Mother's Christmas Bread

This batch came out a little lopsided but it's sure to taste good. This is my favorite Christmas bread, given by Bernard Clayton. Of it he says "I traced the recipe back to the Indiana kitchen of Mrs. Maude Smith, whose father's mother first baked…

English Christmas Bread

I haven't remembered to post pictures of the bread I'm baking, and the kitchen is in overdrive right now for the holidays. This bread is flavored with nutmeg and allspice, and it's studded with raisins and citron. I especially like the English tradition cited…

A Day's Work

Tonight's the regular meeting of a stroke support that I've been attending, and I volunteered to bring part of the snacks. (Seemed like a better idea when I couldn't possibly have known that baking day would fall in the middle of a heat wave,…