic Biscuits:
Standard biscuit recipe but a cup of shredded Parmesan and a minced whole garlic kneaded into the dough.
Jammers:
Standard biscuits but with a depression pinched in and baked with jam. Nothing to it.
