Rose Levy Beranbaum, a.k.a. author of The Bread Bible, has also tested this recipe and has a few suggestions and things to say about the bread. Among them being that she thinks you could just bake the loaf on a hot pizza stone on...

They smell weird.

Only if you want dense cakes and cardboardy pie crusts.

It’s in the boiling and the malt.

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers.

Based on the comments on a number of 'hounds, I recently purchased Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Pie and Pastry Bible, and have been in hog heaven just reading it. With the sour cherries in I decided to make my first outing with the...

Who wants to turn on the oven when it’s hot?

Will Owens finds that Gold Medal and other generic supermarket flour brands seem gritty; that’s because they’re made from hard wheat. The generic stuff is fine as a thickening agent, or for dusting, but mediocre for...

I just received today (from Amazon) Rose Levy Beranbaum's latest book, "Rose's Heavenly Cakes". I have not yet had a chance to look at it in detail, but there are some great-looking cakes in there !

Yes. It’s called "Roses's Christmas Cookies." I love the book, although someone recently called it old-fashioned because there was too much of an emphasis on chocolate. That’s not a problem in my life. I’ve made...

Here’s Rose Levy Beranbaum's wonderful one. For plain, just leave out the poppy seeds and lemon syrup. Great either way. http://www.thecakebible.com/recipies-lempopp-poundcak1.html

The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum

from rose's celebrations by rose levy beranbaum: mix 2 8oz pkgs cream cheese, 1/4c. mayo, 1/3c. grated parm, 2tbsp finely chopped onion, 1 tsp grated horseradish, 2 tbsps each finely chopped carrot and celery, 1/2 tsp salt. place...

I always use Rhode Island Greenings for pie. This year I used the recipe in Rose Levy Beranbaum's “Pie And Pastry Bible”, using the cream cheese crust, and following her directions for mixing the fruit and sugar and...

Rose Levy Beranbaum has a recipe for passion fruit curd in The Cake Bible (and probably in The Pie and Pastry Bible). It can be frozen so you could make it now for future use.