Category: Home Cooking

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Red Hot Beet Salad

This salad is so jam-packed with nutrients it’s hard to believe it could taste so good. It’s a meal in itself or serve with your favorite meat or fish.

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California Walnut Butter

Walnut butter is easy to make. Spread on crostini and garnish with a slice of fruit or fresh herbs for an elegant appetizer, or use it as a dip for crisp vegetables for a quick snack.

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What is Proofing The Yeast?

Some recipes, usually from older sources, call for a proofing step in the process of making bread. Before the modern ways of commercially producing yeast were figured out, it was necessary to check the activeness of the yeast before using it in a recipe to make bread. If the yeast was not active, the bread would not rise.

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