Hey bakers and friends, Susan here. I know it’s been a while. I’ll cop to having been off on extended frolics and detours, pursuing other Life Goals and altogether neglecting both this blog and my sourdough starter. I’ll cop to not having baked a loaf (other than my perennial Thanksgiving Cranberry Bread) for almost four years (gasp!). And I’ll abashedly...

[Susan's note: I first published this post in 2010. Since then, we've all had a few more shakeups, and I continue to be thankful beyond words for the family and friends who break bread with me, on Thanksgiving and through the year. ] This is the recipe I said I would not post. It’s the recipe for the cranberry bread I’ll be serving for Thanksgiving...

I have long extolled the virtues of Stollen, the classic German holiday yeasted fruitcake, as not only one of the tastiest ways to get your holiday-bread-shaped-like-baby-Jesus-in-the-manger fix, but as an extremely easy and forgiving bread to make. This was evident when my colleague Susan and I were charged with making the Stollen for our baking school...

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There’s cornbread — spongy, sweet, and efficiently leavened with baking powder — and there’s Corn Bread: hearty and crusty, with the hard-won flavor than can only be achieved with yeast and time. And then there are these Corn Bread Rolls, which are fun to shape, if not precise replicas of the ears of maize that represent a bountiful harvest. Or little...

This post was originally published on November 19, 2009. May I recommend these for Thanksgiving breakfast? I like these pumpkin cinnamon rolls a lot. In case it seems like I’m damning them with faint praise, consider that I’ve spent the past two weeks in class redefining my relationship with butter. Brioche à tête. Brioche sucrée. More brioche à tête....