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7 Mar

I’d Love To Make Rugelach Or Schnecken – For You

Posted by Lynn in Baking, Tuesdays with Dorie. Tagged: Baking with Julia, Big Climb, Rugelach, Schnecken. 6 comments

All the delights of cream cheese were waiting for me when I hit the East coast at the age of 17: cheesecake, bagels with cream cheese and lox, and of course, rugelach –the subject of this week’s Tuesday’s With Dorie challenge (I know, I’m running a day late.) My freshman 15 was made of cream cheese.

I think of rugelach as a pastry, rather than a cookie – a rich, not-so-sweet- cream cheese pastry that almost melts in your mouth wrapped around a sweet jam filling. When I worked at Rosie’s we sold them by the pound – and I ate them by the pound too.

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21 Feb

Baking with Dorie and Julia

Posted by Lynn in Baking, Books, Tuesdays with Dorie. Tagged: Baking with Julia, Chocolate Truffle Tartlets, Tuesdays with Dorie. 8 comments

Challenges you define for yourself are luxuries. Training for a marathon, reading the Brothers Karamazov, writing a novel in thirty days or learning to bake a loaf of bread – it all falls under the category of luxury.

My new challenge is unquestionably an indulgence. I’ve joined the Tuesdays with Dorie baking group in their new incarnation – working their way through Dorie Greenspan’s 1996 book, Baking with Julia, the companion to Julia Child’s last PBS cooking series.

It’s going to mean a lot butter, flour, sugar, yeast and learning. And that I might finally make a decent loaf of bread.

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